Parenting Quotes · Page 487

I was six when my parents divorced, and that was tough for me.

— Andie MacDowell

“At the best of times, Father Bain's face resembled a clenched fist.”

— Diana Gabaldon

Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.

— Mollie King

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

— Martin Mull

“The best thing parents can do for their children is allow them to be who they were born to be.”

— Nancy Arroyo Ruffin

If you have happy parents who are wonderfully boring then you are golden.

— Fearne Cotton

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

— Jayne Meadows

“I blame Charles Dickens for the death of my father'.”

— John Boyne

“The mother was your friend, you see, but the woman was your enemy, and love between the sexes is strife. Do not…

— August Strindberg

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of…

— William Graham Sumner

“Nearly everyone had a father or uncles who had fought in World War II or Korea, or both, and many had grandfathers…

— Mark Bowden

Being an MP is a good job, the sort of job all working-class parents want for their children -- clean, indoors and…

— Diane Abbott

All that the Eternal Father teaches and reveals is His being, His nature, and His Godhead, which He manifests to us in…

— Meister Eckhart

My father took me and my about-to-be-traumatized friends to Stanley Kubrick's '2001' for my 10th birthday party.

— David Hewlett

“My mother still deludes herself that the letters are written out of more than a desire to spend as little time in…

— Cat Hellisen

My grandma used to call my mother 'Tuppence' as a term of affection, but she was worried when my parents actually put…

— Tuppence Middleton

There's not a day that William and I don't wish that she was... we don't wish that she was still around, and…

— Prince Harry

Having that little bit of breathing room to work, and not feeling like it's going to fall apart at any second, has…

— Will Sheff

“Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe in princesses,…

— John Fowles

[On her mother:] My relationship with her is close, painful, and skaky, and I always have to keep searching for a sign…

— Tove Ditlevsen

“Just because things turned out badly in the end doesn’t mean that anything has changed in my relationship with my mother. Everything…

— Banana Yoshimoto

Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return; prepared to send back…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The blaming of mothers for earning their living and neglecting their duties became a well-established principle. The fact that women had earned…

— Gabrielle Palmer

My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

— Gwyneth Paltrow

My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.

— Rohit Shetty

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

— Alexander the Great

When I'm always in my room my parents complain. When I go out too much, my parents complain.

— Anonymous

It's a fact that every minute you hold a child, it triples in mass.

— Drew Magary

As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.

— David Harsanyi

“Where would we be without the success of our mothers?”

— Edna Stewart

“The man called out to Kamara, Dzhikoni’s father. “Would you like to take this camel?”

— Yevgen Azarenkov

“A mother who would stop at nothing for her child is dangerous woman when crossed.”

— Solange nicole

We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.

— Roy L. Smith

There is nothing like being a mother. The happiness my daughter brings me is like none other.

— Cynthia Bailey

The purpose of a college education is to question your father's values,

— James O. Freedman

My father made me swear that I would never resort to violence in life.

— Manoj Kumar

I am a mother and I have been divorced, and I love fashion and the Upper East Side.

— Kelly Rutherford

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do…

— Hilary Duff

Good parents have children who do terrible things and vice-versa.

— Terry McMillan