Parenting Quotes · Page 1,296

“Always have a purpose,' his father used to tell him. 'Act like you're heading someplace purposeful, and none of the low-life will…

— Anne Tyler

“Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote. I remember…

— Elena Ferrante

I work very regular hours, roughly 9 to 5:30. I think I have it much easier than a lot of parents. I…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

My parents never pushed me towards music. I feel like, growing up in a musical household and always being surrounded by it,…

— Dua Lipa

“Mother Goose will show newcomers to this world how astonishing, beautiful, capricious, dancy, eccentric, funny, goluptious, haphazard, intertwingled, joyous, kindly, loving, melodious,…

— Iona Opie

I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they…

— Carrie Fisher

“We were already mothers then, some by heart and some by womb. We rocked grandbabies left in our care and taught the…

— Brit Bennett

I joined a campus competition, as I felt I could do comedy, and I won. Then I started doing standup gigs in…

— Ronny Chieng

On Sunday the 26th of January this happened to me: i was with my mate and we were going swimming at a…

— Crystal Sawyer

The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to…

— Erma Bombeck

My mother and grandmother are very supportive of me, and they always have a say in things. They also really help with…

— Vidya Vox

My older brother went into another city for college, and I felt like I wanted to stay in my home town to…

— Eric Yuan

Parents impatiently see us growing up. As old age is inevitable they gradually Become older and older. We seldom think it. But…

— Pramod Wickramathilaka

“We'd all turn our backs on privilege, but comfortably, the way you can when you still have access to it. No one…

— David Sedaris

Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly…

— Delbert L. Stapley

“The best love in the world, is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb,…

— C. JoyBell C

I'm the mother of two daughters, one of whom is going to get possessed. It's really spooky and great. I'm shooting it…

— Geena Davis

I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother…

— Patti Davis

“There are many roles that people play and many images that they project. There is, for example, the "nice" man who is…

— Alexander Lowen

Adolescents do get very angry with their parents, and acknowledging this anger is part of acknowledging them. If the anger is notacknowledged…

— Terri E Apter

“What are we calling that, exactly?” I ask. Arthur ponders this for a moment. “Hmm. How about … Haphazard Medley Inspired By…

— Hannah Johnson

“All social orders command their members to imbibe in pipe dreams of posterity, the mirage of immortality, to keep them ahead of…

— Thomas Ligotti

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never…

— Sally Ride

When I was a kid, we'd go to the movies, and my parents would reach out to everyone around us in the…

— Daniel Lubetzky

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real…

— Allan Houston

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he…

— Anonymous

“Your mother said I was a patient man. I can be, under some circumstances. I'll wait, because you'll come to me. There's…

— Nora Roberts

“I can't stand to see you punish yourself." I regarded him with wariness. "Do what?" "Continue to punish youself for your father's…

— Jeaniene Frost

My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they…

— Grace Slick

“The engineer’s ready capitulation, however, did not hide from the poet’s mother the sad realization that the adventure into which she had…

— Milan Kundera

I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's…

— Ryan Phillippe

“Across from me at the kitchen table, my mother smiles over red wine that she drinks out of a measuring glass. She…

— Lily Myers

When the time came that His first-born, the Saviour, should come into the world and take a tabernacle, the Father came Himself…

— Brigham Young

I am a very hardworking mother and my kids keep me fit. Also, being a working mother, you are always on the…

— Sussanne Khan

I see my parents as tiny children who need love. I have compassion for my parents’ childhoods. I now know that I…

— Louise Hay

My father hired you to protect me," Ahmed said, "not to go off chasing men." Grandma leaned forward, keeping her eye on…

— Janet Evanovich

After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly…

— Pedro Almodovar

“That's my town,' Joaquin said. 'What a fine town, but how the buena gente, the good people of that town, have suffered…

— Ernest Hemingway

Thank you," the young mother said again. "Thank you." "The Black Tower protects," Logain heard himself say. "Always." "I will send him…

— Robert Jordan