Parenting Quotes · Page 220

When I was born my mother was terribly disappointed. Not that she wanted a girl - she wanted a divorce.

— Woody Allen

My father was a religious leader in the community, and my sister is a pastor.

— Roger Ross Williams

Mother, being a pianist, told me how to play with my fingers on the piano.

— Cecil Taylor

(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.

— James Thurber

“Real Fathers are Solution Providers and not a part of the problem to be solved.”

— Fela Durotoye

I've been buried in IRAC so long, they should be paying my parents a military pension.

— Anonymous

A word of advice - don't invite your parents to the after-party at 4 A. M.

— Courtney Act

“Did you notice there aren’t any average kids anymore—only Gifted and Disposable?”

— Heather Choate Davis

I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it…

— Soleil Moon Frye

“Son," his father said. "Run faithfully to the end, and like all good men, you will die of having lived.”

— N.D. Wilson

If a studio is going to offer me the opportunity to invite my mother and grandmother and all my friends to visit…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother...…

— Bernice King

As soon as I could talk, I was bellowing at the top of my lungs. My parents couldn't get over how weird…

— Valerie June

My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the…

— E. L. Doctorow

I've never had a sense of entitlement. I saw how hard my father worked for his money, and it was always made…

— Ivanka Trump

“There was his father, looking totally different but exactly the same. “Hey, son,” his dad said, his voice bending in that weird…

— Patrick Ness

“It’s been said that the personal is political, and there’s no doubt that parenting is intensely personal. To argue against traditional ways…

— Alfie Kohn

“What are you doing?” I dropped the dress and whirled around. Stephen stood in the doorway of the closet, looking at me…

— Kim Harrington

“Recall that this is the first time that America truly had a “generation gap,” a chasm between parents and children. In previous…

— Dinesh D'Souza

My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know…

— Marlo Thomas

“In a rush this weekday morning, I tap the horn as I speed past the cemetery where my parents are buried side…

— Billy Collins

“She looked at me and smiled and said "Are you ready?" And I was. I finally was. I had never been more…

— Colleen Hoover

I was raised primarily by women. I had a mother who almost killed herself to survive, I had a sister who was…

— James L. Brooks

Normally an infant learns to use his mother as a "beacon of orientation" during the first five months of life. The mother's…

— Louise J. Kaplan

“I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther.”

— Walt Whitman

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

— Phillip Lim

“very few parents, in any age, are able to feel relaxed about the upbringing of an eldest child.”

— Andrew Cook

“Like a feather, I let you go. To where you belong.”

— Merlin Franco

I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.

— Thom Yorke

My father had a way of exposing himself, of showing weakness and still retaining his dignity.

— John Carter Cash

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality

— Iris Marion Young

My parents emphasized experiential learning - in my family, being adventurous was a sign of maturity.

— Ali Wong

You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

Someday I'd like to be a father, not of a human child, but something more reasonable.

— Dov Davidoff

I'm an only child, and I'm very, very close with my parents, who actually live in Australia.

— Catriona Gray

If your mother cant find it, then its gone forever!..

— Anonymous

We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Begetting a child is at least as serious an act as murder...”

— James Agee

“A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother's womb!”

— Munia Khan

Darling, The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world! REMEMBER THAT!

— L RAE BROWN