Parenting Quotes · Page 436

Believe it or not, the worst thing to hear from your parents is 'I'm Disappointed in you.'

— Anonymous

I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.

— Anonymous

“But a son—a son must make something of his mother if he is to make something of himself.”

— Lake Union Publishing

The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.

— Vaclav Klaus

When I was kidnapped, my parents snapped into action. They rented out my room.

— Woody Allen

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.

— Danny Aiello

“Our mother is too well bred to hate,' Franny said. 'She disapproves.”

— Alice Hoffman

Neither of my parents had English as a first language.

— Maryanne Trump Barry

Children hates parents advice but you have to know their love must be hide in their advice so take parents advice positively.

— Myself

I've never actually known anything other than nutritious foods. I've grown up with a mother who is a doctor, dentist and cancer…

— Kelly Gale

I think at the end of the day, the way my father looks at it is if the script is solid, if…

— Zayed Khan

Often parents themselves will not have liked education and may not have done well in education. But actually we need to explain…

— Nicky Morgan

Children are best corrected to the point of their understanding, not to the extent of a parent's frustration.

— Wes Fesler

Some of my earliest memories, from when I was six or seven, are of going to see Pedro Infante movies and telling…

— Vicente Fernandez

“I’m riding beside my best friend, and I tell him, in the same offhand tone my mother had used, That’s my grandfather’s…

— Nick Flynn

If there's one thing I learned as being a single father is to never bash the mother to your kid. Keep them…

— Anonymous

“We work with both parents and their children to make lasting progress. Supporting the entire family to succeed is critically important, because…

— Thomas L. Friedman

I try to stay out of my kids' way and kind of just let them discover things for themselves. Our job as…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

One way to read the Book of Mormon is as a book of encounters between fathers and sons. Some of those encounters…

— Lance B. Wickman

I'll tell you what you can expect from an Irishman named Wellington whose father was a bookmaker. You can expect that anything…

— Wellington Mara

While I am a lawyer by profession and have travelled to several countries, working and educating myself, I came from a rural…

— Dalia Grybauskaite

When my parents were like, 'We're going to the Northwest,' I thought, 'You've gotta be kidding me.' I was so depressed. The…

— Bonnie McKee

The first photograph I ever experienced consciously is a picture of my mother from before she gave birth to me. Unfortunately, it's…

— Olga Tokarczuk

Your body is as ancient as the clay of the universe from which it is made; and your feet on the ground…

— John O'Donohue

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

— Clive Owen

“Let's make our own way,' says the Mother, 'and not in this boat.”

— Lorrie Moore

My parents are nice people, and they also made a point to have dinner as a family every night.

— David Einhorn

I have never met a feminist who didn't have a father.

— Brian Azzarello

I think it's sensible to plan for the future now I'm a father and a husband.

— Andy Murray

Manoj Bajpayee is a husband, a father, and an actor. He doesn't see his life beyond that.

— Manoj Bajpayee

“Do your best for your parents. If you don’t, one day you will regret it.”

— Debasish Mridha

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

— Claudette Colbert

“I walked behind my father on the way to her headstone, he looked like a house that was caving in.”

— Kyung-sook Shin

So not even death can stop my mother from seeking the annihilation of her own flesh and blood.

— Elijah

Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.

— Mahatma Gandhi

My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.

— Rodney Crowell

I didn't have any singing background. Against the wishes of my parents, I got into making music.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

No mother in the world wants her daughter to have fewer rights than she did...

— Cecile Richards

Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.

— Ritu Ghatourey

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

— Kendrick Lamar