Parenting Quotes · Page 42

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.

— Susanne Bier

“He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark.”

— Nenia Campbell

People think, "She's just a rich kid." Until I was 18, I was. Then I was broke. I've never taken a dime…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

Both my parents are actors, in very different ways.

— Linus Roache

My parents never really lecture me.

— Anonymous

I always looked up to my mother. My father was never around.

— Cedric Alexander

I always assumed that, like my mother before me, one day I would have children. When I was 5, my fantasy was…

— Kim Cattrall

My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.

— Charles Kuralt

I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought…

— Ernest Hemingway

To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today's story is that fatherhoodis…

— David Blankenhorn

“The child comes home and the parent puts the hooks in him. The old man, or the woman, as the case may…

— Robert Penn Warren

Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is…

— Orson F. Whitney

“To live the same family life as his father and forefathers—that is, in the same condition of culture—and to bring up his…

— Anton Chekhov

You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other…

— George Saunders

I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.

— Philippe Halsman

My youngest sister, Cindy, has Down syndrome, and I remember my mother spending hours and hours with her, teaching her to tie…

— Amy Chua

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I…

— Angelina Jolie

I was never cut out to be a mother - I was no good.

— Debbie Rowe

[One] principle that actuated the lives of the fathers who founded our Constitution was faith in God.

— David O. McKay

My parents are famously not part of the gestalt of the fashion industry.

— David Lauren

“People will always try to steal your power. When you do well, they’ll say it’s only because you’re rich and your parents…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“Dear Father, I thank You that You don’t just give me strength, but You are my strength. Amen. —Karen Barber”

— Guideposts

Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.

— Anonymous

When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people…

— George Clinton

I am God's creation, My parents' decoration, The youth of the nation, Empowered by my friends motivation... And I'm proud of being…

— Anonymous