Parenting Quotes · Page 329

I thought that once we were out of the baby stage, parenting would be a breeze.

— Tori Spelling

I used to watch Arsenal games with my father, and it has a special place in my heart.

— Matteo Guendouzi

Mother is the one we count on for the things that matter most of all.

— Katherine Butler Hathaway

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.

— Natalie Wood

my mother ... took the fact that my taste differed from hers as a personal insult.

— Merrill Markoe

There is no one, after God, who loves us as much as this most loving Mother does.

— Alphonsus Liguori

The more time we spend with Mother nature the more we fall in love with her.

— Anthony D. Williams

My father was a pioneer and a leader in the things he did and the way he did them.

— Anoushka Shankar

Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.

— Stephen Covey

“The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they…

— Oscar Wilde

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't…

— Joe Dante

“There’s probably nothing quite like the sweaty, nervous feeling of bringing home a stranger you had a lot of filthy sex with…

— Leta Blake

I grew up in beautiful Carmel, California, and I have extremely sweet parents that always loved nature and animals. They instilled such…

— Alison Eastwood

“It's not that easy." "I'll tell you what's not easy: finding out from Jean that Coach is your father," Neil said, and…

— Nora Sakavic

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a…

— Wernher von Braun

My father played five years for Valence in France's second division. I'd always cry when he would leave for training. Every morning,…

— Henrikh Mkhitaryan

Among many of my friends and acquaintances, I seem to be one of the very few individuals who felt or feels no…

— Joyce Carol Oates

My mother begged doctors to end her life. She was beyond the physical ability to swallow enough of the weak morphine pills…

— Polly Toynbee

“I advocate for fatherhood because of the trauma I experienced as a father. When I separated from my daughters mother, she literally…

— Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“More than anyone in that room, I was aware of exactly the sort of person who did such a thing. What I…

— Sarah Dessen

“Our deal's over," said Charlie. "I brought your feather. I want my brother. You took him. I want him back. Anansi's bloodline…

— Neil Gaiman

“Billy covered his head with his blanket again. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

“When you father dies! What then?" Lord Needham looked up from his pheasant. "I beg your pardon?" Lady Needham waved one hand…

— Sarah MacLean

If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around…

— Henry Rollins

I love being a parent, but it can be difficult for all kinds of reasons.

— Judi Love

It's very hard to be a family man, a father, a husband, an independent wrestler, and a police officer.

— Mustafa Ali

Approximately one out of every three children in the U.S. lives in a home without a father.

— Anonymous

My parents obviously have played a huge role in my success.

— Chase Elliott

Marriage is something women do when they forget what their mother went through.

— Vikrant Parsai

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.

— David Bowie

Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.

— Edward Albert

All my mother's sisters are matriarchs - there are big characters and opinions.

— Roisin Conaty

Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.

— Lemuel K Washburn

You know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular.

— Goodman Ace

It's Mother's Day, so a big 'Happy Birthday' to all you mothers out there!

— Mike Shannon

My mother was very keen I learn dance and I learnt so many forms.

— Asha Parekh

“Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.”

— Lisa Unger

My father was a tea planter and I grew up in different parts of Assam as his job took him there.

— Victor Banerjee

Inflation is the parent of unemployment and the unseen robber of those who have saved.

— Margaret Thatcher

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

— Elizabeth McCracken