Parenting Quotes · Page 493

“Ignorance must be a fun place to live; my parents seem to vacation there year-round.”

— Nenia Campbell

Students ask me what is the best advice you could give me? And I say, 'Your mother's right.'

— Ann Reinking

I'm the alpha parent most of the time, but bedtime is a completely different animal.

— Hilaria Baldwin

“Being a parent is a gift, one which most men unselfishly allow women to keep all to themselves.”

— Jarod Kintz

My parents were very strapped for cash when we were growing up.

— Gemma Collins

We never had any money. All the money we used to get, my father would give to the Communist Party.

— Shabana Azmi

I love being a father, and I couldn't ask for better children.

— Trevor Ariza

I spent grade nine and ten going to school in Victoria. My parents lived there for 10 years.

— Sophie Hawley-Weld

“Your son is a drunkard,” she informed him. Then she caught a whiff of Roger’s breath. “Following in his father’s footsteps, I…

— Diana Gabaldon

The chief of the tribe is supposed to be the father of all people of the tribe. That is the Haitian way.

— Francois Duvalier

“She was the sort of parent you would want to have living close by, but only on the grounds that she would…

— Jasper Fforde

That awkward moment when your parents tell you to stay in the line when youre shopping, and when youre almost near the…

— Anonymous

[My father] didn't make much money, and I tell a lot of people, you know, I was a vegetarian before people knew…

— Hank Aaron

My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief…

— Michael Jordan

My father used to say that you haven't learnt anything about politics unless you've been out of power for at least 10…

— Naveen Patnaik

My life has taken on a different course. I've got a responsibility now not just as a husband but as a father.

— Adrian Pasdar

One of my mentors was Patricia Schroeder, and one night she came to me on the floor and she said to me,…

— Carolyn Maloney

“They sounded different from the mouth of a young mother than they did from the mouth of a widow. This was because…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

A family from Mexico who arrived here this morning, legally, has as much right to the American dream as the direct descendants…

— Bob Dole

I liked my mom in 'Parzania' and my dad in 'Nayakan' and 'Chachi 420.' And I liked both of them together in…

— Akshara Haasan

You know, I know a lot of lifeguards. Both my parents were lifeguards at a lake in El Paso, Texas. I was…

— Sam Elliott

He is the way, the truth, and the light, and no one can come back into the presence of our Father in…

— Ezra Taft Benson

We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ…

— Anonymous

I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a…

— Emmanuelle Chriqui

My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.

— Mason Cooley

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

— Sam Donaldson

Your responsibility as a parent is never great as the case is with the mother.

— Fran Lebowitz

“Mothers show their daughters how to become strong, fathers make them”

— Rafia Shujaat

“They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE!”

— Stephanie Perkins

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I have never done anything in my life that my mother would not have approved of or been proud of.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

— Bill Ayers

I'm amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can't run after them.

— Claudia Schiffer

I love being a husband and a father. That aspect of my life has been a joy.

— Jason Priestley

“In the modern Oedipal story, it's the mother who kills the father and then takes the son.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

I always grew up around music, my parents and their love of music.

— Caleb McLaughlin

My parents came to San Francisco when they were probably 19 or 20, in the mid-'60s.

— Jon M. Chu

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

— Laura Linney

Theres a big diffrence between you having money and your parents having money. Dont get it twisted.

— Anonymous

I'm a very private person who grew up with a strict German mother who believed 'loose lips sink ships.'

— Tab Hunter