Parenting Quotes · Page 319

“He was not happier at his mother’s nipple than in that ring of demons.”

— Clive Barker

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

— Meryl Streep

Time may be money, but the best thing parents can spend on their children is not money, but time.

— Vikrant Parsai

“You understand. I don't know. I am not sure how I would feel in your shoes. My mother wanted me.”

— Donna K. Childree

My massive motivation in life is to make parents proud. But even that has to stop at a point.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Parents are one's companions in life but not partakers of one's karma.

— Munshi Premchand

There is a word sweeter than mother, home or heaven. That word is liberty.

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

“The sorts of movies my late father had been nuts about.”

— Ernest Cline

My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He…

— Damon Lindelof

Housekeepers, homemakers, wives, and mothers are fundamental social relations, which rest upon woman's characteristics, physical, mental, and moral.

— R. Heber Newton

Every so often, I'll look at myself in the mirror and go, 'You're a bad mother,' you know? Like, 'You're a bad…

— Phil Heath

“Wendell had looted the trust fund left to her by her grandfather and father, to the tune of six million dollars. And…

— Mary Kay Andrews

My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and…

— Ed Begley, Jr

Your creative life can continue to just turn inside out and evolve in ways that you can't possibly imagine, whether or not…

— Kathryn Hahn

But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young.

— Noah Webster

My father and I were really like a team. I mean, he was very supportive. He'd come to every single one of…

— Billy Eichner

Knowingly or unknowingly, every person has a particular role to play in their lives. When you are with your friends you are…

— Koel Mallick

I never considered myself as somebody in exile because, different to my father who, yes, was in exile because he left Haiti…

— Raoul Peck

“I'm taller than my father, and taller than two of the stones at Ban Drochaid ." "I meant in feet," she clarified.…

— Karen Marie Moning

“This is not my tragic backstory. I had a great childhood. My mother loved me. I never wanted for money or support.…

— Tansy Rayner Roberts

In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for…

— Roald Dahl

“Raise your kids and grand-kids not as strong men or strong women, not as good Christians, Jews, or Muslims, not as responsible…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Some children perceive their parents as inconsistently available. It could be because the parents are unavoidably focused on pressing life situations or…

— Leslie Becker-Phelps

“Fathers, you cannot delegate your duty as the head of the home. Mothers, rear your children in righteousness-do not attempt to save…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting.

— Pamela Adlon

“The child is torn apart when the parent part. - Nc Dash”

— Linda Greyman

“An obedient child learns from the example of an obedient parent.”

— Jim George

My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.

— Steve Harvey

Honor your relationships by developing listening skills.

— Allan Lokos

My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.

— Victor Cruz

Our Heavenly Father is far too wise and loves us far too much to give us everything we ask for.

— Mark Batterson

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer.

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death

— Albert Camus

“That was our parents’ game; it was too hard for children.”

— Tim Guest

Poverty, the mother of manhood. Also, the mother of prostitution.

— Lucan

And her parents were astonished: but he charged them that they should tell no man what was done.

— Bible

“He [my father] wasn't as bad towards me as he was to mum. Just absent.”

— John Larkin

My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

— Quentin Tarantino

Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer.

— Arthur M. Jolly

I had good parents, and even though they weren't around, they were always an influence on me.

— John Rzeznik