Parenting Quotes · Page 472

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

— Anonymous

I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother.

— Kim Chernin

I have a lot of surrogate parents, but there's no one like your mother.

— Yance Ford

If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.

— Alison Bechdel

My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.

— Karamo Brown

“Watching her mother’s decline had been slow and painful: the worst thing she had ever had to witness.”

— Victoria Jenkins

My mother told me that niceness and kindness goes a long way.

— Mr. T

He stands up for himself. He's a fighter. That's who my father is.

— Eric Trump

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers…

— Marina Warner

“the Son, but the Son the visible of the Father. And for this reason all spake with Christ when He was present…

— The Church Fathers

I want to separate my professional life from my personal life. I want to live a normal life and be a normal…

— Frances McDormand

I'm coming to that realization that I'm going to be seen as a mom to someone, and it makes you think about…

— Cobie Smulders

I wrote my own pop songs and sang one of them when I went into a stupid beauty competition when I was…

— Kristine Opolais

In an industrialized country as advanced as the United States, no mother should have the fear of dying during childbirth or in…

— Abigail Spanberger

'Torts' more or less means 'wrongs'...One of my friends said that Torts is the course which proves that your mother was right.

— Scott Turow

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up,…

— Justine Larbalestier

My desires seem especially to be after weanedness from the world, perfect deadness to it, and that I may be crucified to…

— David Brainerd

“Not untill all babies are born from glass jars will the combat cease between mother and son. But in a totalitarian future…

— Camille Paglia

It really does no good to ask questions that reflect opposition to the will of God. Rather ask, What am I to…

— Richard G. Scott

“want none of your money," said I, "but what you owe my father. I'll get you one glass, and no more." When…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

My mother was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. There are moments when I remember her beauty, unadorned, unposed, not…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

“The real magic - the magic we'd lived with all our lives, my mother's magic of charms and cantrips, of salt by…

— Joanne Harris

“At first the lives of women frightened me. They seemed so fragile, so dependent on fathers and husbands and brothers and lovers.…

— Alice Steinbach

“One day when I was fourteen, I told Charlie that I hated Mother. “Don’t hate her, Jo,” he told me. “Feel sorry…

— Ruta Sepetys

Dear boys, Be the type of guy you would want your daughter to be with. Sincerely A FATHER

— Richie

The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character.

— Zach Wahls

I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.

— Alexandra Fuller

Being a parent can be overwhelming at times, but it's something we're figuring out as we go.

— Lacey Chabert

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

I have been incredibly lucky. My parents are actors; they've been the safety blanket around me.

— Eleanor Tomlinson

Nobody comes out of their mother's womb doing cucarachas.

— Donnie Burns

Listen to your father in your head when you don't know what to do as a parent.

— Jill Zarin

“While you are busy growing up, don't forget your parents are growing old.”

— Aslı E. Perker

It's fairly traumatizing for a young man to lose what you thought was a father figure.

— Ruben Gallego

Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.

— Johnny Ramone

“Whoever taught my mother the phrase stud muffin should be prosecuted”

— Flynn Meaney

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

— Tom Wolfe

I don't think any mother who has lost a child is ever the same.

— Jill Biden

I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.

— Christopher Castellani

My parents are the people that led me here. My mom helped me learn to sing and she travels with me.

— Coco Jones