Parenting Quotes · Page 330

My parents kept me close to them. I even slept in the same room with them throughout my younger years.

— John Carter Cash

“What is your name?' Mother queried… Bear,' he said.”

— Regina Doman

the best compliment to a mother is to appreciate her little one.

— Anne Bronte

My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.

— Susan Straight

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

— Chris Hayes

My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write.

— Max Lucado

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

— Carrie Coon

“Blessings and worry, happiness and fear – this is a mother’s love.”

— Lisa See

Our parents were very generous, and they always encouraged us to find something we enjoyed and really get into it.

— Ellie Simmonds

I have a transgender nephew on my father's side of the family. So I'm extremely aware of how important it is to…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'd try to…

— Paris Jackson

When I was younger, trying to afford football camps, my parents would sometimes have to miss bills. They sacrificed these things for…

— Myron Rolle

“It has just been on the news that a man has been found in the Queen’s bedroom. Radio Four said that the…

— Sue Townsend

I've had a great family, great parents, sister and with my wife, I was lucky to meet her at a young age.…

— Nikola Vucevic

“The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112).”

— Saul Bellow

Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp.…

— Doug Davidson

“That night she admitted her compulsion to escape. She was worried that if my father drowned, or I disappeared, she would be…

— Simon Van Booy

“We grow up in a belief system according to which children should always make their parents proud and happy (instead of making…

— Lukasz Laniecki

“She talks to herself as she hollows out a stoneware bowl. She is saying something about containment. She talks to her dogs…

— Eula Biss

“Oh, no said her mother sadly. You know nothing of the pettiness of women. When brothers agree to split a joint family…

— Vikram Seth

I was very aware of the fact that I was a young designer, and I didn't want to fall into the trap…

— Emilia Wickstead

“Salk’s coworkers from Pittsburgh… had come expecting to be honored by their boss. A tribute seemed essential, and long overdue.” This was…

— Adam M. Grant

In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped,…

— Frank Crowninshield

I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world,…

— Lena Dunham

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

— H. G. Wells

My parents think I'm in love with my books buh I'm not

— Dopekidd

In fact, both my parents were doctors but I was a duffer.

— Chunky Pandey

My parents and my sister always leave me over New Year, so I'm always on my own in London.

— Amelia Dimoldenberg

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

“One summer my father accepted a request from Martin Grimm. Mr. Grimm was never seen around”

— Bryan Higby

I was just so fortunate to have parents who encouraged me to try things and do what I wanted.

— Andrew W.K

“not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children.”

— Diana Gabaldon

My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.

— George Kennedy

Trump must've been an extraordinary father to have raised well-adjusted kids.

— Mike Cernovich

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

— Bill Griffith

I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.

— Erik King

I swore to my parents that no one would ever be able to buy me.

— Sissy Spacek

I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.

— Robert Jarvik

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

— Bertrand Russell

For the weariest road that man may wend Is forth fromn the home of his father.

— Euripides