Parenting Quotes · Page 503

Growing up an only child with a single parent is probably why I'm an actor.

— Lauren Graham

The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.

— James Madison

My parents are pretty strict 'education first - fun later' kind of parents.

— Stacey Solomon

“Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.”

— Margaret Dilloway

“A man without a mother is a man without a country, an exile”

— Jerry Weintraub

Outside of acting, the person that I admire the most is my mother.

— Evangeline Lilly

My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene.

— James Nicoll

“I am Tyrion, of House Lannister. Men call me the Imp.” “My mother named me Shae. Men call me … often.”

— George R.R. Martin

Conversations between parents and kids are important - about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.

— Garcelle Beauvais

My mother is very fond of cooking and whenever I am home she ensures that I eat the best food prepared by…

— Abhimanyu Singh

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have…

— Anonymous

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's…

— Peter Mullan

For my mother, everything stands in relation to her Welshness; the fact she married an Englishman seems to be something of an…

— Ben Miller

Yah… I have fucked ur mother and now I'm fucking you ... if you need more bring ur aunt so I can…

— Benson Benngeng

Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in…

— Will Rogers

After I played the mother in a few films, I was only offered mother roles. I just wanted to act; so I…

— Rohini Hattangadi

Your Heavenly Father will help you find the right path as you seek His guidance. Remember though, after you pray you must…

— Margaret D. Nadauld

I decided to be an inventor when I was five. My parents had given me a few various enrichment toys like erector…

— Ray Kurzweil

I love my parents and they're wonderful people, but they were strict, and I still look for ways to get even. When…

— Elayne Boosler

“I wondered what my mother would say. She would be happy that I found a guy like Caleb, but she would still…

— Tarryn Fisher

“This is one of the many odd and unexpected little situations where you kinda find out who you are as a mother.…

— Stacey Hatton

When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying…

— Robert Penn Warren

When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who…

— Tina Turner

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Oh, my parents never cracked a book, just newspapers.

— Lloyd Alexander

When my father began playing for Led Zeppelin our family was living in a 14-foot trailer.

— Jason Bonham

My most important jobs are to be a father and a husband, and so some things have to wait.

— Christopher Jackson

“His father is hinky, she said with a sigh. And by hinky she meant a drug kingpin .”

— Chelsea Cain

Trust is that rare and priceless treasure that wins us the affection of our heavenly Father.

— Brennan Manning

My mother always told me it wasn't polite to ask what people make.

— Clint Eastwood

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

— Francis Bacon

I love horror, mystery, and science fiction, and Poe was one of the founding fathers of those worlds.

— Matt Czuchry

How often do we not see children ruined through the virtues, real or supposed, of their parents?

— Samuel Butler

One of my father's better tendencies is to take in human beings who have somehow been led astray.

— Cord Jefferson

Sometimes, if I felt badly about myself, I could slyly pull out that I have this famous father.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Even though my parents separated, my mother was in love with my father and never re-married.

— Nargis Fakhri

All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this...

— Shirley Jackson

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.

— Margaret Turnbull

I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

— Margaret Thatcher