Parenting Quotes · Page 333

“Parents have no idea how little they know about the people they gave life to.”

— Laura Tims

If you were shopping for a father, you'd have to take out a serious loan to afford mine. He's the best.

— Peter DeLuise

I was very young when my parents separated, and later, my mother remarried.

— Ishaan Khatter

My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

— Mukesh Ambani

I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.

— Amitabh Bachchan

What, at Peace with the Father, and at War with the (His) Children! It cannot be.

— John Flavel

“Her father was dying, and he wanted her forgiveness.”

— Nicholas Sparks

“Heavenly Father you are all I have got. May your unfailing love surround me.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever the explanation, it's perfectly obvious that our educational system has nothing to do with education: it's a babysitting service designed to…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took…

— Julie Andrews

You might be a redneck if your father encourages you to quit school because Larry has an opening on the lube rack.

— Jeff Foxworthy

As my mother says, You give back, you don't give up. You can always choose to help others. If you do, it…

— Susan Ford

My dad died when I was 17. He had heart and other problems. He was a good father, lots of love. But…

— Perry Bellegarde

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important…

— Dean Acheson

I trust parents to make the best choices for their individual children. In the Senate, I will fight for their right to…

— Katie Britt

“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults)…

— Richard Dawkins

“No doubt he was brooding upstairs in their bedroom, or perhaps in his study, wishing to God that he’d had the sense…

— Kathryn Smith

“Time passes, her mother said, peeling carrots. No matter what you do. No matter what happens, she said, crushing garlic, hammering the…

— Alexander Maksik

“Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and…

— John Steinbeck

Bad parents knock their kids across rooms, beat them with belts and cords, and slap them. Good parents resist the urge to…

— Anonymous

“Winter dark, five o'clock in the morning by the little gold carriage clock on the bedroom mantelpiece. The clock, an English one…

— Kate Atkinson

I have lived with my husband more than I have with my parents... I live beside him, and know his worries, his…

— Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of…

— Alice Walker

Henry Hays was cheated all his life. He was cheated by his father who taught him to hate. His community taught him…

— Anthony Ray Hinton

My favorite preacher is not with me anymore, and that's my father.

— Bernice King

Mothers can't go through the day without seeing their children smiling back at them...

— Leonora R Aquino

Being a son to the greatest parents of all is up there with hopefully being a decent friend to some.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

“They're your parents. They're meant to love you because . Never in spite .”

— Patrick Ness

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.

— Martin Parr

I have not met one living being that has not been the mother of all the rest.

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

“A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.

— Michael Cera

“... he paraphrased his father's favourite saint, Augustine: Lord, make my wife virtuous, but not yet.”

— Zin Murphy

“No mother’s nightmarish valley is so dark that Jesus cannot bear her burdens the whole way through.”

— Gloria Furman

I have played mother many times in south films. And I really have no problem with it.

— Priyamani

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

— Philip Levine

“Watching us, our father seemed to age another ten years.”

— Anonymous

Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size.

— Rebecca Goldstein

I think any family would, any mother would their children.

— Michelle Obama

My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.

— Dean Stockwell