Parenting Quotes · Page 301

“I want my Ala to look at her father and see a man, not a coward.”

— Clara Kramer

My parents are still here in Charleston, and I have a lot of family here, so it's great to be back.

— Khris Middleton

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

— Joe Strummer

Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.

— Cathy Rigby

Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.

— Jane Stanton Hitchcock

A father doesn't say, 'Don't go that way.' He says, 'ome follow me.'

— Judah Smith

As you get older, you realise your parents aren't these superheroes. They're actually people.

— Rumer Willis

“When people have a place to live, they become better parents, workers, and citizens. If”

— Matthew Desmond

Coming from a broken home, I wanted to be as sure as I could be that my kids would have two parents…

— Mariella Frostrup

I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration…

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your…

— Jane Wagner

My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington

— Julia Quinn

I come from a family of educationists and both my parents as well as my younger brother and his wife are teachers.

— Jaideep Ahlawat

Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn't mean their parents are criminal. It means they…

— Hedy Lamarr

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.

— Phyllis Diller

“A great human philosopher nearly let our secret out when he said that where virtue is concerned, "Experience is the mother of…

— C.S. Lewis

“This certainly wasn’t an isolated incident, but it is indicative of Jesus’ ferocious ambition to walk with His Father by trusting in…

— Eric Mason

The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him…

— Angelo Patri

It is only when we love God and Christ with all of our hearts, souls, and minds that we are able to…

— M. Russell Ballard

My mom spent every dollar she ever had on getting me modeling/acting classes when I was a kid. I'm really grateful for…

— Ian Somerhalder

Key relationships can become threatened when you start exploring your own path. This is true when it comes to relationships with parents,…

— Chip Espinoza

In the early '90s or so, I drove my father to Providence, Ky., his hometown, and he was pointing out, 'That's where…

— George C. Wolfe

“She asked me if Christmas was a particularly tense time and whether my father had ever hit my mother while trimming the…

— Camilla Gibb

“...my hope is that whatever it is you decide to believe about whatever subject, you have thought through carefully each of those…

— Michael Shermer

I like to say hip-hop was born when I was in my mother's womb.

— Black Thought

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.

— Sara Sheridan

My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

— Wilma Rudolph

“Even his mother, his own mother, had once accused him of being a snob.”

— Marcel Proust

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.

— Kevin Kwan

My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.

— Becky G

When I was young, I would make my parents breakfast in bed on Saturday mornings.

— Tom Douglas

The way Magnus’ breath had sounded, rattling in his chest, before he’d said his father’s name.

— Cassandra Clare

Parents really just need support and not to be blamed and not to have fingers pointed at them.

— Susan L. Taylor

“His mother was yet another indignity he was forced to endure.”

— Roxane Gay

“Mother used to say if you stood out in a rain like that; it would wash away your sins-”

— Nancy B. Brewer

Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

— Elizabeth Goudge

My grandfather, my mom's father, started what's now a fairly prominent Baptist church in Memphis.

— Christopher Eubanks

People go, friends leave, hearts move, parents stay, however God is always there to look upon.

— Anonymous