Parenting Quotes · Page 452

I was born rich. Not in tangible things... but rich in the parents I had.

— Ross Perot

Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?

— Fanny Fern

My parents are supportive of anything I want to do, as long as it's not bad.

— Zoey Deutch

“Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.”

— Amor Towles

My family, especially my mother is my biggest strength. She has helped me through so much in life.

— Rashami Desai

“She was a far better mother when she had an audience.”

— Liane Moriarty

Don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business,

— Nikki Haley

My parents argued a lot. It was pretty tumultuous at times.

— Jermaine Fowler

Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a…

— Sophie Kinsella

My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have…

— Ronaldinho

Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood.

— Sathya Sai Baba

I've had a lot of mother figures. But by the time my mom came into my life, it wasn't a 'mommy' thing.…

— Paris Jackson

My father was horrified by my movies, yet he lent me the money to make the early ones. And I paid him…

— John Waters

The Sopranos was the first show about the life of the writer. I never made any secret about the fact that it…

— David Chase

I love the man that [Peter Berg] is, the father that he is, and the leader. We push each other in a…

— Mark Wahlberg

I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother's side had been a matron on…

— Nick Earls

“When we reach out to God, we are lifting our souls up to be nurtured and healed. A soul centered in God…

— John Ortberg

My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books,…

— Harry Lloyd

“Memories particularly of when they weren’t being what parents are nine-tenths of the time, the taskmasters, the examples, the moral authorities, the…

— Philip Roth

~When Valentina was not even 1 month old, my aunt [gave me the best advice]: 'Put her to sleep yourself every night.…

— Salma Hayek

It's very difficult to change your approach to how you see yourself when you suddenly get divorced. And you have to think…

— Amber Rudd

My parents made choices that would put me in environments where I would feel comfortable. And I'm really appreciative of that. They…

— Carolyn Aronson

When you're actually talented, and you have something to offer, people start to look at you for you as opposed to who…

— Katie Cassidy

My mom spent every dollar she ever had on getting me modeling/acting classes when I was a kid. I'm really grateful for…

— Ian Somerhalder

“There’s life after divorce, Sarah,’ my father proclaimed, not that he’d ever been divorced.”

— Claire Cook

My parents are Andre Previn and Mia, but obviously, they're not even my real parents.

— Soon-Yi Previn

“The zenith is just a little farther away from the nadir”

— Uzoma Ezeson

“If Jesus didn't do it, don't say the Father does. If Jesus did do it, don't say the Father doesn't.”

— D.R. Silva

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

— Diane Cilento

Fathers, for the first time, we have no clue what we're doing. I had no idea when I became a father.

— Ed McCaffrey

But I think role models also start in the home with your parents.

— Dominique Wilkins

“A mother is a child's first looking glass into the world.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo.

— Sheridan Smith

My father graduated from high school and didn't go to college and still found his way.

— Russell Hornsby

I was typecast in a mother's role very early in life. I didn't even reach a certain age. I was 20.

— Shefali Shah

Do you know how lucky you are to have a Father who loves you so much?

— Anonymous

My parents moved to San Francisco from India when I was a year old.

— Sid Sriram

He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.

— Daniel D. Palmer

“A doctor should be a clown at heart, a scientist at brain and a mother at conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

— Whitney Houston