Parenting Quotes · Page 236

“There are really places in your heart that you don't know exist until you love a child.”

— Ann Lamott

“He declared that ignorance was the parent of fear, that knowledge was power.”

— Kenneth C. Johnson

"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness

— Aeschylus

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.

— Gilles Duceppe

I did 'Daddy' when I was 17 years old. My father, Mahesh Bhatt, directed the movie, and he cast me.

— Pooja Bhatt

2 hour movie, 30 second sex scene. Guess which part your parents happen to walk in on?

— Anonymous

My mother is amazing. She moved from Surrey to London, taught herself English, and found a job.

— Kaya Scodelario

Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.

— Jon Krakauer

I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool…

— Mike Myers

My parents had this extraordinary circle of friends. My father would be photographing somebody every day, someone from the world of the…

— David Linley

John 14:6: Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

— Jesus

A lot of children don't find forever homes because they're on that special-needs list, even if it's because of something as simple…

— Katherine Heigl

Children are ready to learn when they are ready to learn, not necessarily when their parents are ready to teach them.

— Anonymous

Great mothers possess that unique ability to be open and honest with their children in the spirit of love.

— Anonymous

My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me…

— William P. Young

“I like my parents," Olivia said. Sebastian shook his head, "A concept so alien I think it must be unpatriotic.”

— Julia Quinn

“may be tempting to dismiss these findings as by-products of midlife rather than the presence of teenagers in the house. But Steinberg’s…

— Anonymous

I talk to my kids about my mothers energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and…

— Lemon Andersen

It [the Constitution] didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least…

— Barack Obama

“The portrait rattles and goes still. I wonder if the dream would do my mother any good. I wonder if all that…

— Lauren DeStefano

EARTH LIFE with its joys and sorrows is a necessary part of our eternal existence. Its purposes are to prepare us to…

— Alma P Burton

MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a…

— Christopher Hitchens

My mother was the first African-American policewoman in Seattle - recruited, actually - and she did it for only 2 years, as…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

“The struggle in Mr. Guppy’s breast and the numerous oscillations it occasioned him between his mother’s door and us were sufficiently conspicuous…

— Charles Dickens

“I put my arms around a trunk and squeezed it, then I lay down on my father's grave.”

— Sharon Olds

“A mother is the unmemntioable boundary that can never come fully clear.”

— Erin Moure

“The simplicity of life is universal. Mother Nature is a wonderful teacher.”

— Steve Leasock

“At first my father didn't like Art, but after he got to know him better he really hated him.”

— Joe Hill

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

— Gary L. Francione

Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

My mother took my brother and me, and we moved to Tucson.

— Ken Wahl

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

— Park Geun-hye

“So,” she cut him off before the litany of his mother’s titles forced her to stab herself in the neck.”

— G.A. Aiken

I think every person's parents teach them a lot and also mess them up royally.

— Penn Dayton Badgley

Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

— Homer

My parents are from the East Coast. We love the New England style.

— Alex Cooper

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

— Elizabeth McGovern

Thanks to the wonderful support system provided by my father, I was never insecure about my future.

— Vivek Oberoi

“Covarrubias began proclaiming, like Caso, that Olmec was the “mother culture” of Mesoamerica.”

— Michael D. Coe

My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

— Lena Dunham