Parenting Quotes · Page 376

I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.

— Jerry Reinsdorf

Parents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school.

— Peter Breggin

Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Both my parents moved here from Argentina before I was born, so they were in a foreign country.

— Camila Morrone

Being a mother is not about what you gave up to have a child, but what you've gained from having one.

— Sunny Gupta

“Err, sorry Father Abbot. I tripped y'see. Trod on my Abbot, Father Habit. Oh dear, I mean…”

— Brian Jacques

“Cannot a human man love his father, yet not believe he is a good person?”

— N.K. Jemisin

My parents' marriage was, on an aesthetic level, very pleasing to behold.

— Lisa Jewell

“We spend the first 12 months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next 12 months teaching…

— Phyllis Diller

My father, Fukujuro, drove a cab and my mother, Itsuko, was a homemaker. My parents often took me to see Impressionist exhibits.…

— Takashi Murakami

He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and…

— Chanakya

I've got two parents, I don't ride around with guns, and I've never put my hands on a woman. But the only…

— Tyrann Mathieu

India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother…

— Will Durant

My earliest memory, and one of my favorite memories, is growing up in Hawaii and going to visit my dad's parents, my…

— Evan Mock

“My mother and father held hands. I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find…

— Anonymous

“They (parents) have been doing this (imposing their beliefs about life on you) since you were born. That’s more than enough to…

— Lukasz Laniecki

My parents always told me I'm beautiful the way that I am, and I never thought to myself that I needed to…

— Hayley Hasselhoff

“My father liked to wonder aloud whether the phoenix was re-created by the fire of its funeral pyre or transformed so that…

— Mohsin Hamid

“One of the ridiculously difficult things about raising children is that they are constantly developing and changing so that just when you…

— Amy E. Spiegel

~One surprise of motherhood for me was how little control I have. I thought it would be a blissful romance with me…

— Amanda Peet

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from…

— Justin Timberlake

I love thee, most lovable Lady, By the love which I bear thee, I promise ever to serve thee, and to do…

— Anonymous

Generations hence, parents will take their children to these woods to show them how the land must have looked to the first…

— Ronald Reagan

“The tiny bud the parents nurtured does not seem to have bloomed into the magnificent flower they expected. Parents feel as if…

— Valerie Porr M.A

“Independence isn't doing your own thing; it's doing the right thing on your own.”

— Kim John Payne

Parents should not let kids listen to my music if it's offensive. I wrote these songs for me.

— Kesha

Did your parents build knows you a swing facing a wall when you were a kid?

— Roddy Piper

I was not an ideal parent, and there were things that I did right and things I did wrong.

— Jimmy Barnes

“Can you become a man without becoming your father?”

— Hisham Matar

Happy Father's Day to someone who knew long before me that all the boys I brought home were jerks.

— Anonymous

Like I said on my bio on my webpage, I was born at an early age, I was close to my mother.

— Peter Jurasik

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

— Carl Jung

I will never understand how a mother can kill her own baby and not get away with it.

— Anthony Jeselnik

I always studied because I knew I had to. I needed to survive and take care of my mother.

— Maria das Gracas Silva Foster

I'm used to having strong women around me. My mother was. My wife is. I like their strong mentality.

— Sol Campbell

Any child who has lost a parent probably knows every single photograph in existence of that parent.

— Aisling Bea

And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children.

— David Neeleman

“She believed in her dream like a fabled virgin mother expecting a messiah.”

— C.J. Anderson

mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.

— Abraham Lincoln