Parenting Quotes · Page 283

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Abortion doesnt make you unpregnant it makes you the mother of a dead baby

— Anonymous

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

— Annette Funicello

“What's life without risk," my father said. "Nothing but mauvais foi [bad faith]”

— Susan Hubbard

Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony.

— Quentin L. Cook

When I started, my mother was already an actress and I wasn't keen on being one.

— Supriya Pathak

“Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being.”

— Kittie Frantz

So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?

— Byron Katie

My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does,…

— Indra Nooyi

Very few parents keep up with who the top professors are or whose classes their kids are taking, partially because most undergraduates…

— Andrew Yang

That was very comforting to me to hold onto that belief, that I did have a heavenly Father who was watching over…

— Elizabeth Smart

Christopher Plummer showed this 14-year-old aspiring actor what acting really was. I idolized him as my film father, he was my role…

— Nicholas Hammond

Personally, I wear a lot of my mother-in-law's chiffons and my mother's silk. But when I buy saris for myself, then they…

— Sonali Bendre

My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, probably to drown out my whining for…

— Daphne Oz

“every son should have a chance to know his father, not as a child knows his protector, but as a man knows…

— Brian Staveley

I was focused on my career, so my father, brothers and sister went to places like Korea, Thailand, Malaysia.

— Yannick Bisson

My mother married again after my father's death - another Royal Air Force officer, and a very different kind of man. We…

— Philip Pullman

I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I…

— Al Jarreau

“Well,” her mother said, looking at the engine, “at least that’s still there.” “Do you know anything about engines?” Stephanie asked. “That’s…

— Derek Landy

“Though day, the crickets called in the grass; my mother’s singing rose from the camp. I lifted my arms; I could not…

— M.T. Anderson

“You know, Ed,’ the Father says, “They say their countless saints that have nothing to do with church and almost no knowledge…

— Markus Zusak

Those who submit like a child do it because they know that the Father wants only the happiness of His children and…

— Henry B. Eyring

“Of course, with my parents, my three sisters, and Colston already sharing that one room, adding me to the mix made it…

— Noah Galloway

I think I went through early years of my career sort of thinking, "Well, maybe I'm just not British enough." And I…

— Alfred Molina

The pride of a father can not be measured in a words.

— Juniorjk

One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents.

— Sara Shandler

My father was like an unpolished diamond - tough outside but warm inside.

— Harshvardhan Rane

“My mother used to say, “Fun is fun till someone loses an eye.”

— Frank Delaney

No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.

— C. S. Lewis

“No child ever became ‘good’ by being told that she or he was bad or by beating her/him.”

— Maddy Malhotra

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

— Clara Barton

“How in the world do you tellyour wife that her mother was born a unicon?”

— Bruce Coville

When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.

— Natalia Vodianova

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

— Orson F. Whitney

Any fool can be a Father, but it takes a real man to be a Daddy!!

— Philip Whitmore Snr

“No friend of my parents is a pervert. It's physiologically impossible.”

— Carol Plum-Ucci

“Tears slid down my cheeks. Their source must move closer to the eyes in mothers.”

— Janet Benton

I always had a strong support system. My parents always supported the stuff that I did.

— Jenna Ushkowitz

My graduation speech : I hate you all you mother fuckers, I'm out.

— Anonymous

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson