Parenting Quotes · Page 116

My father was the quintessential husband and dad.

— Sidney Poitier

Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.

— Ken Livingstone

My father would argue two side of a möbius strip.

— Dan Brown

“Must we make battlegrounds out of our children?”

— Sarah Perry

Growing up, as a kid, my father was always there.

— Jason Pierre-Paul

Boys need fathers, and you can't do that in jail.

— Nate Dogg

I delayed my father's funeral because of cricket.

— Virat Kohli

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

— Antonia Fraser

Parents should support and love their kids no matter what.

— Tracy Morgan

You can't stop father time... but you can show [him] down.

— Karl Malone

“fancied, like a child that is stabbed by his own father.”

— Adriana Koulias

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

— Virginia Woolf

One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.

— Rachel Zucker

Yeah getting cheated on is terrible...try losing a parent.

— Anonymous

My father was a cocky, long-haired musician, a songwriter.

— Joe Calzaghe

Anger does nobody good, patience is father of disposition.

— David Ayodeji

My mates and my family know who I am and that's all I really care about. Making my parents proud and happy.

— Sarah Greene

The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything.

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

One thing I wanted to do from when I was young was buy my parents a house. I have done that in…

— Wilfried Zaha

Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand.

— Bill Cosby

I think once you're a mother, you kind of always see your kids as a baby anyway no matter how old they…

— Molly Ringwald

My parents would say, 'Why don't you go out and play?' and I would say, 'I can't! I'm putting on my shows!'

— Andy Kaufman

All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened.

— James Cook

Nicolette, Kendalle, and Alexandra are my children. Their mother, Cynthia Beck, and I, love them very much.

— Gordon Getty

A full accounting of adoption as an option would not underestimate its emotional challenges - the grief and loss for birth mothers,…

— Nina Easton

My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love…

— Armistead Maupin

I almost moved into a place over a funeral parlor. My father said, 'That's just too macabre,' but I thought I'd be…

— Jennifer Connelly

“We saved the lives of a whole family that night. Children, parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, all sailed to safety in Sweden inside…

— Steen Langstrup

It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything…

— Jerry Kramer

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way…

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

My mother emigrated from Russia as a young child. She couldn't speak English and had no education. Her father died at age…

— Dianne Feinstein

Success isn't ideal for every child. If we think a child would do better in a different school, whether it's a specialized…

— Eva Moskowitz

My mother passed. She passed when I was 10 or 11.

— Barry Keoghan

The fatherhood thing is easy - when you're there.

— Ginuwine

“There is no Divine Helper like heavenly Father.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Ennui, the parent of expensive and ruinous vices.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

The precursor of the mirror is the mother's face.

— Donald Woods Winnicott

For me, all mother in the world are my goddesses.

— Yoseob

A good mother is worth hundreds of school masters

— Komal

We just set an example as parents by giving back.

— Cynthia Germanotta