Parenting Quotes · Page 247

My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people youre with.

— Mario Van Peebles

Rise and shine all you gold diggin' mothers, are you too good to tango with the poor poor boys.

— Kings Of Leon

“I feel like I've lived numerous lives...and you can explore my incarnations through my works.”

— Laurel-Rain Snow

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.

— Luis Fortuno

It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents.

— Guy Lafleur

My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.

— Zach Anner

I grew up in a military family. My father spent 26 years in the Air Force.

— Darryl Glenn

My father, when he arrived in this country found it difficult.

— Chuka Umunna

“The primary purpose of prayer is to bring us into such a life of communion with the Father that, by the power…

— Richard Foster

I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the…

— James Pearse Connelly

My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things…

— Robert Parish

“Parenting isn’t about creating someone in your own image; it’s about giving them the clay to shape themselves as they see fit,…

— Mikki Brammer

“Our parents can continue to screw us up even after they die, and in this way, they’re never really gone.”

— Jonathan Tropper

“Many parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while thinking of something else.”

— Daniel Kahneman

For many, many years I wouldn't sing 'My Way.' It seemed pretentious for me to sing [my father's] song 'My Way.' Now…

— Frank Sinatra, Jr

I grew up in San Diego with immigrant parents, before the food blogs, before this kind of celebrity chef culture we know…

— Samin Nosrat

Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do…

— Corrie Ten Boom

Nico di Angelo came into Olympus to a hero's welcome, his father right behind him, despite the fact that Hades was only…

— Rick Riordan

“When Gertrude Stein came to Ann Arbor, my mother said that all she said was, a rose is a rose is a…

— Carol Emshwiller

“That there are such devices as firearms, as easy to operate as cigarette lighters and as cheap as toasters, capable at anybody's…

— Kurt Vonnegut

My father's vision was to see the Pilbara developed in a way that would benefit his beloved north, and West Australia and…

— Gina Rinehart

“On impulse, he asked, “Where are you from, originally?” “Originally? My mother’s womb,” she replied a little tartly, and his smile grew…

— J.T. Geissinger

“The lift of her heart she'd felt on the outcrop she now felt again, and it wasn't just love. She'd felt love…

— Ron Rash

Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior's] speech. Not an insignificant "have went" nor an infinitesimal "I…

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

Hey, my parents should be proud of me because I'm addicted to my phone not drugs!

— Anonymous

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

— Oliver Hudson

I was good in science in school and parents thought I would become a school teacher like my mother.

— P. T. Usha

In our culture, when the parents are having a tough time, the grandparents take care of the kids.

— Shannon Sharpe

“I had officially joined the cacophony of sick mother fuckers.”

— Betsy Lerner

Children are a bridge to Heaven. OR Heaven is under feet of mothers.

— Persian Proverb

“The closer I get to God, is the farther I get from this world”

— Tyler Banner

“I'm intelligent because my mother stood in the brain-line and not the train-line.”

— LORRAINE GOKUL

Sin hath the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages

— Thomas J Watson Sr

A Mother's dream is to raise up a child who will grow up and be a blessing to the entire world.

— Terry Mark

Mother is the bank where we deposit all our hurts and worries.

— Anonymous

The best aunts aren't substitute parents, they're co-conspirators.

— Daryl Gregory

From my father, I learnt kindness and how to talk straight.

— Mo Ibrahim

Get to work because Mother Earth needs you right now.

— Doreen Virtue

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

— Chita Rivera

Woody Allen - legally, ethically, personally - was absolutely a father in our family.

— Ronan Farrow