Parenting Quotes · Page 377

Dad, because you are my father it's been easy to believe in God.

— John Walter Bratton

I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

— LaToya Jackson

I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children

— Sherman Alexie

My father left me when I was 6. My mother tried to take care of all of us on public assistance.

— Ghostface Killah

“you 'son of a fish' who does not even know his own father”

— Gilgamesh

“It’s Christabel,” Chris said finally. “After my mother.”

— Django Wexler

Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

— Jill Bennett

It's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers].

— Stephanie McMahon

As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work…

— Calvin Coolidge

“Parents owe their children a set of lofty standards and solid values which are best transmitted by the power of example.”

— L. Backman

I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my father,…

— Simon Kuznets

I've played many games for Iceland and my father before me, so I have a sense of what football means to people…

— Eidur Gudjohnsen

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on…

— Roy Blount, Jr

I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown…

— Kristin Scott Thomas

I have no doubt that I'd be a marvelous father. Maybe not when they're tiny, but when they're a little bit older,…

— Hugh Grant

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents…

— Anonymous

“Dads. Do you not realize that a child is what you tell them they are? That people almost always become what they…

— Dan Pearce

“This is what grace does. It rescues us from our spiritual blindness. It releases us from our bondage to our rationalism and…

— Paul David Tripp

All the Americans in the study were native born, but the height of the mother does affect the growth potential of the…

— Richard H. Steckel

“We'd already talked in the stacks, and I knew you were different from any other girl I'd met. And you told me…

— Julia Hoban

In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like…

— Roland Barthes

“Few doctrines throughout History have been able to eradicate hatred, most of them have simply tried to deflect it from one object…

— Amin Maalouf

My parents bought this vacant piece of land overlooking Lake Huron in southwestern Ontario the year I was born, and it became…

— Noah Reid

Most moms and dads, they want to be good moms and dads. But it's an incredibly hard job when you are stressed…

— Nicholas Kristof

“The task of being right is a task the father perfects over time.”

— Ben Marcus

Sex without Condoms is Magicalà_A baby appears &&àThe Father Disappears.

— Camille Cassie Govender

It's important not to forget today that mothers can also be annoying.

— Jimmy Kimmel

The awkward moment when Muary tells you, ''you are the father of her baby

— Isaac Morse

On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.

— Marlene Dietrich

I think it's helped me to have two unconventional parents, who have always encouraged me to be myself.

— Anoushka Shankar

Enjoy who you are. Dont hate yourself for what you arent.

— Anonymous

In the good old days, girls used to cook like their mothers, NOW THEY DRINK LIKE THEIR FATHERS.

— Nikhil Saluja

Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.

— Eugene O'Neill

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

— Alan Bennett

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

— Saint Augustine

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

— Mel Carnahan

“A child's duty is to become greater than his parents.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.

— Vanessa Redgrave

My parents supported me a lot, they always asked me to keep my options open.

— Mayank Agarwal

These lies are like their father that begets them, gross as a mountain, open, palpable.

— William Shakespeare