Parenting Quotes · Page 451

I buy the kids off with candy and toys and all of a sudden I'm the 'bad parent?'

— Anonymous

We're from Delhi and I've grown up surrounded by my parents and relatives speaking Punjabi at home.

— Jonita Gandhi

“One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes.”

— Hannah Lillith Assadi

Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

— William Shenstone

“Being a mother was the best of all human experiences, and also the most excruciating.”

— Elin Hilderbrand

Practice makes perfect. How many times have parents uttered those words to encourage their children ¦?

— Vikrant Parsai

I'm a mother and a family person, and I have my children to think of.

— Dorit Kemsley

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

— Cornelia Funke

I knew I wanted to be a father; I didn't know it was going to be this awesome or that my kid…

— Mike Myers

I've listened to Terry Wogan since I was a girl; my parents listened to David Jacobs and Desmond Carrington.

— Zoe Ball

My mother had very poor hearing for many years, until she went basically into - I guess I would call it a…

— Joan Allen

I was lucky to grow up in a family where your parents loved you no matter what you were or what you…

— Andreja Pejic

I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's…

— Whitney Houston

As more time passes, people see my father for what he is - one of the last of a generation who went…

— Dorothy Bush Koch

When I was really, really young, I wanted to be a cook at Bob Evans because my parents would always go there…

— iJustine

“The good son imitates the father with such passion that father and son become each other's chief stumbling block - a situation…

— René Girard

“So Lillian Ross came to the party. Before dinner, she asked my mother for a tour of the house. My mother showed…

— Nora Ephron

She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled…

— Jesmyn Ward

My mother has always encouraged my creative side. She is a very eclectic, creative woman and looks incredibly glamorous, even when trudging…

— Alice Temperley

“The call to delight in our heavenly Father is not one that can be rightly obeyed with bootstrap effort. One cannot grimly…

— R.C. Sproul Jr

When people tell me that I must get my maverick gene from my father, they are only half right. My father and…

— Meghan McCain

“The "kindness of giving you a body" means that, at first, our bodies are not fully matured nor are our pleasant complexions.…

— Gampopa

Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist.…

— Shreya Ghoshal

Parents want their children to excel, callers to a victims' hot line want help, and sick people want to get well. Offering…

— Richard Thaler

I haven't read more than two pages, but my mother is a George Martin super fan.

— Kristian Nairn

...Being a father is the most exciting, amazing thing that ever happened to me.

— Jimmy Fallon

“Hannah would have to get an implant in her hip like their mothers had.”

— Hugh Howey

A rapist does not learn to respect until the girl, he himself becomes the A girl's father till than ,

— Mak_786

My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades.

— Lucy Deakins

“Every tragedy that happens in the world happens to my mother,”

— Gillian Flynn

Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?

— Cassandra Clare

I would love to have kids. I can't wait to be a father, had a great father - still have a great…

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

I used to roof hay barns for my father. It's dangerous work. Writing is much better.

— Tara Westover

“Our Father, grant us humility, that in our lowliness we behold your exalted grace. Amen.”

— Chad Bird

“So if Adam and Eve are the parents of the whole human race, where did Cain’s wife come from? After”

— Sam Torode

My father has the most tremendous personality and wonderful looks - he looks like Fredric March.

— Jason Robards

“Succes has many parents but, failure is an orphan.”

— Obameso Sunkanmi

Many world champions compare themselves to my father.

— Mick Schumacher

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.

— Maurice Sendak

The most important thing for my father was learning. Because nobody can take that away from you.

— Ruth Westheimer