Parenting Quotes · Page 389

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

— Milton Sapirstein

Brother and mi father afi chop sugar cane. Pon the plantation under stress and shame.

— Capleton

I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.

— Chris Rock

Howdy, howdy, howdy. Never goodbye. Gonna see my mother, gonna see my father.

— Kim Burrell

It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents.

— Christopher Eccleston

My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.

— Rodney Dangerfield

Mothers who work full time - they're the real heroes.

— Kate Winslet

Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition!

— Kathleen Sebelius

My mother was cancer. She slowly destroyed everything around her. She produced two killers; me and my brother Joe.

— Richard Kuklinski

Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father…

— William Bennett

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you…

— Hugh Jackman

Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the…

— Lyle Lovett

“That was Hunter,' said Quinn as his father's footsteps faded away. 'I figured. Since he said to call him Hunter and everything.”

— Jennifer Sturman

My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, "All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night…

— Pat Conroy

Both me and my parents wanted me to lead a normal life, work in a normal '10 to 5' job and put…

— Soha Ali Khan

My mother became a big problem... She was a complete narcissist. When I broke free her narcissisticness came out and it was…

— Lady Colin Campbell

Ultimately, the forces of dictatorship and extremism robbed me of my mother, but she lives on as a symbol of hope, a…

— Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

My parents were willing to spend time and invest time in my hobbies, no matter how odd they seemed. When I was…

— Daniel Schwartz

“Cyrus’s father looked at his son. “Is that true?” Cyrus wouldn’t look at his dad, or anyone else. It was hard to…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“I'm still upset with my mother, though. And scared. If you lose me, I remember her saying when I was little and…

— David Levithan

My mother, on Sundays, used to prepare things to use during the week, like freshly made broth. It wasn't chicken stock or…

— Carrie Ann Inaba

“They hanged my mother. I watched her body swing from the lower branches of a silk cotton tree. She had committed a…

— Maryse Condé

My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy,…

— John Lithgow

“Looking at the mother, you might hope that the daughter would become like her, which is a prospective advantage equal to a…

— George Eliot

Men cause about as many problems as we solve, but there's no harm in being a good father to your child.

— Anonymous

Children who get everything they ask for seldom succeed in life.

— Vikrant Parsai

“He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.”

— Robertson Davies

I have so much admiration for women who are mothers, who balance family and work.

— Anonymous

I became interested in fashion when my mother did a runway show for Thierry Mugler.

— Lydia Hearst

Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?

— Alice Sebold

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

— Denis Diderot

My mother made me do all the housework as a boy. I still do it, even in hotels.

— Ernest Borgnine

“[mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away.”

— Milan Kundera

“Mother writes that the Americans are perfectly sweet, as are the Rocky Mountains”

— Eric Bishop-Potter

The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil.

— Sarada Devi

“What has become of the world, when children are looked upon by their parents as trophies to be won?”

— Donald Allen Kirch

I think some parents think, 'Oh, having kids is so beautiful; I want others to feel the joy I do.'

— Jen Kirkman

“Only you can know what's true for you. I'll help you get there.”

— Ann Davidman

“I was the alpha and the omega of my parents’ suffering.”

— John Green

Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.

— Theodore Roethke