Parenting Quotes · Page 445

I've been the type of father who tries desperately to be perfect but doesn't succeed all the time.

— Max von Sydow

“My mother despises what can never truly be done so she does not care for cooking or cleaning.”

— Faith Shearin

“Go sit next to him. Let him hear your voice,” his mother said. This woman had seen too many movies”

— Kasie West

This New Years, I'm going to party like Maury just told me I'm not the father!

— Anonymous

My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.

— Viktor Vekselberg

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

— Hilda Solis

“Some children are each loved by their stepparent, but not by their biological parent … or parents.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.

— Emilio Estevez

Have you known Your grandma?.. She takes place when your Mama is not around.She shows strict attitude in front of your mother…

— Silniña Silma

We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do…

— Mira Nair

I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences.…

— Ahmet Zappa

I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal.

— Matthew Morrison

My mother tells me that I was a very busy, curious child and that I quite often challenged my father when I…

— Claude Picasso

“No matter what kind of clouds they are – nimbus, stratus, cumulus – my mother always sees Elvis, and my sister always sees angels.”

— Elissa Schappell

A father who sees his daughter leave in the arms of another man does not feel the same as a mother. It…

— Claire Denis

“You really are like him, your father." "I can't tell whether you think that's good or bad." "What does it matter? It's…

— Victoria Schwab

The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Heavenly father I give thanks to you for the peaceful night,thank you for the gift of life and health,not many people woke…

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Tom , the third son, was most like his father. He was born in fury and he lived in lightning.Tom came headlong…

— John Steinbeck

I was raised by women. I have my parents, but I have two older sisters and I would learn from them about…

— Alexandre Desplat

“Whose voice was first sounded on this land? The voice of the red people who had but bows and arrows. [...] What…

— Red Cloud

I had gone through a mother having dementia in the last couple of years of her life. She was in a nursing…

— Joan Allen

More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a…

— Merrill Markoe

The thing my father was proudest of was the Ayres clock at the intersection of Washington Street and Meridian. That made him…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Mothering well is a prayerful art. —Lori McConnell, Restoring Hope in a Woman’s Heart”

— Stasi Eldredge

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

— Dwayne Johnson

“There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.”

— Stephen King

“You have a healthy baby boy! The words ring like church bells in the ears of new parents.”

— Dr. Linda Barboa

“I used to think my father had been assigned to us by the government.”

— Akhil Sharma

'I want to date someone older than my parents.' Said no one ever.

— Anonymous

“To have the opportunity to know your parents is to have the opportunity to truly know yourself.”

— Amy Denise

I had a mother who prayed for me, and prayer changes everything.

— Dennis Edwards

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

— Kelly Carlin-McCall

The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

— Herbert Spencer

I'm never more encouraged than to hear someone talk about how eerie it is that I move like my father.

— Michael C. Hall

“Being a parent is like being a catcher. You gotta handle whatever is thrown your way.”

— Tom Swyers

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

— Peter Abrahams

I would visit my father and spend the summers with him in the south of France.

— Yasmin Aga Khan

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

— Galeazzo Ciano

When there is no job related stress, you are more aware of your mate and children, if you are a parent.

— Zig Ziglar