Parenting Quotes · Page 238

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.

— Michel'le

Diane von Furstenberg is an extraordinary woman. She's modern. She's a mother, a grandmother, a leader.

— Karen Katz

The Republican Party is the party of families, parents, and hardworking Americans.

— Katie Britt

James is made to be a father. He'll be a brilliant dad.

— Chloe Madeley

Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

— Alexander Pope

She's a serial kisser. I think her parents are French.

— C.C. Hunter

Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive.

— Anthony Browne

Back-to-School Chats - Advice from Mothers to their Daughters

— George Bradt

For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the…

— Lily Rabe

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the…

— Martin Seligman

My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference…

— Mark Hoppus

“I was so happy that my mother, father, and two brothers had somehow found one another. Perhaps my mother and father have…

— Ishmael Beah

Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and…

— Nancy Leigh DeMoss

What I love most about myself is that I have that same fire and belief that my father had in his eyes.…

— Aditya Narayan

“If an album or a video game exerts more influence on your child's mind, then you must ask yourself: what kind of…

— Lourd Ernest H. de Veyra

My parents are a wonderful mixture of bohemian eccentric, but also incredibly practical and not airy-fairy.

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

My father was very strong. I don't agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don't agree with…

— Anonymous

“We can’t do this here,” He said, kissing the top of my nose. “I don’t want to ruin my parent’s anniversary and…

— S.E. Felida

“Maybe when parents name their children they do it from the perspective of wishful thinking. Like when you go to a restaurant…

— Julie Buxbaum

“To a great extent, friluftsliv is made possible by the Swedish common law of allemansratten (the right of public access), which grants…

— Linda Akeson McGurk

My parents didn't know much science; in fact, they didn't know science at all. But they could recognize a science book when…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got…

— Jeff Vespa

The Chinese model calls for giving your kids very little choice - and I've come to see that you can go too…

— Amy Chua

I grew up in New York City during the Depression. My earliest recollections were of my parents talking about what they would…

— Stan Lee

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know.

— Maurice Sendak

A parent is there to help you all you life like no one else will.

— Aaliyah (K

My father wanted me to go into politics but I ended up on television.

— Conchata Ferrell

“A parent's love is unconditional. A parent's satisfaction comes with caveats.”

— Ron Fournier

My parents used to go ballroom dancing in their latter years, and it gave them so much pleasure.

— Anita Dobson

Kids have a tendency to switch off if their parents are multitasking.

— Rahul Dev

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.

— Amber Tamblyn

My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.

— Lillian Hellman

I grew up very active, and my parents made me try every single sport there was.

— Nina Agdal

When you stop knowing your kids' business and who they're hanging out with, you have stopped parenting.

— Leigh Anne Tuohy

Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

— Henny Youngman

How can such scary looking parents create something so cute?

— Chetan Bhagat

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

— Thomas Aquinas

Throughout his amazing life, my father played important roles in shaping U.S. policy towards China.

— Neil Bush

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

— Louisa May Alcott

Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.

— Dick Gregory