Parenting Quotes · Page 229

My mother's the most special person in my life ... I consider her my MVP: Most Valuable Parent.

— Alex Rodriguez

I hope I can be as good of a father to my son as my dad was to me.

— Calvin Johnson

“Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry.”

— Susan Meissner

I'm a father now. I've got a beautiful kid. I'm a little more wiser.

— Dion Waiters

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

— Anonymous

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

— Eddie Vedder

“My father always said never offer a choice if there's only one right answer”

— Stacey Kade

My husband's parents were both English teachers for decades.

— Celeste Ng

“Love is the reason why my mother and father stick together in a hard life when they might each have an easier…

— Kao Kalia Yang

We need our Dads right now, we need strong fathers. I really want fathers to get close to their children.

— Cory Hardrict

My father was a man of principle who found his principles confirmed in the unremitting failure which they brought on him.

— Roger Scruton

We were surrounded by people who saw that in me. Milton Berle's mother told my mother, 'She has talent.'

— Leslie Uggams

With 'Selma,' I grew up in Alabama, 45 minutes away from Selma. I have gone to that commemorative march many times with…

— Andre Holland

All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter,…

— John Woolman

My mother picked my name with a spiritual intention: Destiny, 'what was meant to be.' She was a very special woman, and…

— Princess Nokia

Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast.

— William Blake

“During his next visit, my father secretly decided that our bathroom needed towel hooks. Using nails that were too long, my father…

— Firoozeh Dumas

This is the meanest thing anyone’s ever done to me,” I said, through my tear-clogged throat. “I want you to know that.”…

— Jennifer Weiner

When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn't take my mom out. They would go to the…

— Parker Posey

Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not…

— Jonathan Sacks

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck…

— Marv Levy

“If I were your mother, I would also warn you to beware of buildings that claim to be the houses of God.…

— Joyce Thompson

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother…

— Jane Austen

“We've also evolved the ability to simply 'pay it forward': I help you, somebody else will help me. I remember hearing a…

— Greg Epstein

I don't think my parents would be shocked about anything I did, because they're so laid-back.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers.

— Sheryl Sandberg

The Free Market is Mother Nature's way of organizing economic activity.

— David D. Aitken

“my mother never saw the irony of calling me a "son of a bitch”

— Jack Nicholson

“How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell.”

— Jarod Kintz

Is you Parents an artist? Because They Made you a perfect Master peace.

— NO VOICE

Unfortunately, I never knew my father and when I did, it was very briefly.

— Francis Capra

The first service a child doth his father is to make him foolish.

— George Herbert

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

— Tanya Tucker

“To be in charge as a parent means inspiring your children to motivate themselves.”

— Hal Edward Runkel

When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.

— Alec Baldwin

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

— Dan DeCarlo

There was just no good way for a dead son to greet his mother almost two weeks after his funeral.

— Rachel Vincent

Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart. -Lazarus to his mother.

— Elizabeth Hoyt

I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

— Martina Hingis

People always have to have a reference - I think I'll always be in the shadow of my parents.

— Eliot Sumner