Parenting Quotes · Page 213

“Our parents teach us the very first things we learn. They teach us about hearts.”

— Franny Billingsley

I would get parts and not be able to take them because my mother didn't have a car.

— Keegan Connor Tracy

Treat your parents with loving care. You will only know their value when you see their empty chair.

— AaRon CcHan

Climate change is the mother of all hysterias of the Left

— Dennis Prager

Each of us should appreciate what we have in our mothers. They are our teachers and our role models.

— Anonymous

My parents never pressured me except to advise me against acting.

— Emilia Fox

My mother, in particular, has been very disturbed and scared since my father's death.

— Bhushan Kumar

My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world.

— Maria Semple

“Oh my gosh, she'd cracked. Her mother was right. Too much Wonderland and sugar had finally rotter her brain.”

— Marie Hall

She is not just my biggest Fan, but she is the Love of my life, the mother of my Children, the special…

— Junior Dè Rèál Testament

I was very thankful that my mother was a very strong mom. She was mom and dad. She is mom and dad.…

— Ryan Frazier

My mother Reba Vidyarthi was a Kathak dancer while my father Govind Vidyarthi was a theatre personality. Later on, he worked for…

— Ashish Vidyarthi

What I was told is that I was born to a mother who was a Catholic, while her boyfriend was not. They…

— Mary Gauthier

When I was at the top, my mother was helping other girls. I thought it was a beautiful gesture and that I…

— Hema Malini

“And so my father changed his name to William Pretty and here he grew up and led an independent life. And if…

— Annie Proulx

My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the…

— Bob Cousy

The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked…

— Jodi Picoult

I believe in any kid's ability to read any book and form their own judgements. It's the job of a parent to…

— Sherman Alexie

“All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen…

— E.M. Forster

I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious! In 'Bambi,' the mother dies,…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

“Harry Belafonte explained: [T]he Second World War happened, and my mother told me that the fight against Hitler was our fight, and…

— Derrick Bell

“The Bible addresses two distinct reactions to hostility in parents: Fathers are told not to “embitter [their] children, or they will become…

— Henry Cloud

“The mother who understands her own intentions and her daughter’s intentions, who has introspection and a strong sense of self, and who…

— Susan Shapiro Barash

My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had…

— Quentin Bryce

You might be a redneck if your mother has been involved in a fist fight at a high school sports event.

— Jeff Foxworthy

As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.

— Rosalind Wiseman

I think of exercise as the father of the body and nutrition as the mother.

— Mandy Ingber

Never underestimate the power that comes when a parent pleads with God on behalf of a child.

— Max Lucado

Children deserve to be reared in a home with a father and a mother.

— Lance B. Wickman

I think about my father and how sad it was that he never had grandchildren.

— Cate Blanchett

Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.

— Bobby Darin

My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it

— Buddy Hackett

My mother was a stay-at-home mum and my father was an RAF pilot.

— Esme Young

My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.

— Mike McCue

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

— Jean Paul

Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.

— Shahrukh Khan

I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.

— Anonymous

My father was a lawyer. I was fascinated to become a lawyer, too.

— Sridevi

I can't stand films that make the kids out to be heroes and the parents to be imbeciles.

— Molly Ringwald

“Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan. [News conference, April 21 1961] ”

— John F. Kennedy