Parenting Quotes · Page 10

I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in…

— Al McGuire

Having parents who are chicken sexers - I had trouble explaining that to kids at school!

— Lee Isaac Chung

Ladies, [motherhood] is a full-time job. Do not kid yourself that you can be a dental receptionist and a mother; that you…

— Alistair Begg

I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan.…

— Sebastian Arcelus

“Rehvenge, I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.” “I thought your mother was dead.” “She is.” “You have…

— J.R. Ward

I had children very young. You go through a period of immense guilt about being a working mother.

— Adena Friedman

Along with a livable wage, many parents are desperate for quality affordable child care.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

Growing up without a father figure is tough but still it only makes you stronger!

— Anonymous

Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of…

— Giuseppe Mazzini

My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in…

— America Ferrera

My parents subscribed to both Time and Newsweek and in 1978, I remember the covers of both that December were of the…

— Julia Scheeres

A heartbreak isnt as loud as a bomb exploding. Sometimes it can be as quiet as a feather falling and the most…

— Superman

When I was born, my father was governor of Arkansas.

— Chelsea Clinton

“But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents’ generation seems neither able…

— Douglas Coupland

Love your mother, the most beautiful person on this earth. Our best critic, yet our strongest supporter.

— Anonymous

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”

— Amy Tan

“When you're in trouble, go and see your mother.”

— Paul Torday

By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship…

— Iain Duncan Smith

“Every child should be read to.”

— Kim Hansen

My relationship with my parents is among the greatest gifts of my life.

— Christopher Castellani

The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape…

— Alicia Ostriker

Buy her flowers? Take her home on the weekend to meet your mother? No. Let's cut to the primal, be good in…

— Jamie Bell

Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with. If I'd had a sister or a brother closer in age,…

— Kathryn Stockett

I try to be a good father, and my kids are the most important thing in my life.

— Wagner Moura