Parenting Quotes · Page 327

[On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father.

— Princess Diana

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

— Salman Rushdie

If I could go back in time, I would give your parents a condom

— Green Monk

I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.

— Charlize Theron

I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

— Pamela Anderson

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

— Haley Reinhart

A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.

— Anonymous

I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe were all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.

— Vikas Swarup

“You don’t have to tell me good things about your mother,” he added. “I already know them.” “Do you?” He shrugged slightly.…

— Cassandra Clare

I'll try to be what Father loves to call me, a 'little woman,' and not be rough and wild but do my…

— Louisa May Alcott

My parents are proud of my achievements. They send articles to my grandparents in India. Everyone's happy I'm doing something I want…

— Isa Guha

“So now you've met my mother,' I say to Jase that night, leaning back on the roof. 'I sure have. That was…

— Huntley Fitzpatrick

It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.

— Ismail Merchant

Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream -- I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and…

— Phyllis Diller

I was always mortified.Didn't they know they were tying thier mothers to the ground? Weren't chains ashamed of their prisoners?

— Janet Fitch

I was raised with Eddie Fisher as a father and Connie Stevens as a mother. It was sort of hard for me…

— Joely Fisher

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of…

— Henry Louis Gates

If my mother hadn't laughed at the funny things I did, I probably wouldn't be a comic actor. After she had her…

— Gene Wilder

“Child think mother is my protector who save me from all bad , but what is , if mother herself throw child…

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

“In another life, another timeline, he would have cared as a son does for his mother. If she’d been born different. But…

— V. Theia

Some parents struggle to put food on the table. And plenty of women aren't getting the pay they deserve. While I don't…

— Chrissy Teigen

“I was thinking that if it really was my fault, if every reaction could be traced to an action before, then at…

— Shirley Marr

“This river is famed in atrocious song and verse; the most prevalent motif is one which attempts to make of the river…

— John Kennedy Toole

My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He's great. As he brought up me and…

— Christopher Reeve

Do you have it on your person?" my father asked. "Jesus" I replied. "My person has it in her purse.

— Maggie Stiefvater

There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.

— Anonymous

When I started making movies I was already a mother.

— Alice Rohrwacher

[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.

— W. P. Kinsella

Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life.

— Hillary Clinton

Children's lack of self esteem which they want to acquire and improve by becoming a father or mother.

— Anonymous

“He wanted away from Mireille’s parents, all these people who said one thing and meant another. “You”

— Roxane Gay

Hell is being stuck in a lift with Elton John and the Queen Mother.

— Ian Brown

To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

— Chad Harbach

I am from Los Angeles, and my parents are from Los Angeles.

— Travis Kalanick

I would definitely say I have my head on straight, but that's due to my parents.

— Davante Adams

My mother taught me that family comes first. It is engraved on my heart.

— Cung Le

How are you gonna grow up without a father, then have a kid and not be supporting your kid...

— Anonymous

I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.

— Eazy-E

“My father told us: The worst sin is Feeling Sorry for Yourself.”

— Mariam Cheshire

“People go through life eating lamb chops and breaking their mother’s hearts.”

— Eve Babitz