Parenting Quotes · Page 411

My parents were definitely encouraging with creativity.

— Yung Lean

I may be a young girl, but behind every young girl is a powerful father.

— Olivia Palermo

I know people voted for me only in my father's name.

— Naveen Patnaik

My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.

— Alice Hoffman

“I am, for the most part, who I am because my good mother was who she was.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.

— Molly Ivins

Growing up without a father figure is tough but still it only makes you stronger!

— Anonymous

When you become a parent, obviously it changes your life in so many ways.

— Jessica McDonald

I was so lucky because I started working very young. And my father was very wealthy and I didn't need to work.…

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

Parents should stop telling their kids about santa clause because it keeps them from knowing the true meaning of christmas.

— Anonymous

My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words

— Arthur Scargill

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the…

— Sidney Poitier

“I'm never going to see him again. There were so many things I didn't say, and after my parents… I swore I'd…

— Myra McEntire

It is generally admitted, and very frequently proved, that virtue and genius, and all the natural good qualities which men possess, are…

— Theodore Hook

“Because Ford never learned to say his original name, his father eventually died of shame, which is still a terminal disease in…

— Douglas Adams

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money…

— Mark Twain

The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's…

— Lionel Shriver

One of the things my parents told me when I was young was that I had to always do more than everyone…

— Serge Gnabry

“I wished my mother was here tonight, which is stupid, because it’s an impossible wish.” He shrugs and turns to me, drowning…

— Katja Millay

Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken. Sex is more than an act of pleasure, its' the ability…

— Joanne Woodward

“This child was well muffled up in a pair of man's trousers, but he did not get them from his father, and…

— Victor Hugo

I've seen my whole family struggle, with money, with relationships, with alcohol, and I thought there must be a better way. As…

— Kellie Pickler

“What do you want, Christian?” What did I want? To make her smile, to wipe away her tears, to hold her. To…

— A.L. Jackson

We all know who beats us down,cuts us down,tells us we're a bad parent, lies to us. The truth is this person…

— Bryon Sletten

The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.

— Jessica Valenti

From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.

— Chetan Bhagat

My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.

— Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I was my mother's favorite, but my - 'cause she worried about me the most.

— Neil Bush

Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.

— Patricia Schroeder

I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

— Angela Carter

I've always wanted to have children and become a father, without question.

— Kelvin Fletcher

Every parent wants their child to do better than they do.

— Steve Doocy

When you marry the right woman for yourself, remember your kids would also need a good mother.

— Terry Mark

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

— Jurgen Prochnow

“The heavenly Father knows all my faults. But still forgives all my sins.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.

— George Clooney

My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.

— Paulo Costanzo

“I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man!”

— Rebecca McKinsey

“When we think of our family, our spouse, parents, or children, let us see them as a gift from God.”

— Dillon Burroughs

Let's make this a special Father's Day by getting together to violently root against the Miami Heat.

— Anonymous