Parenting Quotes · Page 369

There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told.

— Merle Haggard

My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman.

— Tory Burch

My parents keep telling me go and achieve my goal and make them proud everyday.

— Nikki Tamboli

My father has been by my side since I was little. He takes care of things, my finances and my family.

— Neymar

Where's Kanye West when my parents are giving me a 9376969675949 hour lecture?

— Anonymous

All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew.

— Maurice Sendak

If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.

— Quincy Jones

Parenting is not for sissies. You have to sacrifice and grow up

— Jillian Michaels

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to…

— Nancy Friday

To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.

— Willie Stargell

You shouldn't feel unsafe walking to school. It's where you should feel safe. Our parents should feel their children are going to…

— Madison Beer

“Raising teenage sons and daughters is a long and tiresome journey. With God's help the final outcome will be worthwhile.”

— Ana Monnar

“of all the things I'd either inherited or learned from my mother, the art of the lie was the most useful.”

— Megan Miranda

In an odd way, my parents were proud of me. When they saw me do stand-up, I'd see them looking around the…

— Lizz Winstead

You can't teach a son to be loyal if the father is not loyal. The same applies with the mother and her…

— Mercy Pheona

I see myself as part English and part American, with a dash of Irish thrown in, and a pinch of Italian from…

— Allegra Huston

“Coincidentally the couple who had endowed it had lived in her parents’ building. They had had an eight-year-old with a pretty singing…

— Anna Quindlen

“Regardless of what territory her parents had lorded over, if Celaena ever took up the mantle she’d lost, and if Terrasen ever…

— Sarah J. Maas

Every child has to disobey the father. Unless a child disobeys the father he never becomes mature. It is nothing, original, it…

— Rajneesh

A sense of solitude is one of the most beautiful things that parents can give a child. It doesn't mean leaving the…

— Henri Nouwen

“We are in the habit of saying that it was not in our power to choose the parents who were allotted to…

— Seneca

When my father would come home from his work at the Senate and talk about the things he could talk about -…

— Doug Liman

“Not quite like my mother’s, but still a real ‘trip,’” Bigfoot confided, “though what I really go for here is the respect.”…

— Thomas Pynchon

I met Roy's father once... And I think that Roy's relationship with his father is still at the heart of what Roy…

— Jim Lampley

Step parents are not around to replace a biological parent, rather to augment a childs life experience.

— Azriel Johnson

The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be.

— Elaine M Ward

I loved duping my parents; I liked manipulating them. It was a way for me to stand out. It was fun.

— Lupita Nyong'o

That traveling man was a two time lover, he took my love, then he took my mother.

— Dolly Parton

“to hear what you and my mother were doing last night. I think”

— Richelle Mead

To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says.

— Slavenka Drakulic

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

— John Connolly

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

— Horace

Having a baby changes your life, for sure, as most parents know. It changes in a good way.

— Gordon Hayward

My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

— Mary Badham

“Some mother in laws should eat their makeup so they can be pretty on the inside too.”

— Anonymous

Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for.

— Stephen Curry

Like other parents, I want my children to be comfortable in their adult lives.

— Charles C. Mann

Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. -NeSha

— Anonymous

The most important experience for learning to be a mother is your own mom's experience.

— Leslie Morgan Steiner

My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

— Pat Conroy