Parenting Quotes · Page 228

“[mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away.”

— Milan Kundera

Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.

— Theodore Roethke

“I was the alpha and the omega of my parents’ suffering.”

— John Green

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

— Les Paul

“Only you can know what's true for you. I'll help you get there.”

— Ann Davidman

Howdy, howdy, howdy. Never goodbye. Gonna see my mother, gonna see my father.

— Kim Burrell

I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.

— Chris Rock

Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.

— Kate Winslet

“And when you grow up one day," her mother would always add, " you might be lucky enough to be shot by…

— Carolyn Cohagan

“The Marine Corps is your family too. You may not have a mother here, but you have a shit pile of fathers,…

— Bud Rudesill

“I find in the Word a continuity, a way, or thought, or a scheme. He is a wonderful God, but a heavenly…

— John Wright Follette

My parents provided what they could but they could not buy football shoes for me. There was not any day where they…

— Victor Wanyama

We had a mother who could have been called a feminist. That's just how we were raised. Why do you have to…

— Ann Wilson

Its so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares,…

— Ruth Buzzi

Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it's the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if…

— Blake Lively

John 14:21) Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be…

— GODDEY WILSON

“With her parents modeling such brutal favoritism, Sallie joined right in.  She constantly belittled Tina and joined in with the taunts of…

— Kat Spencer

When I was 11, I moved to Los Angeles to live with my father and stepmother and my half brothers. I became…

— David Cassidy

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make...The nice thing about my…

— James Gandolfini

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off…

— Drew Barrymore

“May not and ought not the children of these fathers rightly say: "Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean,…

— William Bradford

“It was time to face the second hardest fact in her life; she had a dead mother, and a father who was…

— Alex Morgan

I remember telling my mom, 'Mom, I'm gay, but I'm not going to march in a parade or anything.' That's what I…

— Jonathan Groff

“Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that for me,…

— Trevor Noah

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!

— Kathleen Sebelius

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

— Christopher Eccleston

My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.

— Rodney Dangerfield

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

— Milton Sapirstein

Brother and mi father afi chop sugar cane. Pon the plantation under stress and shame.

— Capleton

I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work.

— Anonymous

“He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.”

— Robertson Davies

Children who get everything they ask for seldom succeed in life.

— Vikrant Parsai

My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.

— Ernest Borgnine

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

— Denis Diderot

Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?

— Alice Sebold

I became interested in fashion when my mother did a runway show for Thierry Mugler.

— Lydia Hearst

Men cause about as many problems as we solve, but there's no harm in being a good father to your child.

— Anonymous

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

— Mavis Staples

That bond between mother and son, it's so hard to replace.

— Helen

Changeing the tabs as fast as lighting when your parents burst into your room

— Anonymous