Parenting Quotes · Page 359

“Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun”

— Lauren Myracle

Love is blind because your mother had beginning to love you without seeing you ...

— Anonymous

“Some fathers give you life. Some show you how to live it. Thank you for showing me how to live mine.”

— Colleen Hoover

I want to trace my father, could you suggest a good marker pen?

— Frankie Boyle

No joy in nature is so sublimely affecting as the joy of a mother at the good fortune of a child.

— Charles Francis Richter

My parents spent a lot of money so I wouldn't sound like I came from Queens. I went to speech class.

— Peter Marino

Sometimes I feel like the mother and the older sister in my house. And I'm neither one.

— Anonymous

I now know how uncomfortable most parents have it when they're having the sex talk with their children.

— Epifania Savea

College recruiting is a business and I would really tell parents and athletes, alike, to treat it as such.

— Billy Kennedy

Princess Anne is like her father. From her, you'll never hear a complaint of any kind about her upbringing.

— Gyles Brandreth

People have talked about a biopic on my mother. And I am excited about it. In such a short span, it was…

— Prateik Babbar

“Force your kids to pursue success and they shall be drowned into the abyss of characterlessness, but let them pursue excellence and…

— Abhijit Naskar

In 2011, my wife, Courtney, and I, with my amazing mother and sister, opened the Nantz National Alzheimer Center at Houston Methodist Hospital.

— Jim Nantz

“I think your mother loves Leo.” “I don’t know if she loves him enough.” “What would be enough?” “To give up on…

— Lorraine Heath

No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the…

— Ann Voskamp

My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was…

— John Hume

“their own grandchildren. Parents like Kate’s are so intent on protecting their kids from their brand of the midlife crisis—their regret over…

— Meg Jay

“When we found each other, I was very flabbergasted by his appearance. This is an American? I thought. And also, This is…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they…

— Jodi Picoult

The Bible is unfortunately unclear on a long list of moral and social questions and sex is one of them. On the…

— Steve Allen

For years before I became a father, I would try to spend as much time as I could with my friends who…

— Nick Flynn

My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to…

— Rachel Holmes

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a…

— Cornel West

My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the…

— Wong Kar-wai

“The ultimate gift from your parents will be 'FREEDOM’, freedom to chase your dreams.”

— Loknath

“Her father had been a mean, vicious asshole. Her mother had been a meaner, nastier asshole still.”

— Tim Stevens

Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

— Laura Fraser

I was a kid with a lot of dreams. And my parents encouraged me in every possible way.

— Srinidhi Shetty

I was raised by a single mother. We were definitely below the median income of our area.

— Aja Brown

“watched a father slap his 8-year-old son in the face. I watched Adam fall to the floor and”

— Tahereh Mafi

I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be.

— Sonia Gandhi

My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.

— Ted Cruz

My mother inculcated wisdom in us, and I want to preserve her wisdom in writing.

— Govinda

My father had it, my mother had it; we wanted to entertain people.

— Demis Roussos

My mother's prayers protect me. Negativity, nothing reaches me.

— Dhanush

My father looked like this serious guy but was actually a very kind person.

— Harshvardhan Rane

I don't start shooting off my mouth. I'm not like that. I'm a mother.

— Teresa Giudice

To some baffled parents youth is stranger than fiction.

— Anonymous

Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.

— Imelda Staunton

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

— Robert Breault