Parenting Quotes · Page 269

I want to thank the people who have always supported me, my parents, my brother.

— Iker Casillas

I love work, but no job could ever compare with the job of being a mother.

— Joely Fisher

“a mother, don’t you want your children to be better than you are?”

— E.N. Joy

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.

— Hermione Gingold

No man can ever repay the brooding mother love to which he his life.

— Gutzon Borglum

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter…!!!! A daughter is a gift of love...!!!!

— Pooja

“It's just lucky for Father he never had any sons. He might have been forced to respect them.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.

— Randy Susan Meyers

I have done everything I can to make sure my daughter knows her father because you form your own identity by rebelling…

— Greta Scacchi

“The scripture comes gently, as a mother comes to her child, so that we who can scarcely crawl on the ground are…

— Bengt Runo Hoffman

“People didn’t get nice by accident, did they? They had parents who were nice. Nice to their kids, nice to others. His…

— Jude Watson

There is no single individual greater than a mother. They are the great keepers of our society and heads of our households.

— Raheem DeVaughn

I Changed my ipod's screen today! :D and if my parents ask me who it is, I'm just gonna tell them its…

— Meeeee

My parents were South Korean immigrants who came to America in the early 80s for the hope of a better life for…

— Jonny Kim

“Here’s the mother of all misconceptions around VDI: People think that a VDI desktop is cheaper than a traditional desktop,”

— Brian Madden

My father, Ralph Fernandes, was a model before he became an interior designer. He was very supportive of my decision to become…

— Erica Fernandes

“Our personalities are often molded by how we are treated: if a parent or spouse is defensive or argumentative in dealing with…

— Anonymous

“If he was going to be given news about his mother, it had to come not in bits and pieces, but as…

— Haruki Murakami

[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood - learning about all these elements and aspects…

— Aisha Hinds

I'm the lucky father to two young men. When any of your kids, and your parents feel this way about you, clearly,…

— Peter Hedges

“The power to parent will be transferred to whomever the child depends on, whether or not that person is truly dependable, appropriate,…

— Gabor Maté

'Dad, Dad, I'm getting married.' 'Sh-sh, don't say it. Nothing, nothing. Don't do anything.' So he honestly - 'cause he was taught…

— Jeffrey Tambor

I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't…

— Mike Tyson

“Love is my mother. Joy is my sister. Knowledge is brother. Wisdom is my soulmate.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

At the very beginning, being a parent did impact how I go about this business.

— Noma Dumezweni

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

— Desmond Tutu

[On her mother, who died when Hutton was 4:] I hardly remember her, but I have missed her all my life.

— Barbara Hutton

“A mother to a reckless, feckless, one-off of a child—but what child isn’t?”

— Gregory Maguire

Children are not looking for perfect parents, but they are looking for honest parents.

— Howard G. Hendricks

I find that relationships between kids and parents are very interesting.

— Taika Waititi

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?

— John Green

I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it.

— Douglas Tompkins

“And his father has the gall to think I’d seduce a kid who uses Clearasil instead of aftershave!”

— Elaine Raco Chase

I did not know how popular my father was because we were not brought up as part of the industry.

— Kunal Kapoor

My mother doesn't really embarrass me. Even when I was young. She understands my career.

— Bow Wow

For mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Well son, your mother and I met on Twitter, then later we... NO DON'T LOOK AT HER AVI

— Nikhil Saluja

If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A word spoken in season, at the right moment; is the mother of ages.

— Thomas Carlyle