Parenting Quotes · Page 110

My father was an ex-Marine Goldwater Republican.

— Steven Van Zandt

Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

The Most Important Woman In My Life Is MY Mother

— Cesar Jeronimo

I look like my mother but behave like my father.

— Arjun Kapoor

“...we mothers lose a lot of sleep, I realized.”

— Linda Greenlaw

My father fled from the North, hating communism.

— Moon Jae-in

But I still always felt the absence of a mother.

— Marcel Carne

My father speaks for himself, through his music.

— Ziggy Marley

I feel proud that I am doing my first film with my father.

— Shriya Pilgaonkar

I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.

— Homer

My husband is a good father, concerned about his children.

— Grace Kelly

As parents, we tend to be in Tell rather than Listen mode.

— Julian Treasure

Mother Nature and Father Time have not been happy with me.

— Mick Foley

A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.

— Amy Tan

A Woman Never Say: You are so much smarter than my father.

— Nikhil Saluja

Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you.

— Matthew Quick

“Sometimes being a mother makes you blind. You think you know what's best and refuse to see any other way.”

— Tracy Holczer

My parents put the New Yorker in my crib. I saw Vogue and Vanity Fair around the house before I could read.

— Richard Avedon

“Nothing in the world could ever compare to the feeling of becoming a parent, no amount of money or power.”

— Jazmyne

“Siblings, more than parents, more than teachers and friends and lovers and pets, shape the people we are.”

— Elisa Albert

“I swear this is the truth: your father is a Norse god. Now, hurry. We’re in a twenty-minute parking spot.”

— Rick Riordan

“Sometimes, in my world where parents hated one another and school was a battleground, it sucked to be me.”

— Jennifer Brown

My Struggles is a record close to me. It's about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.

— Anonymous

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

— David Dinkins

And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in…

— Mark Ruffalo

I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge…

— Frank Abagnale

My mother taught me to be nice to everybody. And she said something before I left home. She said, 'I want you…

— Jason Segel

My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with…

— Andrew Taylor Still

There are very few women from my mother's generation who worked like that, who just kept a career going all her life…

— Carrie Fisher

I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For…

— Madonna Ciccone

I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all…

— Ban Ki-moon

I wanted to be a doctor at some point, and I was always bringing home strays from school: people who were too…

— Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

“For once, I knew how it felt to have a father.”

— Trish Kaye Lleone

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

— Anonymous

Our son Gautam is very shy, just like his father.

— Namrata Shirodkar

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

— Paul Torday

I'm a better actor because I'm a mother, I think.

— Kristin Lehman

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

— Samuel Smiles

According to fathers, their kids are always good.

— Jeetendra

The state is the nursing mother of human culture.

— Joseph Alexander Leighton