Parenting Quotes · Page 121

A babe is a mother's anchor.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“You travel faster alone, but farther together.”

— Michael Benanav

“mothers lie. It´s in the job description.”

— John Green

I have a child and I'm a parent first of all.

— Izabella Scorupco

I loved my mother, but I don't like her.

— Mickey Rourke

My parents are very similar to me.

— Fernando Alonso

She took my food, so I took her mother out..

— Lonniedagreat

I am a product of my father's work.

— Royce Gracie

What, at Peace with the Father, and at War with the (His) Children! It cannot be.

— John Flavel

“Her father was dying, and he wanted her forgiveness.”

— Nicholas Sparks

Parents should never have to bury their own children.

— Alex Jones

“Though to be fair, "I live with my mother" is not the sexiest thing a man in his mid-forties can say.”

— Marshall Thornton

I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.

— Mason Cooley

We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.

— Wynton Marsalis

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

— Anonymous

The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.

— Saadi

[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that…

— Martin Luther

My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India.

— Nita Ambani

After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the…

— Tina Turner

If more husbands and fathers would put as much energy into their marriages and families as they do their jobs, the world…

— Mark Hart

Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his…

— Miguel de Cervantes

The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, candefend Against itself. At its mercy, we…

— Wallace Stevens

I just write the characters the way I see them. And maybe that's because I'm surrounded by the most amazing men,from my…

— Gena Showalter

“O Father, console them and please spare our country from that terrible disaster, not because we are any better but only out…

— Diet Eman

After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was…

— Marsha Norman

I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I keep thinking my father gave me Turgenev, and then I realize at some point, Oh, this is a false memory. I…

— Marco Roth

It was the first fight I had with my father. My father basically said, why are you going to business school? You're…

— Diana Taylor

“If your voice could overwhelm those waters, what would it say? What would it cry of the child swept under, the mother…

— Adrienne Rich

“A Skalan trader tried to tell me the streets of his cities were paved with gold," Alec went on. "I didn't believe…

— Lynn Flewelling

“I’m a husband, a father of two, a full-time teacher, and so my writing process mostly involves sitting down and writing, any…

— Glen Hirshberg

Mother Earth is very talented.

— Nhat Hanh

All these mother effin' hoes be sayin' shit.

— Ashley Audacity

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

— Benjamin Franklin

My mother was a good woman.

— Logic

Television is the third parent.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“Submit to the Father of spirit, God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I was flabbergasted when I became a mother.

— Michele Lamy

As a father, you become more responsible.

— Naseem Hamed