Parenting Quotes · Page 272

I put as much thought into your Father's Day gift as you put into having me.

— Anonymous

One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.

— Rachel Zucker

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

— Lorna Luft

My mother traveled with me everywhere that I went until I was 18.

— Taylor Hill

Why do parents think it's so easy to get straight As?

— Katrina

I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

Certainty is the mother of repose, and therefore the common law aims at certainty.

— Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke

Being a parent means making unpopular decisions! Saying that doesn't make it easier though.

— Anonymous

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me…

— Barbra Streisand

My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they…

— Maria Karnilova

I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy…

— Lawrence Durrell

“I felt my health giving way, and being in a weak condition, I became an easy prey to sexual intercourse, and thus…

— Gabrielle Palmer

You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father.

— Sigmund Freud

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The best way to raise positive children in a negative world is to have positive parents who love them unconditionally and serve…

— Zig Ziglar

My father was the first black Secret Service agent. He wanted to get into the FBI but J. Edgar Hoover, who was…

— Daryl Davis

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents, so Wild at Heart was a wish come true. The…

— Laura Dern

All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now…

— Andrew Jackson

Today's Parenting Tip: Treat a difficult child the way you would your boss at work. Praise his achievements, ignore his tantrums and…

— Robert Breault

“Margaret quirked her lips, looking much like the imp their mother used to call her. "What flower would ye pick for Katherine…

— Paula Quinn

We no longer just take religious identity from our parents, so what's going on? Why are people going to this series, why…

— Bruce Feiler

A child who's been injured by a parent waits her whole life for some acknowledgment of the wrong that's been done, some…

— Lisa Unger

“The Children's Hour Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“A child is a best story teller if it is encouraged to do so. Parents shouldn't get confused between a lie and…

— Anurag Bhatt

I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. I'm a virgin. I go to school. And my mother is not yet satisfied.lol

— Christian Heggs

Found my son and his girlfriend naked in his room...sex-ed is so advanced now, they also give homework.

— Anonymous

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws (Les Regrets)

— Joachim du Bellay

I've got 'trust' tattooed on me, and I have a tattoo on my finger that's for my parents.

— Anne-Marie

“boys who had been born on third base and thought they hit a triple (as my mother often quoted),”

— Anonymous

“Wahoo's father had absolutely no use for creeps who beat on small animals, especially kids.”

— Carl Hiaasen

I think my mother would be very happy if I found a nice Welsh girl.

— Matthew Rhys

The Christian who does not feel that the Virgin Mary is his or her mother is an orphan.

— Pope Francis

My mother had a cotillion, but she wanted to be bohemian.

— Sarah Paulson

How you lose or keep your hair depends on how wisely you choose your parents.

— Edward R Nida

A baby on its mother's back does not know the way is long

— Ibrafad

“I don't know what I'd do if this wouldn't go father. Jack off for eternity, probably.”

— Karina Halle

Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“SLeeping is a time lost, staying with your parents it's the great time of depression.”

— Deyth Banger

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

— Roma Downey

Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.

— Stephen Covey