Parenting Quotes · Page 290

In his head, his mother said, 'People shout when they don’t have the vocabulary to whisper'.

— Maggie Stiefvater

My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.

— Junot Diaz

“What are you, your fucking mother?" ~ Mets *SkyWatcher* World W Z”

— Max Brooks

Did I become an entertainer because my father died and I wanted to be what he loved? I don't know.

— Gilda Radner

“... he paraphrased his father's favourite saint, Augustine: Lord, make my wife virtuous, but not yet.”

— Zin Murphy

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

— Philip Levine

I have played mother many times in south films. And I really have no problem with it.

— Priyamani

“No mother’s nightmarish valley is so dark that Jesus cannot bear her burdens the whole way through.”

— Gloria Furman

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks…

— Liza Minnelli

As a parent, I know I speak for millions when I say that every child deserves to grow up in a stable,…

— Todd Young

“Many men have children, but not many children have 'Fathers'. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills”

— Fela Durotoye

It's an extraordinary experience to encounter the two kinds of deaths of my parents, one violent and jagged, it hits you like…

— Mariette Hartley

“Social expectations about what constitutes a good or a bad mother haunt every decision, and the rise of the parental advice industry…

— Jessica Valenti

“I've thought of all the questions," said Father. "That only means you've stopped trying to think of new ones.”

— Orson Scott Card

Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of…

— Paul Hoffman

Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless he means to give them something better.

— George Muller

“My father was a stand–up man who, unfortunately, did not have anything to stand up for. An eternal conflict burned in his…

— Henry Martin

“The blaming of mothers for earning their living and neglecting their duties became a well-established principle. The fact that women had earned…

— Gabrielle Palmer

Having that little bit of breathing room to work, and not feeling like it's going to fall apart at any second, has…

— Will Sheff

[On her mother:] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign…

— Tove Ditlevsen

“Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe in princesses,…

— John Fowles

Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Just because things turned out badly in the end doesn’t mean that anything has changed in my relationship with my mother. Everything…

— Banana Yoshimoto

“The key is to understand that our children don't belong to us—they belong to God. Our goal as parents must not be…

— Voddie T. Baucham Jr

Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size.

— Rebecca Goldstein

“Watching us, our father seemed to age another ten years.”

— Anonymous

I think any family would, any mother would their children.

— Michelle Obama

My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.

— Dean Stockwell

My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.

— Heather Brooke

To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.

— Kapil Sibal

I'd like to buy my mother her dream home. Hopefully it will happen soon.

— Zulay Henao

“My parents called me Penelope because they clearly wanted me to have a terrible life.”

— Alison Evans

“Parents,’ said Harry, ‘shouldn’t leave their kids unless – unless they’ve got to.”

— J.K. Rowling

A mother for better future of their children from all over the world can hit

— Mak_786

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

— Ted Turner

Once, in third grade, we switched classes and nobody knew until our mother stepped in.

— Markieff Morris

I pray to God every night before I go to sleep to let her know I'm safe; kiss my mother on the…

— Wiz Khalifa

Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father

— Tony Randall

I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.

— John Henrik Clarke

“not when Riko was to Kevin what Neil's father was to him.”

— Nora Sakavic