Parenting Quotes · Page 113

I grew up with my mother as a Tonic Shaman.

— Borns

“I just buried my mother. I've been better.”

— Rich Allan

My mother was my first jealous lover.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

I'm not made to be a mother.

— Brigitte Bardot

My parents didn't know anything about baseball.

— John Smoltz

Delhi, for me, means my mother and lots of love!

— Aditi Rao Hydari

Necessity, who is the mother of invention.

— Plato

My parents were strict but loving.

— Ann Dowd

Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

— Kate Millett

Mother elephants in the circus cannot help their babies, but we can,

— Edie Falco

There have been a lot of times when work and parenting conflicted for me. Every day.

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

— Clay Aiken

We're not an acting family, but my parents have always encouraged me.

— Keeley Hawes

We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.

— Nelly Sachs

There's just an incredible amount of loneliness as a mother, all this solitude no one really speaks to.

— Catherine Reitman

My father's record collection was all country. That's how I was exposed to it.

— Keith Urban

A lot of people who come to my restaurant bring their parents over because it brings back good memories.

— Alvin Leung

I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no…

— Lana Del Rey

In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning…

— Gloria Steinem

“My father's answer was revenge-has always been revenge-and the outcome was just, but not better. Nothing is fixed.”

— Brenna Yovanoff

When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it.…

— Linda Blair

“If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes.”

— Abraham Lincoln

My father was a physicist, while I am a biogeochemist. I live to study plants, and he has never had more than…

— Hope Jahren

DAUGHTER what is marriage: MOM: Marriage is just a fancy word for adopting an overgrown male child who cannot be handled by…

— Anonymous

“If you wish to serve me, as you have bloodsworn yourself to do, you must do so with honor. And that does…

— C.L. Wilson

“How powerful is the influence of a mother! The bond between mother and child seems to be God-designed, the perfect union of…

— David Jeremiah

“Jo tried to think about her suspicion that Lynn liked her. She figured that Lynn was nice to her because she was…

— Joan Frances Casey

Feel the love of God; then in every person you will see the face of the Father, the light of love which…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“Whenever I hear a kid complain about their parents or even their siblings, I want to shake them. They don't realize what…

— Deb Hanrahan

If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“What did you learn, Little Father?” Cheobawn asked, catching her breath. The boy scowled at her. “It was not a fair fight.…

— J.D. Lakey

My family was very engaged in the world around us. My father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and an immigrant from…

— Gwen Ifill

My mother was pretty much on my case all the time.

— Wesley Snipes

Procastination is the mother of regrets.

— Eraño Gutierrez

“Adoption is grief in reverse.”

— Jody Cantrell Dyer

And my father, after all, was a nationalist.

— Heinrich Mann

Nobody else could train me like my father could.

— Shane Mosley

I've never read one book about my father.

— Ziggy Marley

The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.

— Jean Racine

My parents are pretty cool people.

— Dominic Monaghan