Parenting Quotes · Page 392

“my father obsesses over everything current and cool to the point he can karaoke to Gaga,”

— Rachel Higginson

I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.

— Tim Kaine

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

My upbringing is such that I feel my husband is superior to me and his mother even more superior.

— Sonia Gandhi

I always looked up to my mother. My father was never around.

— Cedric Alexander

For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.

— Shelley Duvall

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

— Germaine Greer

One thing I know for sure - this motherhood thing is not for sissies.

— Jennifer Nettles

I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the…

— Martin Luther

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame…

— Albert Ellis

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the…

— Josef Albers

“I have discovered that if I can change the way I think about something, I can change the way I react to…

— Lysa TerKeurst

All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with…

— Margaret Atwood

All I want to do now is meet someone, get married, have a big family, be a good father. I have never…

— Gethin Jones

“Do you have any idea how humiliated I am to be related to such a man, much less to have to call…

— Josie Litton

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model…

— Art Alexakis

Dying in childbirth is something that's not new; it's been going on for ages, and so it's not something that people focus…

— Liya Kebede

“My father has the proper degrees and framed pictures on the walls, though they're mostly taped over with photos of children, family…

— Alex McKeithen

“There are moments in life that contain instant knowledge. The first time expectant parents hear their baby's heartbeat and realize the world…

— Vivian Lane

Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with…

— Frank Pittman

Some parents place undue priority on temporal and material possessions. Some are far less diligent in their efforts to immerse their children…

— Quentin L. Cook

Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the block - kick all the…

— Lupe Fiasco

“When you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your…

— Robert Sarah

I have great faith in 'ordinary parents.' Who has a child's welfare more at heart than his ordinary parent? It's been my…

— Haim Ginott

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

— Damien Hirst

Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business.

— Jared Kushner

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

— Dia Mirza

Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.

— Alistair Begg

When we agree to be parents, we have to accept the good and the bad.

— Hilaria Baldwin

A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.

— Simon Soloveychik

“I am still jealous that Phoebe’s mother came back and mine did not. I miss my mother.”

— Sharon Creech

Protect her like a daughter, love her like a wife, and respect her like a mother.

— Anonymous

My father always kept me in a very different world, a very simple world.

— Maurizio Gucci

People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.

— Tom Hanks

He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father.

— Saint Augustine

My father Kakabhai Haribhai Shroff was an astrologer.

— Jackie Shroff

I rather be a single father, raising on my own. I'd hate to be a 'part-time' dad.

— Anonymous

Parents shouldn't tell their kids to dream big if they're stupid. Don't give them false hope.

— Nikhil Saluja

You can't change who your parents are, and I would never want to do that.

— Ananya Panday

“A good mother is worth a hundred teachers. —Italian proverb Thanksgiving”

— Jane Healey