Parenting Quotes · Page 140

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

— Ed Asner

I come from a business family. I rebelled from my father to become a musician.

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend.

— Suzy Favor Hamilton

Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

— Donny Osmond

I alone am different from the others, because I am nourished by the great mother.

— Laozi

My mother always said, 'The best way to ruin a story is to tell the other side.'

— Gordon Smith

My name is an Italian name because my father is an Italian and my mother is Indian.

— Dino Morea

Only Jesus can truly talk in third person--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

— Daniel Ellcey

You might worry you will get looked down on if you're not this rough, tough, don't show your feelings guy, but being…

— Jordy Nelson

“You poor lonely boy,' she cried, 'it's so dreadful for you to have no parents.' Well, as my mother was a whore,…

— W. Somerset Maugham

My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.

— Hafez Nazeri

We had to give each other permission to be different as parents. That's why there's a mom and a dad with two…

— Bridgette Wilson

You live, you learn. That's part about being a man, being a father and being a fighter for the first time.

— Jeremy Stephens

I have to say that since my mother died, I am not the same person anymore. My life has changed a great…

— Sophia Loren

My mother taught me to wash my hair as little as possible, and to rinse it with Coke before a shoot for…

— Lou Doillon

When you have a Jewish mother who has a very strong Jewish family, it's very ethnic in its practices. Eating brisket, the…

— Anonymous

[My kids] are, sweet, kind, funny, smart, respectful people, and they treat everybody with respect. That's not just the biases of a…

— Barack Obama

“the only unfailing guide I’ve ever found through the innumerable blind alleys of my life as a writer, man, husband, father, citizen,…

— David James Duncan

“She was the youngest of the two daughters of a most affectionate, indulgent father; and had, in consequence of her sister's marriage,…

— Jane Austen

According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the…

— Questlove

“What scared Stanley the most about dying wasn't his actual death. He figured he could handle the pain. It wouldn't be much…

— Louis Sachar

My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was…

— Megan Follows

“Only a woman can carry in her body an eternal being which bears the very image of God. Only she is the…

— Douglas W. Phillips

I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death…

— Robert Crais

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

— Jhumpa Lahiri

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

— Nick Park

How old am I? I'm as old as my mother told me. How's that?

— Charles Manson

My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.

— Bill de Blasio

If I had talked to my parents like some of the kids do now. I would not be here to post this...

— Suman Rai

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

— Michael Reagan

I always had a work ethic. And I think I very much got that from my father and my mother.

— John Waters

My father was proud that people thought I was a good actress. I'm the only child. And daddy's girl.

— Ann-Margret

Every person should get knowledge from lap of his mother till death.

— Holy Prophet Hazrat MUHAMMAD

One would think he never sucked at his mother’s breast.

— Chinua Achebe

Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing.

— Robert Morgan

Mother is the name of God in the lips and hearts of children.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press.

— Henry Reed

This is not a love song I don't sing my mother tongue.

— Rammstein

The enemy of a father will never be friends of his son.

— Vikrant Parsai

We don't want to cross too many lines or offend the parents at all.

— Trace Cyrus