Parenting Quotes · Page 260

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

— Mason Cooley

A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

You like your father? How important is he to you? 'Appa' is about these emotions.

— Samuthirakani

Mothers shoulders are always there for children to take their weight.

— Kishore Bansal

I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife.

— Tionne Watkins

“There is no one who takes care of us as lovingly as our mother does. She is our living God.”

— Mohtasham Usmani

“Pouting is another nonverbal sign of displeasure. Kids use it to beg their parents to talk to them.”

— Jim Fay

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.

— Woody Allen

My father is always with me. But moving forward and making my father more proud of me is very important. Taking care…

— Gennady Golovkin

When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and…

— Dolores O'Riordan

Twitter allowed me to talk about parenting in short snippets and find out what I really wanted to say about it, which…

— Jim Gaffigan

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he…

— William Dean Howells

That was one of the most hurtful things, to have my mother see me in court and to have my mother see…

— R-Truth

I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest,…

— Miguel Indurain

I've definitely grown a lot as an individual, as a man, and as a father, and that perspective needs to be shared…

— Xzibit

“I realized right then and there, in that hallway, that I wanted no other... I became the man she needed me to…

— Steve Harvey

“Seventy-five percent of those who responded to our “Parents Who Cheat” survey reported that they felt betrayed by the parent who cheated.…

— Ana Nogales

My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixtyeight. My one sister is a motorcycle freak, my other sister is…

— Billy Carter

To parents who find a child's disclosure about sexual or gender identity challenging, I always urge what I'd call "moderated" honesty. If…

— Steven Petrow

My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really…

— Richard Simmons

My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in Montana. That…

— Steve Albini

“when our younger employees—those without families—work longer hours than those who are parents, we must be mindful not to compare the output…

— Ed Catmull

“To my great distress, I sometimes hear people say, in their zeal for fervency and efficacy in prayer, that we should never…

— R.C. Sproul

Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.

— Ellen G. White

Do you know why love is blind??? Because your mothers starts loving you before seeing you.

— Anonymous

Michael Jackson has a new baby boy; no word yet who the father is.

— Jay Leno

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia.

— Adelaide Clemens

My mother ran the home, but if we did anything naughty she would say 'Wait till your father gets home.'

— Maureen Lipman

My independent single mothers I respect y'all hustle!

— Deiandra

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

— Petrarch

My father was a minister, and my mother was a music teacher.

— Walter F. Mondale

Conscience is what your mother told you before you were six years old.

— Brock Chisholm

Adult started from child; Clever start from stupid; I'm start from my mother

— Anonymous

My parents pushed me toward trombone because they didn't need another trumpet player.

— Trombone Shorty

My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.

— Corrie Ten Boom

I grew up with my mother but still got some things from my daddy girl you'll see...

— Drake

I grew up with a single mother, and I wasn't out shooting too many guns.

— Jason Momoa

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

— Bill Cosby

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

— Patrick Rothfuss