Parenting Quotes · Page 326

[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.

— Fran Lebowitz

“A young girl's mother is her natural refuge in every perplexity.”

— Elizabeth Prentiss

This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father.

— Swami Vivekananda

“The real Sallie has returned and her portrayal of Mother has disappeared”

— Nancy B. Brewer

Follow your own passion - not your parents', not your teachers' - yours.

— Robert Ballard

“That is a zombie… Holy fucking shit. That's a mother fucking zombie and this shit is real.”

— Diana Rowland

All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.

— Cathy Guisewite

“It’s nothing like your mother’s voice in your head to ruin the mood.”

— Bailey West

I think I've been brought up very well by both my parents. I am very cautious and I think I'm now fit…

— Lily Collins

I'm a very proud mother as Sanah has been getting lots of rave reviews. She has done good work and shown herself…

— Supriya Pathak

I'm from Cleveland. I don't have any famous parents. I don't have any media training, I don't have a history in the…

— Machine Gun Kelly

“Sullen Telemachus said, “Mother, no, you must not criticize the loyal bard for singing as it pleases him to sing. Poets are…

— Homer

My parents didn't allow rock music in the house. I actually didn't even know it existed until I was probably eleven years…

— Pat Smear

“Where one sees another, one hears another so long as there are two, there must be fear, and fear is the mother…

— Swami Vivekananda

“On quite a few occasions Liesel forgot about her mother and any other problem of which she currently held ownership.”

— Markus Zusak

If every parent knew that the best way to prevent lice from spreading is by looking for them, cases decrease dramatically.

— Stephanie Land

Cats are there to be indulged. That's their function: to receive the love we never fully gave our parents. Not like dogs.…

— Alex Shakar

“What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if…

— Scotty Smith

My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house…

— Michael Smith

For a party of the left to win, people have to have believe that government, the state, can be on their side.…

— Jess Phillips

“But his own mother had once said to him, in the period after his first marriage had ended when he was deeply…

— Rachel Cusk

My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have…

— Haley Barbour

After going to war against the U.N.'s expressed wishes, the U.S. is now admitting it needs the U.N.'s help. It's the geopolitical…

— Jon Stewart

The bonds that women share around the world, wherever we come from, they're very powerful and they have an ease of communication…

— Quentin Bryce

I'm the luckiest guy in the world to be my parents' son.

— Joe Buck

I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

— Gordon Brown

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

— Anna Godbersen

I idolized my father, especially as a young boy. He was bigger than life. He commanded the room.

— Lorenzo Lamas

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Oh Father, oh Mother, forgive us, for we know not what we do.”

— Edna O'Brien

If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.

— Ben Mendelsohn

“Parents should keep their kids engaged in positive activities as much as possible.”

— Malik Wade

Theres no time to discriminate, hate every mother f***er thats in your way.

— Marilyn Manson

He's not responsible for what he's doing, cause his mother made him what he is.

— Jerry Jeff Walker

I'm jealous of my parent's, Cause they have an amazing kid like me.

— Simpleman

If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.

— Ray Bradbury

About your daddy and your mother and your crazy ex-lover .

— Toby Keith

Women without children can help mothers, and we can just be all in this together.

— Sheila Heti

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

— Ernest Hemingway

I'm not a great father and there have been many occasions, when I fall short, but I'm genuinely trying.

— Rahul Dev