Parenting Quotes · Page 321

I started out doing my mother's nightclub act, and I had stage fright.

— Carrie Fisher

My parents are good role models because they've worked hard and gave me a happy childhood.

— Anonymous

Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease.

— Bob Edwards

I don't know if a mother's love and a father's love is that different.

— Peter Hedges

A lot of times the father doesn't want to recognize the sons are growing.

— Shawn Porter

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

— Warren Farrell

We are never alone when we stand with our Father in Heaven.

— Thomas S. Monson

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

— Cy Coleman

Some of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on…

— Dwayne Johnson

“How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's…

— Robin Hobb

While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent…

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as…

— Elinor Smith

“As my father used to say: "There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to…

— Patrick Rothfuss

One time, this guy was bothering my mother, and me and my brothers had a stern talking with the guy and a…

— Mr. T

“My father sent him out to civilize the lost sons he’d neglected, but damn me if all I’ve seen him do is…

— Karen Hawkins

“Many things led to this day, for all of us. A forgotten son, a vengeful mother, a brother with a long shadow,…

— Victoria Aveyard

When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and…

— Kangna Ranaut

As any parent knows, part of your mind is always engaged - wondering and worrying that everything is okay and calculating all…

— Anne Michaels

Do not walk in the path of human reason, and resist the pressures that would project you into conjectures about the future.…

— Frances J Roberts

In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.'…

— Meinrad Craighead

“But his son hated him. He hated him for coming up to them, for stopping and looking down on them; he hated…

— Virginia Woolf

Though they themselves might be as surprised as their parents and teachers to hear it said, adolescents--these poignantly thin- skinned and vulnerable,…

— Louise J. Kaplan

All of us... anyone that's been in Fleetwood Mac, as far as I've been aware, has been seemingly pretty well brought up…

— Mick Fleetwood

“I think,” said my guardian, thoughtfully regarding her, “I think it must be somewhere written that the virtues of the mothers shall…

— Charles Dickens

My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“When my mother died I learned that grief can be a very private thing.”

— Glenn Meade

Children never say that their father is the smartest; instead they boast that he's the strongest.

— Patrik Baboumian

My mother was born in Switzerland, my stepfather in Canada.

— Susan Straight

“It always gave me a peculiar feeling to catch a glimpse of my parents' lives before I was born.”

— Robert Drewe

Everything you worry about as a parent can be improved by sitting down regularly with your kids.

— Laurie David

They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father."

— Emily Dickinson

“Hope, that fragile tiny feather of a thing, flew away.”

— Victoria Kahler

I think I am very proud that my father has inspired so many people through his work.

— Tulsi Kumar

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name

— William Shakespeare

I hate it when my parents tell other relatives my mistakes.

— Anonymous

“Amber’s father had once tried to sell her hand in marriage in order to settle his debts.”

— Bella Forrest

My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.

— Neil Diamond

“Heavenly Father, I put my hope in your holy word, thereof, I am happy.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“My mother always advised me not to trust a dead person.”

— Jayde Scott

My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn't the driven sort.

— Lemmy