Parenting Quotes · Page 836

My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your parents or…

— August Wilson

I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.

— Miranda Otto

By the time he arrived in Texas - via the red 1947 Studebaker Dad's parents gave him as a graduation gift -…

— Dorothy Bush Koch

I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who…

— Tiger Woods

“You have made me give up the hair Father gave me, the eyes Mother left me, the Color I was born to,…

— Pierce Brown

I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“I do,” you say, “but my father’s an asshole. He thinks if I have my car, I’ll skip my classes.” “Would you?”…

— J.M. Darhower

“And as for my father? No, he wouldn't ever walk through those gates; I now knew that. Whatever Thomas Stone had, wherever…

— Abraham Verghese

“Very few people get a chance to quantify how much their father loves them. But I did. The job should have taken…

— Andy Weir

My father was a musician, and I've always loved writing. I grew up in New York City during a time when hip…

— El-P

“Do you know anything about hearts, Jona? The Senta know hearts. Hearts are not one organ. Inside a mother's womb, two pulsing…

— J.M. McDermott

“The historian Diodorus tells us the mother of the young victim took a prominent part in the ritual of immolation, standing by…

— Solange Hertz

In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's…

— Radhanath Swami

Since the Affordable Care Act allows individuals to buy affordable health care coverage on their own, women no longer have to remain…

— Jan Schakowsky

We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to…

— Kelly Corrigan

We must die alone. To the very verge of the stream our friends may accompany us; they may bend over us, they…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

As breadwinners, providers, mentors, counselors, parents, grandmothers, teachers, doctors, nurses, and more, Black women and their invaluable contributions to Georgia and our…

— Raphael Warnock

I grew up on a council estate in south London; my dad was a bus driver and my mum sewed clothes to…

— Sadiq Khan

My natural mother passed away from cystic fibrosis when I was a toddler, so I feel a great deal of empathy for…

— John Lloyd Young

My brother Steve was always considered the naughty one but I used to drive my parents to despair because I had no…

— Tony Hadley

My mother has never approved of high heels. As a result, I have never been able to walk in high heels -…

— Emma Thompson

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

— Tori Amos

I always knew I wanted to have children and that I'd be a great parent because I feel that's one of the…

— Perez Hilton

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books…

— Jorge Luis Borges

My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh.

— Morris Gleitzman

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of…

— John Lennon

Do not forget the time when your parents thought you how to be responsible, because you can use this for the future.

— Mitch Alapan

Your father always tries to see the good side of people; to find the excuse. But sometimes there isn't a good side.…

— Sophie Kinsella

“United in Our Father’s favor, we carry infinite love within us just as we always have, fearlessly now, into a brand new…

— Sparrow AuSoleil

My father told me I couldn't possibly be a model because I was too short. He's very protective. I did it partly…

— Catherine Oxenberg

I can't think I've ever loved anybody quite as much... My mother was my life, really; she was my entire world.

— Laurence Olivier

I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if…

— Malala Yousafzai

“What the f~ck you're doing is pulling your head outta your ass and getting with the motherf~cking program, babe.”

— Lola Stark

“He wouldn’t say anything, but he would suspect me or his mother nonetheless—a fissure that with the passing of time would expand…

— Herman Koch

The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be…

— Norman Vincent Peale

If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been…

— Gary Shteyngart

“I prefer to use the names their parents gave them -- the names that society will recognize them by when they return…

— Louis Sachar

“I now urge friends and acquaintances to have conversations with their aging parents and within their families while their parents are still…

— Lisa J. Shultz

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and…

— Bible

By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of…

— Phillip Moffitt