Parenting Quotes · Page 426

I'm gay, it's all a big scam. My kids don't even know who their mother is.

— Harry Connick, Jr

I don't like to play the same stereotypical father's role of a heroine or hero.

— Sanjay Mishra

I don't want to be that parent yelling all the time.

— Michelle Buteau

Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.

— Britt Ekland

I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.

— James Caan

I hate when people complain about their parents. I would do anything for my parents to be together.

— Anonymous

“I got schooled this year. By my Father . He taught me that heroes aren't always invincible .”

— Colleen Hoover

And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.

— James Joyce

As a teenager, I'd longed to get my driver's license so I could get away from my parents. Then I'd longed to…

— Kim Brooks

“There is entirely too much tut-tutting in this realm, if you ask me. All these kings would do a deal better if…

— George R.R. Martin

The arguments about parents being too permissive and kids growing up without superegos are not based on fact. Our research tells us…

— Lawrence Kohlberg

“This is what we need from our parents, more than the truth about how small we are. We will have more than…

— Wendy Walker

Would Americans really feel better with insurance companies deciding whether they or their parents get the care they need? Probably not.

— Neera Tanden

As a parent, do the right thing and you don't get in trouble. If you lead a charmed life, you better act…

— Leigh Anne Tuohy

Part of being a good mother means sometimes taking your own well being and needs into account when making decisions about how…

— Anonymous

My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid…

— Mike Myers

Daughter, I want you to form the most intense, loving relationship with yourself. Only then will you realize your capacity for kindness…

— Diriye Osman

Work ethic is one of the biggest things my father taught me. That man worked like every day, every day, 9 to…

— John Buffalo Mailer

Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether…

— Alia Bhatt

“It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over…

— Augusten Burroughs

“Remember how we use to pray to get invited to birthday parties? And they only asked us because we were so grateful…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Essential to receiving divine forgiveness are personal, individual recognition and acceptance of our Father's mercy, made available to us by the atoning…

— Ronald E. Poelman

“But in that one little window of time, many lasting decisions were made. First, any love for my father that might have…

— Douglas Coupland

“My mother used to read to me every night when I was little. We got through most of the major fantasy books…

— Wendy Froud

I want to be respected as a woman, as a mother, as a wife. That's why I transition.

— Carmen Carrera

I know we both have very unusual jobs, but we manage just like any other parents.

— Emma Willis

If poverty is the mother of crime, then stupidity is its father.

— Anonymous

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

— Poppy Z. Brite

Yves Saint Laurent has a special place in my heart because he was my mother's favorite designer.

— Linda Johnson Rice

My father used to take off his belt and give me a crack. And I'm all right.

— Sean Hannity

To lose your last remaining parent is the toughest thing. It is a very lonely thing.

— Arpad Busson

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

— Edith Wharton

Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.

— John Lennon

Parents remain our touchstones, fellow travelers, even after death. They are both missing and present.

— Ellen Goodman

I could never repay my parents for always pushing me and believing in me as much as they did.

— Normani Kordei

“You know you have succeeded as a parent when you find yourself taking advice from your children.”

— Raymond C. Nolan

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."

— Amy Vanderbilt

My parents didn't have a good relationship, my father was a cheater.

— Angelina Pivarnick

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

— James Fenton

My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

— T. D. Jakes