Parenting Quotes · Page 470

Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.

— Isabel Allende

Our father never had to yell at us much when we were growing up. No one ever wanted to let Dad down.

— Dorothy Bush Koch

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

— Peter Shaffer

I think Father Christmas is real because the belief is real. The belief becomes the reality.

— Matt Haig

It's nice to have cool parents. They're cool with everything.

— Ilana Glazer

I shouldn't have to worry any time my father walks outside the front door of our home.

— Normani Kordei

“A middle-aged mother in a little town called Naples has been named Miss Dreamsville.”

— Amy Hill Hearth

The devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but the Father tests us to bring out the best in…

— Warren W. Wiersbe

My mother often tells me not to drive back home late in the night. But like all youngsters, I suggest that there…

— Rakul Preet Singh

I said that my parents had come from India. They thought America was a place where people were treated equally, and their…

— Neal Katyal

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be…

— Faye Wattleton

“Iniquity it is; but pass the can. My lad, no pair of kings our mothers bore; Our only portion is the estate…

— A.E. Housman

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough…

— Oscar Wilde

My father chose the yellow-and-black tracksuit that he wore in 'Game of Death' to represent his idea of 'the style of no…

— Shannon Lee

I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a…

— Arsenio Hall

If it's your child, it's different. You don't care about those things. It's so minor. You become a parent and nothing else…

— Kevin Federline

All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now…

— Andrew Jackson

A child who's been injured by a parent waits her whole life for some acknowledgment of the wrong that's been done, some…

— Lisa Unger

“Margaret quirked her lips, looking much like the imp their mother used to call her. "What flower would ye pick for Katherine…

— Paula Quinn

We no longer just take religious identity from our parents, so what's going on? Why are people going to this series, why…

— Bruce Feiler

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents, so Wild at Heart was a wish come true. The…

— Laura Dern

God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work…

— John Ruskin

“Did you tell my mother that you called me a bitch last night,too?" I asked him. "Because that's the best way I…

— Jennifer Echols

“Along the way, my Heavenly Father has taught me that the fruit of the Spirit - love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness,…

— Jeremy Camp

My father has been a constant source of love and strength in my life.

— Hunter Biden

This boys more mixed up than a feather in a whirlwind.

— Foghorn Leghorn

It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?

— Chelsea Clinton

Lost but found and now am enjoying in the house of my father, yes that is the love of God.

— Crosby Kwaw

There are illegitimate parents, but I don't believe there are any illegitimate children.

— Rick Warren

Anger is the mother of a whole brood of evil actions. Divorce too often is the bitter fruit of anger.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.

— Arthur C. Clarke

My mother was a classic matriarchal figure. She'd sing round the house and always had music on.

— Bill Bailey

For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be. I could only be me.

— Amy Tan

“Babies are designed to cry when they need something and mothers are designed to respond.”

— Pamela Druckerman

A child seldom needs a good talking to as a good listening to.

— Robert Breault

“Wise parents take simple actions early on so they can avoid having to take very painful ones later.”

— Jim Fay

My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.

— Jaclyn Smith

A father’s duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

— Ezra Taft Benson

My parents were very proud of me. After they passed, my career doesn't mean as much to me.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?

— Charles Lamb