Parenting Quotes · Page 275

“was at work in the mornings, my mother would was my”

— Mike Antheny

Dan Rooney was my boss, my father, my friend, my mentor.

— Bill Cowher

“A mother's love protects a child with far greater shield than armor.”

— Bruce Newbold

Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia.

— Mary Von Schrader Jarrell

Any DICK can make a baby, but it takes a MAN to be a father.

— Anonymous

My parents only had one argument in 45 years. It lasted 43 years.

— Cathy Ladman

I remember my mothers prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life

— Chiboy Amobi

“Father, help me to be the one to offer my hand to anyone who needs a little boost. And”

— Guideposts

Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“Stop using him, and start protecting him. I know he thinks he doesn't need it, but sometimes he does. Sometimes we all…

— Rachel Caine

“Unless Robbie and Chris wanted to her to be a surrogate mother, this would be her first and last pregnancy. She and…

— Koko Brown

Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents…

— Edward Abbey

All love - love of children, love of parents, love of God or life - comes out of making physical love. Without…

— Barry Long

I loved working with my brother [Beau] and my father [Lloyd] whenever that happened. I had a wonderful experience making "The Fabulous…

— Jeff Bridges

My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.

— Ayelet Waldman

“I'm very sorry about your mother, Flavia. I can't even begin to imagine how you must feel." At least the man had…

— Alan Bradley

“At first the lives of women frightened me. They seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers.…

— Alice Steinbach

“One day when I was fourteen, I told Charlie that I hated Mother. “Don’t hate her, Jo,” he told me. “Feel sorry…

— Ruta Sepetys

From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the…

— Louis Adamic

The greatest stumbling block for children in worship is that their parents do not cherish the hour. Children can feel the difference…

— John Piper

When I became a father acting sort of took the place of what I did in my free time and my children…

— Paul Bettany

I'm most proud of my kids, for one, and my family and my parents. Outside of that - what am I proud…

— Frank Oz

“When his father asked why A wasn't apple or B wasn't bird or C wasn't cat, young Ambrose explained that things didn't…

— C.S. Richardson

My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be crucified to…

— David Brainerd

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.

— Connie Sellecca

“Indeed!" he said coolly. "Well, who's the happy father? Ashley?”

— Margaret Mitchell

My father gave me these hints on speech-making: Be sincere... be brief... be seated.

— James Roosevelt

Never complain about your parents, could 't give you because its probably all they had

— Kevi

When I was about 18 or 19, I told my father that I want to be an actor, and he was shocked.

— Prabhas

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

— Dilma Rousseff

“Son, you think I had seven boys because I winked at your mother?”

— Nicole Edwards

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

— Jessica Hagedorn

Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

— Solomon

My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.

— Eleanor Catton

“Father continues to make the vulgar error,” she said, “that to a woman, love is her whole existence.”

— Paullina Simons

Family is based on mutual love of father, mother, brothers and sisters.

— Anonymous

“We all learn other languages through our mother tongue.”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“[My father,] A man who had been taught only to destroy found it hard to create.”

— Nadia Hashimi

Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. -Proverbs 1:8

— Bible

Every father thinks that his son is an idiot, but only my dad is right.

— Nikhil Saluja