Parenting Quotes · Page 95

The most precious things in speech are the pauses.

— Ralph Richardson

“My father who art in hell, Lestat be your name.”

— Anne Rice

My mother struggled with Lyme Disease.

— Andy Kim

Men are what their mothers made them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

— Gerald Brenan

“Never Lie to your parents”

— Alexandra Moore

I had so many faux-parents.

— Gaby Hoffmann

More afraid of my coaches than my parents.

— Anonymous

“Our children is what will be left of us in a generation that we will not be a part of.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

My parents instilled a very strong work ethic in me from a young age, fortunately.

— Matthew Gray Gubler

We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

— Laurie Lee

My father was an entertainer. This is, of course, one of the most marked and enduring manifestations.

— John Carter Cash

Parenting is one of the best management training programs there is.

— Irene Rosenfeld

My mother was a seamstress, and my father was a livery-cab driver.

— Manny Ramirez

“My father does not deserve my sorrow, only relief. He can no longer torment anyone.”

— Emily R. King

Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.

— Maluma

I thank God that I'm a product of my parents, that they infected me with their intelligence and energy for life, with…

— Shakira

My entire life path is to become a better father and to become better to the people that are involved in my…

— Matt Mitrione

Heavenly Father's commandments are the road map He has given us to return to Him, which is the only way we will…

— L. Tom Perry

When I was growing up in California, being vegetarians differentiated my mother and me from normal, held us away from the masses.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Growing up, I found I was good at two things: Art and Math. To hear my parents say it, though, it was…

— John Maeda

“Mother is fading for him, her face receding into shadows, her memory diminishing with each passing day, leaking like sand from a…

— Khaled Hosseini

“The wretchedness of a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a young girl, the wretchedness of an…

— Victor Hugo

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

— Stephen Sondheim

Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany…

— Sylvia Ann Hewlett

The law of the [Cub Scout] pack guides the boys to move in the direction of being helpful, friendly, courteous, trustworthy and…

— John C. Maxwell

“O burn the house! You've murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child - you…

— Edward Bond

“But she wasn't a wife and mother. And, Joey aside, she didn't want to be one. Her mother had spend every last…

— Deeanne Gist

“may be tempting to dismiss these findings as by-products of midlife rather than the presence of teenagers in the house. But Steinberg’s…

— Anonymous

I am pretty conventional, I was raised by a strict mother who said, 'Be sure to open doors and say please thank…

— Chris Pine

“I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce and then to abandon them,…

— Alice Miller

Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism…

— Amanda Lindhout

My family on my mother's side is Irish.

— Sarah Lancashire

I look up to my father in every way.

— Brooke Hogan

Parenting is a learning process.

— Kim Zolciak-Biermann

What least makes a mother is biology.

— Oprah Winfrey

My father instilled in me a love for racing.

— Kurt Busch

My father is my inspiration.

— Mahesh Babu

“But I am your father, and I am terrified of you.”

— Francette Phal

“The daughter prays; the mother listens.”

— Amanda Downum