Parenting Quotes · Page 239

“if you are successpul in life always respect your teacher and parents”

— Mazhar Zaman

Who wouldn't want Idris to play your father in a movie?

— Caleb McLaughlin

“How could a father wish you were dead, when he himself already died.”

— JohnEgreek

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

— Yancy Butler

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

— Michael Foot

My parents were supportive. I didn't have good grades, but they could tell I wasn't lazy.

— Bill Hader

Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.

— Amy Chua

O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!

— William Shakespeare

My dad worked for Kodak and was made redundant when I was about 14. Despite this, my parents did everything they could…

— Tom Fletcher

My father was a pilot in WWII and I have nothing but the utmost respect for anyone who answers the call to…

— Jim Justice

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time…

— Mike Krzyzewski

We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and…

— Dave Ramsey

Instead of trying to police the entertainment industry we should strongly suggest that parents take a stronger role in what their kids…

— Xzibit

There's only a few people in the country who have as much experience on the boxing scene as my father, especially at…

— Chris Eubank Jr

Once upon a time I owned a football club. It was one I grew up supporting, one my father had played for…

— Simon Jordan

In August of 1989, we arrived in Los Angeles where we had family. With their help, along with that of Jewish resettlement…

— Milana Vayntrub

“the Father is the primordial principle. However, in addition, the Son and Holy Spirit have their own unique principle as well. The…

— John G. Shobris

“Do you realize the cost they paid when they surrendered to their new Lord? No money, no job, no understandable future. They…

— James W. Goll

Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It…

— Laura Dern

I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that…

— Ally Condie

My father, in a way, was a mentor in the way he instilled the basic values and ethics in me. My mother…

— Chanda Kochhar

When youre a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend its really boring, but its not. Its enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing…

— Amy Poehler

I'm much more aware of how distraught my father could be internally. That was normal to me - the obsession with work,…

— Nicole Fosse

“I am Jon-Robert Holden - a basketball player, a son, a brother, a father, a friend, a writer and an Olympian!All these…

— Jon-Robert Holden

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.

— Antonia Fraser

I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

If my father was the head of our house, my mother was its heart.

— Irving Pichel

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

— Michael Curtiz

I always say, you never know how much your parents loved you until you have a child to love.

— Jennifer Hudson

“They say a girl with an ill-fated mother is doomed to follow in her footsteps.”

— K.X. Song

“May the Father judge him justly. Now, there's an awful prospect.”

— George R.R. Martin

Money can buy you everything except a father and a mother.

— Vikrant Parsai

Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

— Dakota Johnson

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.

— Dominic Cooper

Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.

— Nicholas Sparks

“Come on, Father. Stop me. Tell me to behave, to go to hell, something, anything.”

— Libba Bray

My father said that I was lower than a dog, because even a dog believes in God.

— Ari Shaffir

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

— Diane Lane

My father instilled attention to detail and a sense of duty and responsibility.

— Ronnie Corbett

My mother's father was the behavioral psychologist, John B. Watson.

— Mariette Hartley