Parenting Quotes · Page 992

My father passed away when I was 18. It was the worst thing that ever happened to me, but it is not…

— Reed Morano

When I go to speak at schools, I speak to mothers and fathers, because the way we are raising kids in our…

— Mahima Chaudhry

A father who is distracted for a few minutes by his myriad interests and obligations in the world of adult interactions is…

— Kim Brooks

I had intelligent, high-minded, liberal parents who wanted to make sure my values were just like theirs.

— Jennifer Grey

My father is Polish, and at 68, he still wears a Speedo to the beach, and he wears regular briefs - so…

— Antoni Porowski

My father, Donald, came from Jamaica to study economics. My mother, Shyamala, came from India to study the science of fighting disease.

— Kamala Harris

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love…

— Richard Steele

If you consider a small city like Indore, break-ups are not so common there. I remember my parents, like any normal couple,…

— Ankita Lokhande

“His father in law, who was as old as the century, had just retired and was living in a country house in…

— Harry Mulisch

What we have seen in the way of adaptation and adjustment seems to indicate that families are adjusting parenting to the world…

— Sheila Kamerman

You were born to lead as mothers and fathers because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family. You were…

— Anonymous

“I went on to spend an inordinate amount of my childhood bashfully attached to my mother's pelvis, mostly out of social anxiety,…

— Matt Bellassai

“I turn to our father, searching for an ally. "So Dad, is it legal for Bronte to date out of her species?"…

— Neal Shusterman

You kids have fun, and be home by Thanksgiving!" our parents would call to us on Halloween night, as we staggered out…

— Dave Barry

In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I…

— Christopher Hitchens

“And then they were at Tristran's old home, where his sister waited for him, and there was a steaming breakfast on the…

— Neil Gaiman

The first time I was nominated for an award for professional acting, I was in my mid-twenties. I was married and the…

— Tyne Daly

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now.…

— Dorothy Hamill

The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she…

— Kelly Corrigan

I didn't know music either, but I became a composer. Acting too is like that. It's like cooking for your siblings when…

— Vijay Antony

Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We…

— Boyd K. Packer

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life,…

— Anonymous

I bought a house in England in 1990, shortly after my father died, hoping to come home to England and spend time…

— Christine McVie

“I know I have a strong India connect. Is it Subhash Chandra Bose or my father who left my Austrian mother when…

— Tuhin A. Sinha

Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come…

— Felicity Jones

Earth, Ashes to ashes and dust to dust in mother earth we place our trust and as we cycle through our years…

— Nancy Holder

“At first we tried to keep up, but soon we were tired of boiling and pickling and deviling, and my mother started…

— Wendelin Van Draanen

Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence

— Anonymous

“She was emotionally retarded having no sense of humour, cold and no people skills. She was like her mother was obsessed by…

— Annette J Dunlea

... Who alive can say 'Thou art no Poet - mayst not tell thy dreams'? Since every man whose soul is not…

— John Keats

Evie ” came his faint whisper “I’m going to your mother see…she’s got ’em to leave a back door open…so I can…

— Lisa Kleypas

Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and…

— Indira Gandhi

My father used to say to me, 'Whenever you get into a jam, whenever you get into a crisis or an emergency,…

— Anonymous

I wish my parents got me into a sport when I was young and kept me committed so I'd have a nice…

— Anonymous

I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

My first strong musical memory is of the Villa-Lobos Sixth Quartet which my parents were rehearsing. I remember that it reminded me…

— Leonard Slatkin

What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God, living…

— Henry Blackaby

“Sometimes Umit thought that the books read them. To him it looked as if the books were holding his parents, and reading…

— Raj Doctor

Parents, problems, friends, fakes, boys, love, crush, dating, responsibility, drama, heartache, failures, stress, happiness...It's life.

— Anonymous

America, to me, is this enormous contrast between the heady idealism of founding fathers such as Thomas Jefferson, who said, 'All men…

— Michael Portillo