Parenting Quotes · Page 250

My dad played some guitar, and both my parents are fans of music and have huge record collections.

— Zacky Vengeance

“And which comes first? her unbearable mother is saying. What we see or how we see it?”

— Ali Smith

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

— Dominic Chianese

For a long time I was scared I'd find out I was like my mother.

— Marilyn Monroe

That nervous feeling when you're about to meet their parents for the first time...

— Anonymous

Trane was the father. Pharoah was the son. I was the holy ghost.

— Albert Ayler

“My mother is a homemaker now after being a teacher.”

— Abigail George

People think I must have pushy parents, but that's not the case.

— Troye Sivan

I'm happy being at City. I wanted to go to Porto before but my father said that coming here we would have…

— Kelechi Iheanacho

Mother Earth is the ultimate giver, she gives to all life, and yet takes in all the abuses of waste without complaining.…

— DrJames Dazouloute

I have a picture I keep in my wallet of my father's corpse... I keep that picture in my wallet to show…

— Doug Stanhope

“God the Father has made everything to depend on faith, so that whosoever has it has all things, and he who has…

— Martin Luther

What I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother…

— Celine Dion

I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack…

— Hugh Hefner

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking…

— Jodi Picoult

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance…

— Curt Sachs

“I know you're learning how to follow in your father's footsteps, and that's good, but when was the last time you went…

— Jen Calonita

See here, for our comfort, a sweet agreement of all three persons: the Father giveth a commission to Christ; the Spirit furnisheth…

— Richard Sibbes

A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and…

— Jeremy Taylor

I was impersonating people way, way, way early, as far back as I can remember. And I would do people on my…

— Fred Armisen

I remember being led to a shed by my father for the unveiling of a beautiful bicycle, equipped with stabilizers, on Christmas…

— Alexander Gilkes

My mother's feeling about men in general were always a bit of a mystery to me. She had difficulties in Puerto Rico…

— Rita Moreno

So how do you best respond when mental or emotional challenges confront you or those you love? Above all, never lose faith…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

When I was a deacon, my father took me and my older brother to general priesthood meeting in the Tabernacle. I remember…

— James E. Faust

Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow.

— Alison Bechdel

I am not interested in anyone and will let my mother decide about my marriage.

— Ankit Tiwari

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

— Charley Pride

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

— Gordon Ramsay

“Yes, it's true. Immaculate conception exists. I am the second coming of Christ. I have no father.”

— Nathan Wrann

I love my parents, and I want my mother to be president.

— Chelsea Clinton

I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?

— Sam Sheppard

My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

— Bonnie Blair

In my little way I am trying to contribute to the Mother Nature by doing some terrace plantation.

— Rituparna Sengupta

“Her mother bent close, the smell of whiskey and beer and sweat as familiar as any perfume to Kaye.”

— Holly Black

“Mothers. Can’t live with them, can’t hit them over the head with a board.”

— Katherine Allred

I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.

— Cardi B

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

— Giordano Bruno

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

— Tallulah Bankhead

“I don’t want to marry you,” Sansa wailed. “You chopped off my father’s head!”

— Anonymous

I am more like my mother, but I have my father's last name and I cannot do anything about it.

— Sooraj Pancholi