Parenting Quotes · Page 249

My mother has a passion for mind, body, and soul. That's always been her thing.

— Cedella Marley

My grandfather couldn't stand either one of my parents.

— Mary L. Trump

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

— Zoe Kazan

“Youngsters tend to save the whole world while their parents struggle to save theirs.”

— Toba Beta

I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

— Jordan Peele

My father was a musician, so I feel like falling into this career was a bit inevitable.

— Dua Lipa

My parents always made me dress up for church. I really didn't want to.

— Amar'e Stoudemire

“My father used to say the seeds of the past bear fruit in the present.”

— Joe Abercrombie

“I sensed more than recognized the sound of those skeletal knuckles on the door. I was too young for it to be…

— Dan Skinner

If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage…

— Marian Wright Edelman

My ex-girlfriend said to me, 'I'm surprised at how normal you are since you were homeschooled.' But I was only homeschooled because…

— Reece Thompson

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It’s a mother’s job to give us the confidence needed to push through hard times.” — The Doctor’s Daughter: Totally heartbreaking and…

— Shari J. Ryan

“And it had left me with a certain skill for managing enraged werewolves, which was a good thing, my foster father had…

— Patricia Briggs

My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every…

— Amar'e Stoudemire

I have certain objectives. They're the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away…

— Indira Gandhi

It is not fit to be trusted at all: But the is too strong bitter truth:_:Today a father gives his daughter the…

— Mak_786

“I glance at Mom. She looks pained. I know she doesn't care what I wear to lunch, but she doesn't want to…

— Ann M. Martin

I rebelled against the Mormon Church by going to other churches. I rebelled against my parents by not eating meat. I rebelled…

— Bert McCracken

“It could not have been easy for Mother, an only child, to grow up without a father and with a mother who…

— Cornelia Maude Spelman

Until I became a parent, I thought children just naturally knew how to catch a ball, that catching was an instinctive biological…

— Dave Barry

As her parents, Aishwarya and I want our child to be happy and healthy. I was guarded from all this (media attention…

— Abhishek Bachchan

My father was a cotton farmer first and - but he didn't have any land or what land he had, he lost…

— Johnny Cash

As more women have gone into the workforce, they find it harder to be a good mother and a good worker. When…

— Carolyn Maloney

“Your mother's in here, Karras. Would you like to leave a message? I'll see that she gets it.”

— William Peter Blatty

Always respect your mother , because she is the precious lady in the world...

— Anonymous

Parents ought to try to learn the language teenagers speak, and they ought to listen to teenage music.

— Joey Heatherton

Yes, I always looked forward to becoming a father soon after our marriage.

— Nikitin Dheer

He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant.

— George Martin

My father was a keen photographer; he had his own darkroom.

— Grayson Perry

My parents have been married for 50-plus years, and I wanted to have what they had.

— David Furnish

Abortion in this country is not about protecting the lives of mothers.

— Mark Robinson

“Lena,” he says at last. “I think your mother is alive.”

— Lauren Oliver

Are essential for a good future for you every thing considered parents

— Mak_786

“The love of a foster mother for her charge appears absolutely irrational.”

— Winston Churchill

I always was passionate about science fiction and horror, and my parents enjoyed that as well.

— Jane Goldman

“I will always love my mother for who she is and everything she does.”

— Tammy-Louise Wilkins

My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.

— Oscar Taveras

Phil is my father. He's a part of who I am. But I don't want to be defined by that.

— Travis Knight

“Indeed, mother, you are always our helper." "For what else are we born?”

— Alan Paton