Parenting Quotes · Page 508

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

— Anita Diament

The best thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother.

— Anonymous

My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.

— Doris Lessing

He was self-sacrificing in many different ways, and my father was a man of paradoxes.

— John Carter Cash

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

— Jonathan Swift

“No mother loves all her children the same, not even the Mother Above.”

— George R.R. Martin

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.

— Jean de la Bruyere

My parents have always been supportive of whatever I've wanted to do.

— Syd

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Horizons may seem like endings but they only actually bend father into the sky, curving into something new, beginning all over again.”

— Huntley Fitzpatrick

When, President Bush asks me to go with his father to the Tsunami impacted areas and help raise money, I was thrilled…

— William J. Clinton

My mom's parents were farmers, so every summer, my sisters and I would help out, hauling pipe and pulling maggots off the…

— Ashley Graham

“Once she’d realized she’d never meet her mother’s expectations, it didn’t seem real important to meet anyone else’s.”

— Carla Cassidy

There are better mothers than disaster. A native land is the best of all mothers. We American Jews have a native land…

— Louis D. Brandeis

I'm not saying you mother is a whore. But if her vagina was a video game it would be rated E for…

— Anonymous

All my life I've been interested in politics. I went on the miners march when I was six months old. My parents…

— Jess Phillips

“Rowan crossed his arms. “You send me an army of Doranelle warriors, and I’ll tell you where Lorcan is, and where he…

— Sarah J. Maas

“The moment a child leaves us, a parent’s heart feels different. Medically, this condition is called “broken heart syndrome,” but grieving parents…

— Pam K. McCarty

We all agree that parents have the primary responsibility of filtering the material that reaches children. However, children are often lured onto…

— Robert A Brady

Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could…

— Benazir Bhutto

What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the…

— Anna Quindlen

The real men know that his lady is physically&emotionally weaker than him, and he treats her like a small child, love her…

— Senoraroy

We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the sidewalk my parents didn't…

— Michael Nutter

“The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on. He took a face from the ancient gallery And he walked on…

— The Doors

I always wanted to make my parents feel proud of me.

— Ronan Keating

I want to make people of Punjab, my parents, and grandparents proud.

— Shehnaaz Gill

There can be no greater well wisher for me in life than my mother.

— Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Here the weak die easy as a feather, and when they die, they die forever.

— Amber Hope

“Holy mother of banana cream pie. They had pictures.”

— Darynda Jones

Dear parents,knocking while open the door to my bedroom kind of defeats the purpose of knocking.

— Anonymous

I hoped I wasn't actually dead. That would make finding our parents and saving the world really hard.

— James Patterson

Whenever I am dating somebody, I want her to take care of me like my mother.

— Saqib Saleem

But children are children of parents life savings are often dishonest!

— Anonymous

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

— Jodi Picoult

When a father of a daughter dies, you elevate them. And you sort of deify them.

— Mariella Frostrup

The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

— Timothy J. Russert

And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears.

— William Shakespeare

I am very close to my mother-in-law, Lee, we see each other often.

— Carole Radziwill

As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

— John Climacus

A worried Mother does better Research than the FBI...

— Anonymous