Parenting Quotes · Page 501

When I was young my father used to play. He always took me to the training ground.

— Thomas Partey

We never shall understand the pain that our parent go through with us until we are parent ourselves.

— Michael Country

“Knox's father shrugged. "They're children. We don't need their forgiveness.”

— Alex London

I'm moving into a yurt in the woods near my parents' home in Vermont.

— Hannah Teter

In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I didn't meet my father until he was 30, and he died nine months after that.

— Jermaine O'Neal

It is not that I trust you because what your mother says but what your neighbour says.

— Vikrant Parsai

My father is an amazing fighter and what he's already accomplished is nothing short of remarkable.

— Eric Trump

I had been very impressed with the courts we visited to see my father. The judges wearing wigs, the lawyers, the legal…

— Asma Jahangir

“Be a hard worker. Work and happiness are like mother and daughter. Work brings forth happiness. Hard work brings great happiness. Enjoy…

— Israelmore Ayivor

It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)

— Sylvia Plath

“I know who you are. My father told me stories about you. He talked about your hands- hands that created the world…

— Anonymous

And my parents finally realise that I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: they rent out my room.

— Woody Allen

I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with…

— Drew Barrymore

As a kid, I could not figure out why everyone was running after my father. But when I see him on screen,…

— Akshara Haasan

('Eraserhead') may seem like a dark film, but my father and I watch it, and all we do is laugh. It was…

— Jennifer Lynch

The soul on earth is an immortal guest, Compelled to starve at an unreal feast: A spark, which upward tends by nature's…

— Hannah More

I think that it's a natural thing for parents to look for reflections of themselves in their children and feel a certain…

— Bruce Springsteen

I grew up in a very musical household. My brother had KISS and Van Halen records, but my parents loved country and…

— Piggy D

It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know. I came out…

— Aldis Hodge

“she had a sudden memory of playing Fox and Geese with her father at Christmastime and of the joy-filled terror in knowing…

— Val Brelinski

“Reading Aloud to My Father I chose the book haphazard from the shelf, but with Nabokov's first sentence I knew it wasn't…

— Jane Kenyon

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“In Hwang’s view, the Pyongyang leadership “used the feudalistic idea of filial piety to justify absolutism of the Great Leader. Filial piety…

— Bradley K. Martin

In 1971, my mother died of cancer and within a year my first husband Alec Ross died, also from cancer.

— Sheila Hancock

Mother never said to me, 'Stay out of trouble.' She didn't have to!

— Chita Rivera

Mani is not just my Godfather. He is almost like a father to me.

— Sudha Kongara

“Every mom has her own battle. Win yours without being 'nyinyir' to others.”

— Jihan Davincka

My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

— Chazz Palminteri

“You're not exactly the father I'd choose for my children. (Coco Chanel)”

— Chris Greenhalgh

I used to worry about becoming a father. But now, after becoming one, I am very happy.

— Ranvir Shorey

So let us sleep outside tonight, Lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely.

— Dave Matthews

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

— Luis Bunuel

We have a responsibility to Mother Earth to protect it as much as possible.

— Wes Studi

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.

— Raquel Cepeda

Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees.

— Rajneesh

I am lucky I have him. After my parents passed away, Boneyji has been my father, mother, and husband.

— Sridevi

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.

— Sylvia Plath

I got the top spot again! Glad to make my parents proud.. Its for the first period good start though!!!

— Chinney

I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.'

— Mario Testino