Parenting Quotes · Page 244

Honor your relationships by developing listening skills.

— Allan Lokos

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for.

— Mark Batterson

My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.

— Victor Cruz

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

— Quentin Tarantino

“He [my father] wasn't as bad towards me as he was to mum. Just absent.”

— John Larkin

And her parents were astonished: but he charged them that they should tell no man what was done.

— Bible

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

— Lucan

My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of…

— Ivy Baker Priest

You know your life has reached another level of sad when your own mother mocks you for being clinically depressed.

— Anonymous

Divorce is, of course, difficult for a child. I didn't go through it as my parents stayed together, but I have a…

— Elizabeth Hurley

Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the merciful Father, the God from whom all…

— Anonymous

Most of the things in your life are not in your control - the family you are born into, the parents, and…

— Rana Daggubati

Dads - and people in general - should keep in mind that we as mothers put enough pressure on ourselves. We don't…

— Mila Kunis

“Personally, nothing would surprise me any more. If my father announced that he was really a Russian agent or my mother ran…

— Sue Townsend

If I had to do it all over again, would I want my dad here? I would say no. Our world is…

— Bernice King

“The rest of the family looked on with a bemusement that, in the case of Rafa’s mother, occasionally gave way to anger.…

— Rafael Nadal

“We have indeed, felt the effects of the epic journey that has been our life. We have covered a lot of ground,…

— Connie Kerbs

“He had been there long enough to have treated most of their fathers and mothers, many grandfathers and grandmothers too, and recognise…

— Niall Williams

“We never are too old for this, my dear, because it is a play we are playing all the time in one…

— Louisa May Alcott

I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a…

— Lainie Kazan

I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time…

— Nikki Reed

In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way…

— Patrick J. Kennedy

“I always wondered, though, what the fathers felt as they drove up the street they used to drive down every night, and…

— Jennifer Weiner

“That was our parents’ game; it was too hard for children.”

— Tim Guest

In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death

— Albert Camus

There are ways of being abandoned even when your parents are right there.

— Louise Erdrich

“MOTHER' A flower of our Life's garden, which we don't wanna let it withers ever.”

— Samar Sudha

Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer.

— Arthur M. Jolly

I had good parents, and even though they weren't around, they were always an influence on me.

— John Rzeznik

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

— John Waters

My father is genuine and frank. I don't have to say that, because everybody knows it.

— Varun Tej

My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.

— Harry Mathews

“He was not happier at his mother’s nipple than in that ring of demons.”

— Clive Barker

One thing about me is that my parents didn't force me to be an athlete.

— Kamaru Usman

The fewer words a parent uses, the more aurhoritative the parent sounds & the clearer the instruction.

— John Rosemond

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

— Meryl Streep

Parents are one's companions in life but not partakers of one's karma.

— Munshi Premchand

My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“You understand. I don't know. I am not sure how I would feel in your shoes. My mother wanted me.”

— Donna K. Childree