Parenting Quotes · Page 286

“quit trying to become a better parent and decided to try becoming a better person.”

— Glennon Doyle Melton

I must say that the first person to realise that I was talented in art was my mother.

— St. Lucia

I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

— Emily Giffin

In the ‘looks of disappointment’ department, my cat has picked up where my father left off.

— Tom Papa

There's a lot to live up to when three of your parents are successful in the music business.

— Aubrie Sellers

Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice.

— Anonymous

Be kind to everybody, be grateful, say thank you everyday. My parents taught me well.

— Nicole Richie

A father, son, husband or just a friend, a sense of responsibility best describes a person.

— Nikitin Dheer

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

— Tatyana Ali

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted…

— Rainn Wilson

I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically…

— Dwyane Wade

The life of a girl without parents who are like kites cutthe leaves in a whirlpool of wind conditions, which everyone wants…

— Mak_786

“Be as light as a feather and when they reach for you — you will blow right by their grip; you will…

— Bryant McGill

“But there is one cool thing about having a weirdo mother. She works so hard at remembering where she left herself she…

— Linda Vigen Phillips

I am certain that my family - my grandmother, mother and myself - had a credit score of zero when we arrived…

— Max Boot

“Grandparents are convinced they’re better parents than their own kids, whose lives they’ve already fucked up.”

— Garth Stein

“Jararaca” his father said. It was a pit viper, one of the most venomous snakes in the Americas. (A jararaca bite will…

— David Grann

I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar…

— Nick Nolte

“I have learned that the bitter, almost unbearable pain can become sweet as you turn to your Father in Heaven and plead…

— Shayne M. Bowen

A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having…

— L. Tom Perry

Few men in their 70s looked as good as my father did. What was his secret? Genes, maybe, since he didn't exercise…

— Jennifer Grant

I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that…

— Aleksandar Hemon

No one need worry about our getting the best of God in some bargain with him, or that we might somehow succeed…

— Dallas Willard

The first 13 years of my life, I lived in China. My parents were missionaries there, and I was an only child.…

— Jean Fritz

I remember hiding behind my mom at parent teacher conferences.

— Nav

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

— Sandra Bernhard

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

— Ziggy Marley

“Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are therir own”

— Aristotle

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

— Oscar Wilde

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

— Robert Kiyosaki

In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths.

— Mary Antin

“I would never trust her. Not one hundred percent. Not the way some people can trust their mothers.”

— Jacqueline Woodson

The worst feeling experienced by a girl is when her parents dont beleive her without doing any mistake

— Anonymous

I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.

— Aerin Lauder

Never date a woman whose father calls her princess. chances are she believes it.

— Anonymous

I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.

— Michael Reagan

A man can stop loving his wife. But he will never stop loving the mother of his children¦

— Shubham Joshi

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

— Anonymous

Other kids would take their parents to the toy store and I'd take my mom to the record store.

— Daron Malakian

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.

— Michael Leunig