Parenting Quotes · Page 105

Heaven lieth at the feet of mothers.

— Muhammad

Box about: 'twill come to my father anon.

— John Aubrey

I was baptized by my father when I was 4 years old.

— Mr. T

If you are a parent it helps if you are a grown-up.

— Eda LeShan

My father was absent and he was a hero to me.

— Greta Scacchi

Summer is the mother of the poor.

— Italian Proverb

Birds of a feather really do flock together.

— John C. Maxwell

“I am the man my father loved and was.”

— Derek Walcott

If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.

— Ben Mendelsohn

“Oh Father, oh Mother, forgive us, for we know not what we do.”

— Edna O'Brien

I idolized my father, especially as a young boy. He was bigger than life. He commanded the room.

— Lorenzo Lamas

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

— Anna Godbersen

I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.

— Charlize Theron

I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

— Pamela Anderson

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

— Haley Reinhart

Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God,…

— Anton Corbijn

I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have…

— Gavin Creel

Don't skip class. Just...don't. No good comes from it. Your parents are paying for it so be considerate.

— Anonymous

It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were…

— Jonathan Tropper

“Could it be that the great Bonaparte is incapable of fathering a child? that it is not I who am at fault…

— Carolly Erickson

“Things used to be easy. Flip a switch? On goes the light. Press a button? You’re calling your parents. Swipe a credit…

— Summer Lane

Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that…

— Marc Garneau

“The world is full of women who have children, and women who don’t, but there is also a silent band of women…

— Rachel Joyce

“Then when is?" she cried. "It's my friend who's been taken." "And he wouldn't have been if you were a proper vampire,"…

— Isobelle Cate

“In church she had prayed for contentment. She was thirty, with no husband in sight. A good job, an aging father, a…

— Alice McDermott

“Amy Carmichael's mother taught her to ask anything of God, for He promises to hear and answer. So three-year-old Amy knelt at…

— Richard M. Hannula

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

— Amy Chua

Fred, you next," the plump woman said. "I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother?…

— Anonymous

“Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not…

— Anonymous

Because I have nothing else to live for. You told me of your brother’s betrayal. Imagine your own father calling out his…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it.…

— John Stuart Mill

The father has rarely been celebrated on screen.

— Samuthirakani

My parents didn't really know one another.

— Christopher Durang

So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I punched my mother out once.

— Charles Manson

I was 33 when my father passed away.

— John Carter Cash

“A mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

My parents kept me very grounded.

— Danielle de Niese

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.

— Etta James