Parenting Quotes · Page 440

New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won’t hit Charles’s mate in front of his father.

— Patricia Briggs

Fatherhood makes you cute. Women find bumbling fathers cute and attractive.

— Jerry Seinfeld

My parents, my friends and my coaches, they follow me in my bad moments and in my best moments.

— Juan Martin del Potro

My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.

— Vera Wang

A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.

— Charles M. Schulz

I think Lincoln had a unique parenting style. He let his kids run free and wild.

— Steven Spielberg

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a bitch.

— Jack Nicholson

Being a parent is a huge responsibility. Your child becomes the centre of your world.

— Bobby Deol

As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked…

— Michael J. Fox

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt…

— Thomas Keneally

“A parent who is respectful to his children and teaches them with dignity and respect will be respected by his children.”

— Tedd Tripp

I'm a father now. I got to man up and be the best father I can be, which means I have to…

— Danny Garcia

I am very happy for the respect shown towards my father, Raj Kapoor-ji, the greatest showman of Hindi cinema.

— Randhir Kapoor

It's not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of their own, living their entire lives in the…

— Mark Shields

“MRS. PEACHUM How the mother is to be pitied who has handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars and lectures of morality are nothing…

— John Gay

My father has been serious with me because he wanted me to have the best opportunities to do well. I think that…

— Casper Ruud

We are born, we grow up, we live our lives as best we can. If we are thoughtful we are good parents…

— Robert Reich

“After American titan and presidential father Joseph P. Kennedy suffered a stroke that impacted one side of his body, guests pretended not…

— Sally Bedell Smith

“One of the main problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is…

— Douglas Adams

She can't force us to go to the ball. We're grown men, for Lord's sake!" Will cocked an eyebrow at his younger…

— Sarah MacLean

I'm from a family with five kids in it, and my father almost became a Catholic priest. And my mother never went…

— Carrie Coon

Actually the family is still the core social unit. Culturally, traditional masculinity was a removed father. That was a false conception of…

— Stephen Marche

“K.T. sighs. “If you mess with her head, I’ll personally hunt you down, but otherwise, good luck. If you can get her…

— Erica Cameron

I don't care that much about rote memorization. An old boyfriend of mine used to get into lacerating arguments with his parents…

— Susan Orlean

My parents are private investigators for God's sake.

— Anonymous

Pride is allowed to have an element of worry, especially when you are a mother.

— David Levithan

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.

— Paul Wolfowitz

I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.

— Tamara Mellon

My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.

— Anand Giridharadas

The deeds of the children are a testament to the upbringing they received from their parents.

— Christopher Paolini

“kept all these news clippings. That’s where I read how my mother”

— Diane Moody

My child has done nothing wrong apart from being born to a mother like me

— Kim Soo-hyun

My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.

— Matt Berninger

The only person I can't stand to see cry is my mother.

— Usman Ismaheel

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

— Alain de Botton

The only thing a lawyer won't question is the legitimacy of his mother.

— W. C. Fields

I was lucky enough to have a loving present father in my family.

— David Duke

My father passed away when I was 17. I had no one to take care of me.

— Vijayashanti

“Your parents could always hurt you, no matter how old you were.”

— Cassandra Clare

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness

— Egon Schiele