Parenting Quotes · Page 231

“I am still jealous that Phoebe’s mother came back and mine did not. I miss my mother.”

— Sharon Creech

My father Kakabhai Haribhai Shroff was an astrologer.

— Jackie Shroff

I rather be a single father, raising on my own. I'd hate to be a 'part-time' dad.

— Anonymous

Parents shouldn't tell their kids to dream big if they're stupid. Don't give them false hope.

— Nikhil Saluja

He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father.

— Saint Augustine

People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.

— Tom Hanks

I always looked up to my mother. My father was never around.

— Cedric Alexander

My upbringing is such that I feel my husband is superior to me and his mother even more superior.

— Sonia Gandhi

Mother told me always to follow the golden rule.And she said it's really a sin to be mean and cruel.So remember if…

— Hal David

Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to…

— Mario Puzo

If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with…

— Wayne Dyer

“Stories wanted to be read, David's mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world…

— John Connolly

My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

— Alan King

My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even…

— Anthony Hopkins

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of…

— John Woolman

I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean…

— Liya Kebede

“After my mother died, there wasn’t a day that went by that I didn’t think about her, didn’t miss her. Not just…

— Karina Halle

My father passed away when I was two, and my mother was just 22-years-old back then. So young and only soul to…

— Bharti Singh

“Carlos,” her mother said, her voice soothing, and Sarah wondered how her mom managed to sound so calm. “I know you wanted…

— L.A. Banks

“People see stories everywhere,” Regine says. “That’s what my father used to say. We take random events and we put them together…

— Patrick Ness

I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents.…

— Douglas Coupland

I'm not perfect, I'm not an angel, but I try to live a certain way because it brings honour and respect to…

— Mr. T

My son was so excited about me doing three roles, and Jo and my parents loved the craft work and visuals, and…

— Suriya

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

When we agree to be parents, we have to accept the good and the bad.

— Hilaria Baldwin

A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.

— Simon Soloveychik

One thing I know for sure - this motherhood thing is not for sissies.

— Jennifer Nettles

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

— Germaine Greer

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

— Damien Hirst

For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.

— Shelley Duvall

Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.

— Alistair Begg

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

— Dia Mirza

Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business.

— Jared Kushner

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

— Francis Bacon

“Get on before I blow you lose of your shoes and give your fathers cause to celebrate!”

— Stephen King

“I yelled, wishing that the ground would open up and swallow me – or better yet, my parents.”

— Helen Keeble

When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter.

— Emo Philips

My parents love each other. They work through their problems.

— Brian Austin Green

Thankfully I have an ecosystem of in-laws, parents and husband, who are my rocks.

— Chanda Kochhar