Parenting Quotes · Page 267

My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

— Charlie Trotter

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.

— Earl Wilson

I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

— Tammin Sursok

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

— Laurence J. Peter

If your mother cant find it, then its gone forever!..

— Anonymous

We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Begetting a child is at least as serious an act as murder...”

— James Agee

“A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother's womb!”

— Munia Khan

The early years were more about learning than about acting. I had to carry on my father's work, which was a big…

— Azim Premji

Children are not their parents' property, but when the parents treat them like property, that is attachment, not love.

— ProudLesbian

If you want to become a mother, you can. I promise. It may not happen the way you think, but it's possible.…

— Faith Salie

One of Rani Ma'am friend told my mother, 'Thank you for taking birth' because of which we get to see this actor.…

— Vishal Jethwa

Baptize first the children; and if they can speak for themselves, let them do so. Otherwise, let their parents or other relatives…

— Hippolytus of Rome

“Parents aren’t so different from us kids; they just want some help from us when we can give it. I think kids…

— Terry Schott

Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted…

— Emma Goldman

My father told me all about the birds and the bees, the liar - I went steady with a woodpecker till I…

— Bob Hope

Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's…

— Carl Honore

The question is grateful to who? You would think grateful to Allah, but Allah didn’t mention Himself. So it could be grateful…

— Nouman Ali Khan

“Nate stares at his mother, who however looks just the same as she has always looked. It’s not only the revelation but…

— Margaret Atwood

“Here in Tibet live the people my mother taught me to love before I met them. We are family, and love has…

— Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just…

— Terry McMillan

“Being a parent is dirty and scary and beautiful and hard and miraculous and exhausting and thankless and joyful and frustrating all…

— Jill Smokler

“Nine months ago, my mother died. This was the saddest, most painful time of my life, but somehow unexpected laughter managed to…

— Meredith Spidel

You will not be asked about your culture in your grave. And you will not be judged based on your Father's last…

— Boonaa Mohammed

Darling, The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world! REMEMBER THAT!

— L RAE BROWN

“Children also need to love back, as research with severely depressed mothers indicates.”

— Steven Stosny

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

— Juvenal

“Unbelievable. My mother had the exact same mentality as my friends. When in doubt, be a bitch.”

— Kieran Scott

My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.

— Patty Jenkins

“Like a feather, I let you go. To where you belong.”

— Merlin Franco

“very few parents, in any age, are able to feel relaxed about the upbringing of an eldest child.”

— Andrew Cook

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

— Phillip Lim

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality

— Iris Marion Young

I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.

— Thom Yorke

My father had a way of exposing himself, of showing weakness and still retaining his dignity.

— John Carter Cash

You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

My parents emphasized experiential learning - in my family, being adventurous was a sign of maturity.

— Ali Wong

Someday I'd like to be a father, not of a human child, but something more reasonable.

— Dov Davidoff

I'm an only child, and I'm very, very close with my parents, who actually live in Australia.

— Catriona Gray

“Real Fathers are Solution Providers and not a part of the problem to be solved.”

— Fela Durotoye