Parenting Quotes · Page 398

“Let parents then bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence.”

— Plato

“The children have to save themselves these days because the parents have no clue.”

— Richard Kelly

My parents are from the East Coast. We love the New England style.

— Alex Cooper

“How could a father wish you were dead, when he himself already died.”

— JohnEgreek

Who wouldn't want Idris to play your father in a movie?

— Caleb McLaughlin

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.

— Michael Foot

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

— Yancy Butler

O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!

— William Shakespeare

“If parents want “success stories” to share at gatherings they should provide themselves with those, and they should not use their children…

— Lukasz Laniecki

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them;…

— Confucius

I'm the youngest of four. I have two older sisters and an older brother and was raised by a single mother. Basically,…

— Little Simz

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear…

— Richie Havens

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the…

— Marlo Thomas

It's difficult, it's a fine line when you're a mother and a career woman because that's what we do, we do it…

— Maryse Mizanin

I am someone who tweets about what I have for breakfast, what I have for lunch, what I have for dinner, and…

— Jack Dorsey

Know that every mother occasionally feels "at the end of her rope." When you reach the end of your rope, don't add…

— Heather King

“Parents, she thought, learned to survive touching their children less and less. As a baby Pearl had clung to her; she’d worn…

— Celeste Ng

“When you’re the father of a little boy, which involves many joys, you do have one rationalization in your back pocket that…

— Wendell Jamieson

In order for me to parent well I have to empathize and stay open with my son. I am also vulnerable when…

— Amber Valletta

You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is…

— Carlos Castaneda

My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of…

— Dinaw Mengestu

My mother wrote a teen column for the South China Morning Post in the 1950s when she was growing up in Hong…

— Celeste Ng

After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [expletive deleted by the New…

— Janis Joplin

“According to my mother, I was a fiction writer before I'd written any ficton, by wich she meant not only that I…

— John Irving

Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.

— Amy Chua

My parents were supportive. I didn't have good grades, but they could tell I wasn't lazy.

— Bill Hader

I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

— Kristin Scott Thomas

If my father was the head of our house, my mother was its heart.

— Irving Pichel

My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.

— Antonia Fraser

How can such scary looking parents create something so cute?

— Chetan Bhagat

Have I got a mother-in-law. She's so neat she puts paper under the cuckoo clock.

— Henny Youngman

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

— Thomas Aquinas

Throughout his amazing life, my father played important roles in shaping U.S. policy towards China.

— Neil Bush

When you stop knowing your kids' business and who they're hanging out with, you have stopped parenting.

— Leigh Anne Tuohy

I grew up very active, and my parents made me try every single sport there was.

— Nina Agdal

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

— Louisa May Alcott

“if you are successpul in life always respect your teacher and parents”

— Mazhar Zaman

Coconut milk is the only thing on this planet that comes identically to mother's milk.

— Dick Gregory

Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive.

— Anthony Browne

Back-to-School Chats - Advice from Mothers to their Daughters

— George Bradt