Parenting Quotes · Page 371

“Fair is the stick by which parents of more than one child are driven.”

— Gabrielle Burton

“It’s better to be the rooster than the feather duster.”

— Jimmy Spithill

“Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of children.”

— Dia Reeves

“All parents damage their children. This was their life together. Neglect. Violence. Silence.”

— Mitch Albom

“Our parents prayer is the most beautiful poetry and expectations”

— Aditia Rinaldi

Tell me,” Isabelle said.“Who it was. That my father had the affair with.

— Cassandra Clare

My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.

— Ahmet Ertegun

Many fathers go their entire lives without announcing how sexy their son's old girlfriends are.

— Mallory Ortberg

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

— Emily Oster

“Parents teach their sons all kinds of things, but they do not teach them how to find the woman of their dreams…

— Anonymous

My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in…

— Lorde

“At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel…

— Kelly Corrigan

Being a parent is a full time job. No matter what the profession, put your children first and god will see you…

— Anonymous

When people ask what it's like to be an only child, I say it depends on who your parents are. I was…

— Brett Kavanaugh

This is for the women that have to play the role of a Mother and a Father to their children, Happy Fathers…

— Nishan Panwar

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to…

— Harvey Keitel

The colicky baby who becomes calm, the quiet infant who throws temper tantrums at two, the wild child at four who becomes…

— Ellen Galinsky

“That's what this is about then? Some blasted grudge you harbor against my father?" She muttered something indecipherable beneath her breath in…

— Sophie Jordan

Parents write to me, or come up to me after shows and ask me 'How can we get our children to be…

— Jacob Collier

“But my child is strong-willed,” many parents insist. “When he decides that he wants something he just keeps at it until I…

— Gordon Neufeld

We perversely see mother love as the problem--when it is all we have to sustain us--rather than blaming the fathers who have…

— Frank Pittman

I think any teenager, any single parent household teenager growing up in New York City, will probably go through tumultuous years. I…

— El-P

Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for…

— Amy Chua

During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outsiders in their own country. And…

— Angela Bowie

My mother would be the person all of my friends would go to for advice.

— Tory Burch

Being a parent and having two young kids, I buy Blu-rays and DVDs all the time. It's like buying a toy.

— Rob Letterman

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

— Anonymous

My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.

— Mel Brooks

When I was a kid, my parents were happy to buy me clothes; they provided for me.

— Nick Wooster

In every Filipino family, the children always want to help the parents... that was my goal.

— apl.de.ap

When I get married I want a mother in law that will adore me and one that I'll actually like.

— Anonymous

Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.

— Burt Lancaster

I had to learn to respect the relationship my son had with his father outside of the three of us.

— Domino Kirke

Both of my parents worked incredibly hard, and eating out was a treat.

— Christina Tosi

“...'My father called me an enthusiast. I am enthusiastic about things. A lot of things.' - Mary”

— Joseph Monninger

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I know I'm gonna be the best mom ever! That's why I'm taking my time in becoming a mother.

— Anonymous

“Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.”

— Karen Blixen

Single motherhood is an amazing thing; it's a blessing.

— Kelly Cutrone

“The girl cooked the gruel, but her father provided the anger, the hatred. After”

— Simon Strantzas