Parenting Quotes · Page 141

No parent would fail to call the doctor if their child developed a fever.

— Kate Middleton

One thing my parents always taught me was to maximize my options.

— Monica Raymund

“when it’s your own child, you are not a babysitter. It’s called parenting.”

— Joanna Campbell Slan

“Yet he knew that destiny played with lives; the most a parent could do was help steer.”

— Tomson Highway

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

— Clarence Darrow

How many ya'll parents smoke weed? My momma still grows illegal weed in Alabama.

— Yelawolf

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

— John Boehner

My mother and father were lovely parents, always quite hard up, but very hard-working.

— Prunella Scales

Patch wasn't the kind of guy mothers smiled on. He was the kind of guy they changed the house locks for.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think…

— Jeff Garcia

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

— Lou Gehrig

She didn't ask to be a mother, She didn't ask to be pregnant, Yet she is. What she does ask for is…

— Luke Parkes

One day, as I was speaking to another mother of a disabled child, I said our secret weapon against this disease is…

— Didi Conn

Tollywood has a special place in my heart because Telugu is my mother tongue, and when I sing in the language, my…

— Armaan Malik

There are people who are afraid to go to confession, forgetting that they will not encounter a severe judge there, but the…

— Pope Francis

India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion,…

— Annie Besant

My father and mother always told me to first do work and then they'll get me to training. So in order for…

— Joao Felix

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of…

— Washington Irving

The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to…

— Fred Rogers

Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts…

— Sandra Scarr

“Become a great artist. That is the only way to justify what you are doing to everyone's life.'... I did not understand…

— Chaim Potok

“My father was a Catholic, a coal miner in the Big Pit. My mother a Jew. A charwoman, when she could find…

— Patrick Reinken

A children's dream is their parent's dream. You can make it come true for us! Don't you realize that our dream is…

— Faith Barroa

“And the son bursting into his father's house, killing him, and at the same time not killing him, this is not even…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I'm endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.

— Rob Delaney

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.

— Washington Irving

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.

— M Grundler

“EVOLUTION A great parent/mentor/teacher will push you beyond their attained status”

— Kamil Ali

“I'm the parent. It's my job to be here for you, not the other way around.”

— Danielle Younge-Ullman

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

— Lorna Luft

My father took me to a lot of sports events as a child, and our TV stayed on ESPN.

— Freddie Gibbs

“My father would never object. He might make a face at first, then take it back.”

— André Aciman

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

— Henry Louis Gates

My parents didn't read to me. My dad was a jobbing labourer, my mother was in the cotton mills.

— Bernard Cribbins

To have been able to buy my parents a house in London is something no one can imagine.

— Katie Melua

“We are mothers; we belong to each other. This coffee brings us together.”

— Tsh Oxenreider

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

— Heather Locklear

I don't think I was all that late in becoming a father.

— Brad Pitt

A mother holds her childs hand for just a short time, but holds their hearts forever.

— Anonymous