Parenting Quotes · Page 108

“The heavenly Father is a hope to the hopeless.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Every success is the mother of countless others.

— Henry Ford

Loving families value effort as much as success.

— Wes Fesler

I became the kind of parent my mother was to me.

— Maya Angelou

I compete. I live to compete and to be a father.

— Matt Mitrione

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

— Buffalo Bill

A novelist is a man who doesn't like his mother.

— Georges Simenon

Nobody else could train me like my father could.

— Shane Mosley

It's pretty cool, having my father be such a great player.

— Domantas Sabonis

“I’ll name my firstborn child Squiblob, after his mother.”

— Jarod Kintz

My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.

— Caitlin Moran

My grandfather was facing this terror, my parents, myself.

— Ariel Sharon

My father kicked me out of the house by the time I was 16.

— Malik Yoba

I'm trying to be the best father and take care of my kids.

— Drew Lachey

“The faithfulness of the heavenly father is forever sure.”

— Laiah Gifty Akita

“That's the mission of a father: to reassure and protect.”

— Brooke and Keith Desserich

Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.

— Bill Cosby

“My father says I have a knack for business. And he should know, because he’s been bankrupt several times.”

— Jarod Kintz

My mother wouldn't let me play football because she was afraid I would get hurt, so I played flag football.

— Sean Astin

You have to learn to stand on your own two feet without a father figure around. You have to set an example.

— Callum Wilson

“That was one thing I could be sure of, that my mother loved me. Fuck anyone who tried to come between us.”

— Diane Guerrero

Both my parents were professional actors, so I grew up in a household that had no real financial stability.

— Bettany Hughes

My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature.

— Emily Giffin

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on…

— Lincoln Steffens

Honesty remains the best policy. If parents use alcohol in moderation in front of young children, that provides the right model. Drug…

— David Elkind

My parents had very strict rules about TV watching. They didn't want me to ever watch it during the week and my…

— Leslie Grossman

“Goats did have names for themselves, she well knew: there was 'goat who is my kid,' 'goat who is my mother,' 'goat…

— Terry Pratchett

Everyone has values, and values their family, values their health, their sanity, their safety and security, and their families, their parents, their…

— Surya Das

My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So,…

— Ben Elliot

I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever…

— Don Shula

“St. Francis knew the bear to be born formless licked into shape by its mother. So too were pagans licked into shape…

— Nancy Boutilier

“Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings. Once the lights are out, you…

— Jim Gaffigan

Gender reassignment is an exorcism of the mother

— Germaine Greer

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

— Renee Fleming

My plan was never to be an actor like my father.

— Alexander Skarsgard

My mother says I used to breast-feed in a split.

— Dree Hemingway

My father only hit me once, but he used a Volvo.

— Bob Monkhouse

I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.

— bell hooks

I am blessed to be a proud father of a daughter.

— Adnan Sami

“You travel faster alone, but farther together.”

— Michael Benanav