Parenting Quotes · Page 412

I grew up without a father, so I have to be on point for my kids.

— Lil Durk

“What does it do to a girl who knows her mother is a murderer?”

— Gillian Flynn

“But my father’s is closest. (Emily) A wounded hawk doesn’t bed down in a fox’s den. (Draven)”

— Kinley MacGregor

I was a good father. I was a nice guy, pretty good guitar player, and funny as hell.

— Steve Lukather

I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

— Audre Lorde

My parents had two rules: You had to go to college, and you had to pay for it yourself. So we all…

— Peggy Johnson

My mother is special to me. She understands me. She has no expectations from me.

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

“A Ph.D. big-shot professor. A mother who is a genius. And you shit in plastic bags. Unbelievable”

— Stuart Rojstaczer

I'm so tired of having strict, protective parents. There's a point where it gets annoying, and it's reached that point.

— Anonymous

“God put the wiggle in children and our job as parent-educators is to work with it, not take it out of them.”

— Pamela Read Von Gohren

Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou…

— Anonymous

And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult…

— Lisa Snowdon

There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand…

— A. B. Simpson

My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least…

— Arabella Weir

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for…

— Wilfrid Sheed

If a female wants to do a man's job, no one will stop her from doing it, but women have duties to…

— Fela Kuti

Asian parents, or a lot of parents in general, they have no idea what goes on in this industry. Mine were born…

— Manny Jacinto

I have a lot of special memories with my parents but my toughest one is, I had, as a teenager, a pretty…

— Max Lucado

I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

I always thought I was more of a mommy's boy, because she was charming, talkative, a great storyteller. But as I dug…

— Robert Lepage

“I pledge always to demonstrate respect for myself. I pledge always to demonstrate respect for my peers. I pledge always to demonstrate…

— Baruti K. Kafele

“I want to be the father I never had and the husband my mother was cheated out of. So if I have…

— Marissa Carmel

I grew up with a single mother, and although we didn't have a lot of money, she cared a great deal about…

— Mona Simpson

“In so many ways, Jesus turned people’s expectations upside down. Who could have imagined the Creator of the universe invading the earth…

— Mike Erre

I hope my over protective parents know that when I graduate, I'm doing whatever I want whenever I want.

— Anonymous

This view of the text comports with the all but unanimous understanding of the Founding Fathers…

— John Ashcroft

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.

— Martin Lewis Perl

That awkward moment when your having sex & your parents walk in.

— Anonymous

Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

— John Steinbeck

I'm chain smoking loud like it's a Newport. Dad wasn't around, my father figure was Too Short.

— 2 Chainz

In peace, sons bury their fathers but in war, fathers bury their sons.

— Anonymous

“It is a father’s job to love his daughter in the way that she needs to be loved.”

— Karin Slaughter

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

— Austin O'Malley

I've definitely had mentors, whether parents or friends or actors who I like.

— Paul Dano

“In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.”

— C.S. Lewis

Mothers and schools plant the seeds of nearly all the good and evil which exists in the world.

— Benjamin Rush

“About ten years. My father had a tea plantation near Trincomalee. I was born”

— Lindsay Jayne Ashford

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

— Madeleine Albright

I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.

— Neko Case