Parenting Quotes · Page 397

“Some fathers give you life. Some show you how to live it.”

— Colleen Hoover

My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her.

— James Weldon Johnson

I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.

— Dominic Monaghan

There is Peter Graf, Steffi's father, with his head on his chin.

— Dan Maskell

Food, love, career, and mothers, the four major guilt groups.

— Cathy Guisewite

I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

— Carla Bruni

I've had two great loves: my mother and my daughter.

— Viv Albertine

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

— Jeannette Walls

I always try to have my mother's voice in my head, because I am very proud of the morals that she tried…

— Melissa Benoist

Most parents were, like, Little League coaches and all that. My dad was a wrestling fan. Instead of going out and playing…

— John Cena

When liberals start acting like they're opposed to pre-marital sex and mothers having careers, you know McCain's vice presidential choice has knocked…

— Ann Coulter

I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourselves. It's…

— Juliet Landau

“But it's a child ! You're a man !" "Your powers of observation are formidable," said Charles. "You are a credit to your optician.”

— Katherine Rundell

“I think that's why my parents can't even look at me anymore - they know they lost the wrong kid." - Jason…

— Sara Shepard

My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four…

— Bill Russell

The songs I write and the way I see the world have been affected a certain amount since I became a father.

— Gregory Porter

“We do not believe that the heavens are sealed over our heads, but that the same Father who loved and cherished the…

— George Albert Smith

Spending time with you just feels...right,somehow. Easy, like the way it's supposed to be. Like it is with my parents. They're just…

— Nicholas Sparks

My only real contact with what my father did was that he could get 16-millimeter prints, so every weekend we would show…

— Stanley R. Jaffe

We used to have prawn tempura: that was my mother's favourite dish. But she had to go out to work instead of…

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

“Heaven is my father and Earth is my mother and even such a small creature as I finds an intimate place in…

— Mary Evelyn Tucker

As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed…

— Lee Haney

I think our families or parents were trying to do best by us by telling us, 'Do what you love.' On an…

— Alissa Quart

The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs…

— Alison Gopnik

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

— Boris Pasternak

Sometimes I am so much my father's son that I give myself occasional creeps.

— Richard Burton

“Harriet’s parents had taken it for granted that family life was the basis for a happy one.”

— Doris Lessing

Happy Mother's Day, even though I pretty much raised myself.

— Anonymous

“My mother derives her worth from her relationship with Kenna, not from her social position.”

— Kristen Stieffel

That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day.

— Michael Chabon

“So,” she cut him off before the litany of his mother’s titles forced her to stab herself in the neck.”

— G.A. Aiken

Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.

— Homer

I think every person's parents teach them a lot and also mess them up royally.

— Penn Dayton Badgley

My mother took my brother and me, and we moved to Tucson.

— Ken Wahl

Being a parent is a weird juggling act - and nobody does it right. Everybody does it wrong.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

— Park Geun-hye

“Covarrubias began proclaiming, like Caso, that Olmec was the “mother culture” of Mesoamerica.”

— Michael D. Coe

Thanks to the wonderful support system provided by my father, I was never insecure about my future.

— Vivek Oberoi

My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

— Lena Dunham

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

— Elizabeth McGovern