Parenting Quotes · Page 433

I hope Indian parents will allow girls to choose their own destiny.

— Geeta Phogat

We're Democrats [with my father]. So, of course he would [support me]. Absolutely.

— Malaak Shabazz

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

— Mark Ronson

I would give my back tooth - the one with the silver filling - to eat afternoon tea with my mother.

— Grace Dent

“When someone calls me madam, I think they mean my mother.”

— Janet Benton

I know our kids will be OK, as long as they listen more to their mother than to me!

— Michael Skolnik

Sometimes I spit on my mother's portrait for pleasure.

— Salvador Dali

The thought of becoming a mother is simply life changing!

— Anonymous

It was a mixed blessing to have famous parents. It was tough to go to auditions and be bad, since I couldn't…

— Ben Stiller

I used to dig around the sandbox and pull out pieces of coal and show them to my mother, and she used…

— Richard Mourdock

“A lot of conflicts arise when parents expect their children to behave like adults. You need to define and learn to differentiate…

— Monica McBride

My mother was into church so she listens to gospel music. I like the way gospel is composed... the great vocalist chord…

— Goldlink

“Somewhere in my memories, I remembered my father telling me that life wasn’t fair; that for everything you were ever given, somebody…

— K.S. Villoso

“I love the smell of my mother’s hair after she washes it. I love the feel of the scratchy stubble on my…

— Sharon M. Draper

I would always thank my parents in everything I do because they sacrificed everything for me to do what I love.

— Marsai Martin

My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best…

— Diana Lopez

“You too, brother. But where are you going? Won't you at least tell me that?" He pats the rifle at his side-…

— Jes Drew

When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine,…

— Rachel Vincent

My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I…

— Tucker Max

When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing…

— Dan Byrd

My mother herself is a very independent woman, and I've had a leading example in this respect. And my father is a…

— Shruti Haasan

You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing…

— Tom Stoppard

“Irrationally, Mosca felt she should have inherited her father’s intimate knowledge of Mandelion. His throwaway comments about the city should have magically…

— Frances Hardinge

What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

No one calls me Belcalis except for my family, my mother, and my daddy.

— Cardi B

“Are you still upset I murdered our parents? - Tommy to Danny”

— Patricia Lynne

I don't want to be a baby momma. I want to be a wife, provider and a mother.

— Anna

“I don’t need parents, a savior, or a fuckin’ knight in shining armor.”

— Nancee Cain

“My happiest memories of my mother are memories of missing her.”

— Laurie Stone

I really didn't even realize I was a hybrid or that my parents were interracial until I was much older.

— Lindsey Morgan

Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].

— Laura Schlessinger

She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.

— Ann Brashares

Greta Gerwig always seemed like a name that was mine. My mother did a good job.

— Greta Gerwig

Being a parent and loosing a child must be the worst thing ever.

— Anonymous

Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother.

— George Herbert

A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs.

— Jessica Alba

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.

— Sergio Leone

We have a good opportunity to be good parents right now.

— Joe Nichols

When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer.

— Will Smith

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.

— Margaret Atwood