Parenting Quotes · Page 328

You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece.

— Chuck Palahniuk

A happy family needs a loving and caring father, and he who knows how to be a mother sometimes.

— Anonymous

My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player.

— Marat Safin

I am not always a hands-on mother, but the feelings of motherhood are the same.

— Rituparna Sengupta

My father had a garments business in Delhi which shut down.

— Anupriya Goenka

“I believe in justice, but I will defend my mother before justice.”

— Camus Albert

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony

— Niccolo Machiavelli

“You attacked reason," said Father Brown. "It's bad theology.”

— Anonymous

After you're finished celebrating your 60th birthday, feel free to stop supporting your children, and start supporting your parents!

— Anonymous

When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to…

— Jeanette Winterson

“My father's subject: the relationship between history and the individual. He believes everybody is an 'excretion' of his or her environment. That's…

— Danzy Senna

“If they were honest, many parents would confess that their primary reasons for not allowing their child to quit something is because…

— Richard Blackaby

“Hero,” he said softly, in a manner that was much like his father’s. “Vengeance and glory are the ways of the Greeks…

— Sulari Gentill

Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge.…

— Kate Middleton

Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents ... A choice is only possible if…

— Germaine Greer

“in the wings, as often mothers and grandmothers are, ready to catch the children should they need saving,”

— Laura Whitcomb

“Now with this revelation, there comes to me a new sense of the divine overruling Power that shapes our lives. Do you…

— Pansy

My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips,…

— Ben Affleck

“Mr. and Mrs. Foster are not my foster parents. Also, they’re not even married to each other. Mr. Foster is married to…

— Jarod Kintz

I'm an only child and grew up in a bad neighborhood. My parents weren't well-off, but they would save up to get…

— Roy Hibbert

I grew up in uptown Jamaica; I went to a rich school. I was raised by my mother and my stepfather; they…

— Damian Marley

I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere.…

— Larry Hagman

The obsession with food filled my childhood - that's what happens when your parents are from a place or time where people…

— Diana Abu-Jaber

“Pardon me, but my father says that it is a lie that Americans have everything. You have no sheep, no goats, no…

— Robert Fulghum

“Her mother, buried. A town, lost. A small group of men, somewhere out there, cheering.”

— Hugh Howey

God Himself was crucified with Christ, for Christ was one with the Father.

— Ellen G. White

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

— Edward Coke

My parents, I don't know about 'strict,' but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know?

— Dennis Farina

Safe, for a child, is his father's hand, holding him tight.

— Marion C Garretty

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

— Jared Leto

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

— Kate Millett

Mother elephants in the circus cannot help their babies, but we can,

— Edie Falco

“I buried my father, married my sister and sorted the missing will. ' Quinn, the Celebrant Sleuth”

— Hazel Edwards

My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep

— Thom Yorke

The worst thing is the world is a defensive my-kid-can't-do-anything-wrong parent.

— Laura Schlessinger

For an Ethiopian mother, if you have a chubby kid, it means you're doing something good.

— The Weeknd

“Our parents gave us false inspiration about life, but one day you will find out why they did.”

— Jamile

My father believes that we create stars, and then others cast those stars.

— Pooja Bhatt

Becoming a mother gives me more of an incentive to care about the future.

— Desi Lydic

If you feel guilty after doin' something bad, it means your parents raised you well...

— Irvan F