Parenting Quotes · Page 460

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

— Edmund Burke

For a woman, a son offers the best chance to know the mysterious male existence.

— Carol Klein

I've made a lot of mistakes in the past, but becoming a mother is definitely not one of them.

— Anonymous

“Potter, you really are just as foolish and preposterously self-absorbed as your father.”

— G. Norman Lippert

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I want to be remembered as a loving, understanding father.

— Robert Gossett

It's a parent's dream come true to watch your sons play at the highest level of college basketball.

— Dell Curry

When [my father] asked me to help him, I really didn't suspect the consequences.

— Indira Gandhi

More of 'The Bourne Identity's script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate,…

— Doug Liman

I follow my friends around their house, because I don't want to be left alone and have awkward moments with their parents

— Anonymous

“is the unseen guest at every table, the silent listener to every conversation”—her mother thereby inferring that she too would be the…

— Edna O'Brien

What's so sad is when we're younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that's what you…

— Jennifer Lawrence

I don't think you need a particular day to dedicate to your dad or to make your father or parents feel special.…

— Varun Dhawan

My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and…

— Prefuse 73

My parents believed in the ideology of the Left. And being influenced by Marxism and Leninism theories, they chose Marlena as my…

— Atishi

Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns…

— Amy Hempel

“For as I am standing there I look closer into the grandstand and see that there is someone waiting. It is my…

— Louise Erdrich

I credit my parents for many things that had never seemed remarkable when I was growing up, and one of those things…

— Hanya Yanagihara

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good…

— Maya Angelou

“Dylan Caine came over last night and worked with me to strip the walls.” Her stomach tingled again as she remembered that…

— RaeAnne Thayne

My mother scrubbed other people's floors for a living, and I remember vividly her worrying about being down to the last half…

— David Starkey

I was born in Mumbai. We stayed in a joint family. But in 1994, my father had to shift to Pune for…

— Amruta Khanvilkar

I don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid.…

— John Green

I think that haredi children should study the core subjects and that their parents must work, and I believe that there are…

— Yair Lapid

My love of fashion stemmed from my mother's passion for it.

— Francisco Costa

“A little baby girl trying to soothe her girl of a mother”

— Frances Greenslade

The bond that a mother and son have is stronger than any other bond in the world.

— Sooraj Pancholi

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.

— Bill Ayers

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

— John D. Voelker

“This girl. This baby girl is my life. Her mother is my life. These girls are both my life.”

— Colleen Hoover

Father hood.. if you kill that hooker,you can get your money back DX

— Patience

“My parents...well, they mostly just drink and disappear. That's kinda what they're good at.”

— Moïra Fowley-Doyle

The awkward moment when your parents don't appreciate the hilarious child they have been blessed with.

— U

Obedience, you know, is Good Luck's mother, wedded to Salvation, they say.

— Aeschylus

“If your parents bring you no shame, be very grateful. If you're proud of them, celebrate.”

— Dennis Prager

Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.

— Rush Limbaugh

My mother says I was vaccinated with a phonograph needle. I love to talk. I just love to talk.

— Jerry Hunt

“I have to have dinner with my mother at nine and after that I won't be fit for human society.”

— Mary Gaitskill

There are a lot of films that come out for kids, and the parents have to suffer through it.

— Steve Carr

As a little kid, you go where your parents drag you. You have no agency, no dominion.

— Richard Linklater