Parenting Quotes · Page 443

Who ran to help me when I fell, Or kissed the place to make it well? …My mother.

— Ann Taylor

Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.

— Ihara Saikaku

We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

— Vera Farmiga

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

— Maya Angelou

“The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.”

— Karen Maezen Miller

Where you are born, your parent's beliefs, or your ethnic background should not make you a target.

— Peter Maurer

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.

— Michael Levine

Imagine having Ahab for a father, and Jezebel for a mother.Only God can help your future.

— Wordfaith3

I feel better as a human being, I feel better as a parent, I feel better as the person that I need…

— Kevin Holland

I was in film before I was on stage. I started acting when I was like 12. But, no, I think my…

— Cynthia Nixon

“To her, fate seemed like a larger, omnipotent version of her father, stealing her choices and controlling her life without any regard…

— Stephanie Garber

As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That's about the most…

— Terry McMillan

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose…

— Richard Dawkins

It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he is no…

— Honore de Balzac

I always dreamed of playing music with my father. But my voice is so scratchy, I only sing in the shower.

— Rohan Marley

I was an altar boy. My mother wanted me to be a priest. I am very Christian and Catholic. ... I'm very…

— Hugo Chavez

“My mother taught me to knit when I was seven. I forgot about knitting until one day I saw Marion at the…

— Anita Shreve

“When Paxton was a teenager, her friends had even envied her relationship with her mother. Everyone knew that neither Paxton nor Sophia…

— Sarah Addison Allen

I left New York after my mother died and, rather aimlessly, had settled in Istanbul for a change of scene. It was…

— Lawrence Osborne

For a moment, I was captivated as I studied them side by side. My mother: the perfect picture of guardian excellence and…

— Richelle Mead

“Sol! Take your daughter, your only daughter Rachel, Whom you love, and go to the world called Hyperion and offer her there…

— Dan Simmons

Coming from an immigrant background, where a lot of parents don't want their kids to be comedians, success was just showing my…

— Maz Jobrani

At the creation of man and woman, unity for them in marriage was not given as hope; it was a command! 'Therefore…

— Henry B. Eyring

This part of being a man, changing the way we parent, happens only when we want it to. It changes because we…

— Anonymous

There's something very frightening about the vulnerability of mothers and babies.

— Jed Mercurio

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch.

— Matthew Rhys

Loving fathers give their children a sense of their history.

— Jennifer Rothschild

I hate when my parents rush me to get ready and then when I am, they're not.

— Anonymous

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

— Anthony Hopkins

My father has always been a big influence in my life.

— Romelu Lukaku

To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands.

— Oprah Winfrey

“It’s gotta be any parent’s worst nightmare when they lose their child.”

— Ozzy Osbourne

“Our children are only as brilliant as we allow them to be.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

“If you can give your son or daughet only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”

— Bruce Barton

The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.

— Terrence Howard

When I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate.

— Jackie Vernon

The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty

— Adlai E Stevenson

My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

— Michael Jordan

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

— Henry Ward Beecher