Parenting Quotes · Page 400

My mother always kept us involved in various types of art.

— Dante Basco

Don't talk about a rope in the house of someone whose father was hung.

— Colin Farrell

“Your mother must have been disappointed when the abortion only killed your conscience.”

— Hiroshi Sakurazaka

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

— Kate Atkinson

Respect For Women, Is one of the greatest thing a father can teach his son...!

— Anonymous

As a parent, I often wonder what I should be encouraging my kids to do for a career.

— Dominic Holland

Becoming a mother made me better understand how blessed I am to do this job.

— Bianca Balti

“I love my parents' murderer; I suppose I could love anyone.”

— Holly Black

“Mom: ''You could have neon green hair, and it wouldn't take away how beautiful you are,'' she said Clara: ''You're my mother.…

— Cynthia Hand

I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late…

— Diablo Cody

No matter how old we are, or whether they're dead or alive, we always want our parents to be proud of us.

— Laura S

“For people who dealt largely in dreams, his father was fond of observing, realtors were a surprisingly unromantic bunch, like card counters…

— Richard Russo

“Mother Goose! I have never much cared for flippant remarks, especially when others make them, and in particular, I don't give a…

— Alan Bradley

An emergency on the labour ward needs to be addressed within minutes or else lifelong disability or even death can follow for…

— Konnie Huq

Lynet scowled. "I’m just so tired of young knights wearing their father’s armor and dreaming romantic dreams riding up to their death.

— Gerald Morris

My mum was a lone parent at the age of 18, bringing up a son in the 1980s. The benefits system put…

— Wes Streeting

“Did the Führer take her (mother) away?” The question surprised them both, and it forced Papa to stand up. He looked at…

— Mark Zusak

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my…

— Andy Gibb

being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are…

— Anna Quindlen

No Child Left Behind taught us that parents, teachers and state and local leaders are more suited to address students' needs than…

— John Kline

“No, my eldest brother. He was named after our father. Our parents died when the Romans first invaded, and Stephano then became…

— Lynsay Sands

“It was because 'in 1776 our fathers retired the gods from politics.' The basic principle of the American Republic is the freedom…

— Joseph Lewis

“When ACOG (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) claims that home birth and midwives are unsafe, they imply that the women who…

— Jennifer Block

I've come to realize that making it your life's work to be different than your parents is not only hard to do,…

— Paul Reiser

The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.

— Swami Vivekananda

The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

“You cannot know what I do not tell you, yet you will be judged harshly for not knowing.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, 'Abba, Father?'

— Alexander MacLaren

I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father.

— Mavis Staples

Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you…

— Corbin Bernsen

The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.

— Pamela Druckerman

Without my parents and their love and support in my life, I would not be who I am or where I am…

— Nastia Liukin

My father wasn't in the picture. I never met him. But mom kept us together.

— Jason Taylor

“The best gift you can give to your kids is a happy marriage.”

— Ricky Shetty

The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.

— Denis Diderot

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

— Sandra Bullock

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

— Diane Lane

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

— Prince Charles

Mothers can undo any problem and clean up whatever mess you've made as best you can.

— Kishore Bansal

My mother's father was the behavioral psychologist, John B. Watson.

— Mariette Hartley