Parenting Quotes · Page 325

I can pick a lock. How do you think I got into my parents' liquor cabinet in middle school?

— Richelle Mead

Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.

— Bernice King

A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics.

— Allison Pearson

Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!

— William Wordsworth

I had a great family. My father was in the Air Force, so we were always disciplined, goal oriented.

— Thomas Jones

“Being single isn't a terminal disease." "Try telling that to my mother.”

— Alexandra Potter

I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

— James Vincent McMorrow

My mother asks me 'you really have to fight?' And I say that's my job, mom.

— Mauricio Rua

“Amory Blaine inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without…

— Wilma Rudolph

My parents always enforce the idea of never giving up upon all of my siblings and me, and I think that's something…

— Nathan Chen

My parents probably were delighted when I chose acting, because if there is one job in the world that is less financially…

— Josh O'Connor

Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.

— Brian Andreas

Growing up, I wouldn't say I was poor. But my parents, although we lived in a nice, middle-class home, they had their…

— Jay IDK

I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I…

— Ziggy Marley

I don't think being the only child of a single parent helped. I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then…

— Lauren Bacall

My father had a friend who actually had a hollow-body bass guitar and didn't work through an amp, but because it was…

— Robert Trujillo

Klaus Mann saw very clearly how different was his own (more liberated) form of homosexuality from the same-sex attractions of his father…

— Philip Kitcher

“He did not understand her. They were not the same. The garage, the trial, the old man with his head in his…

— Kelly Braffet

“Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and…

— Emmy Laybourne

At the age of six, I declared that I wanted to be an astronaut. My mother thought that was just fine, as…

— John M. Grunsfeld

“You are not a heretic, Dalinar Kholin. You are a king, a Radiant, and a father. You are a man with complicated…

— Brandon Sanderson

“Tess is a bit shy," her mother used to tell people in an audible whisper, her hand over her mouth. "Gets it…

— Liane Moriarty

There is something special and different about being a father to twin daughters.

— Ken Jeong

“Tell me how you are." "I'm fine, Mother." "No one is fine. Fine is a placeholder.”

— Marisa Silver

The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'

— Roger Goodell

My father will forever be the best man and the best human being I have ever known in my life.

— Melina Perez

Only a niche section of parents allow their children to take up courses on film and television.

— Amala Akkineni

I learned from my father that music is from God and the message is from God.

— Ziggy Marley

My true gods are my parents. I am what I am because of them.

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

“If I had a dollar for everytime my mother told me god had a plan I'd probably buy a new prada bag.”

— Naya Rivera

“The heavenly Father is the fountain of all living water.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

My mother played the organ in church at Georgiana, and I sat on the seat beside her.

— Hank Williams

“Mothers are the diamonds that God gave us when we were born”

— Michelle Geaney

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was safe, due to my parents, but the Boys' Club was a massive influence.

— Michael Carrick

My mother always said 'Don't bother other people.' I think that's good advice.

— Amy Sedaris

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

— Anonymous

My family supported me a lot and my father flew in to stay with me from time to time.

— Sunil Chhetri