Parenting Quotes · Page 339

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

— DeForest Kelley

Become what our Heavenly Father desires you to become.

— Dallin H. Oaks

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

— Simon Newcomb

What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.

— J. I. Packer

Unfortunately, some of the best fathers are mothers.

— Chris Gardner

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

— Benjamin Carson

Don't let yourself become so concerned with raising a good kid that you forget you already have one.

— Glennon Melton

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

— Alice Walker

You know, if your parents didn't have you, they'd be living in a nicer home, driving a Mercedes-Benz, with money in the…

— Richard Simmons

How parents interact with each child as he or she enters the family circle determines in great part that child's final destiny.

— Kevin Leman

“As long as the acquisition of knowledge is rendered habitually repugnant, so long will there be a prevailing tendency to discontinue it…

— Herbert Spencer

My mother was the youngest of 11 kids and I grew up in her family's household. I was blessed to have my…

— Jameis Winston

Now, I come from a long line of narcissists. And I also have no kids - by choice - but I understand…

— Alice Ripley

Parenting is difficult under any circumstances, and in my father's view, to raise a morally upright and honest child, you sometimes have…

— W. Bruce Cameron

I won’t stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband is a doctor, just like I…

— Shelley Berkley

One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness.

— Fred Rogers

I'm kind of a mutt: My dad's Persian, my mother is Spanish, and I was born in Texas. Growing up, all I…

— Sarah Shahi

I grew up in a family that my father was a very, very, a person with so many ideas, so many new…

— Hafez Nazeri

We're vulnerable to repeating history, especially if we don't know what's driving us. For example, it may be a family tradition to…

— Harriet Lerner

“So when Mother goes away, baby feels that the one person who can make him feel right has completely disappeared, perhaps forever.…

— William Sears

Let those parents that desire Holy Children learn to make them possessors of Heaven and Earth betimes; to remove silly objects from…

— Thomas Traherne

“Grandma Donna passed the oyster stuffing and asked my father straight out what he was working on, it being so obvious his…

— Karen Joy Fowler

Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role…

— James Patterson

My grandparents on my fathers side come to America from Germany, so that made them, German-American. My grandparents on my mothers side…

— David Kreger

My mother may appear strict but she is quite helpful and encouraging.

— Esha Deol

My parents always told me be confident but be humble at the same time.

— Khris Middleton

I am here to tell you my father was right. You are a raging f..kwit. Now f..k off.

— James Packer

I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!

— Claudia Lee

On the average, older parents are more flexible, tolerant, understanding, and happy in child care.

— Benjamin Spock

Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.

— Nadia Bjorlin

I'm an actor, a husband, a father of two, and a full-time Avenger.

— Robert Downey, Jr

I am really looking forward to driving another of my father's car at the show in Rotterdam.

— Nelson Piquet

“MOTHER LOVE IS THE FUEL THAT ENABLES A NORMAL HUMAN BEING TO DO IMPOSSIBLE. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM”

— Anonymous

“How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?”

— Maaza Mengiste

At my parents house, there are three dogs. I've grown up with these four-legged creatures all my life.

— Abhay Deol

The most important educational vehicle in all life is a parent figure.

— Bill Cosby

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled

— Tom Berenger

I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like: I am the gay parent,

— Rosie O'Donnell

When I'm governor, mothers in need will be supported.

— Mark Robinson

“I think my mother could be beautiful, in a different world.”

— Veronica Roth