Parenting Quotes · Page 142

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

— Hippocrates

If you are working or a veteran or a parent, time is often the most precious commodity.

— Neil Bush

Please spare us the self-pity about how tough it is to look for a job while living with your parents.

— Bret Stephens

Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations

— Gayle Forman

My father was just 9 when he started as a child actor in 'Afsana.'

— Javed Jaffrey

“He replied to them, “My mother and My brothers are those who hear and do the word of God. ”Luke 8:21”

— Beth Moore

I can't tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo.

— Jennie Finch

“I try to remember what my mother said about sympathy and putting myself in someone else’s shoes.”

— Ella Dominguez

When it came time for college, I told my parents I was going to major in acting. And they were so removed…

— Geena Davis

“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China…

— Stephen Chbosky

Music's always been a big part of my life. Because of my father, I was always surrounded by music and musicians, and…

— Timothy B. Schmit

I would phone my parents every single night, crying: 'I hate it!' And they were not nice to me in RADA, it…

— Joanna Page

“How we ever came from the same parents is a wonder. Nothing suits you more than a crowd, and nothing suits me…

— Nora Roberts

My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.

— Anne Reid

My parents got me into tennis, and it's why I do what I do, and probably why I do it as well…

— Taylor Fritz

I don't relate to that angst-y kid who hates their parents because they were horrible. It's just not my life and it's…

— Ana Ortiz

Innocent parents might have thought that a musical cartoon version of a fairy tale would be a child's ideal introduction to movie…

— Richard Corliss

We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy. The politicians in charge…

— Wendy Davis

“We passed more people, unsure of who was running and who was chasing. I saw parents carrying their young children, and pulling…

— Jamie McGuire

“Always the fear of consequences. Always this terrible inertia. What he was about to do to his father was so huge, so…

— Zadie Smith

I saw some piglets suckling their dead mother. After a short while they shuddered and went away. They had sensed that she…

— Confucius

My father built me a theatre behind the house where I could put on plays. Dear me, I'm making it sound a…

— James Ivory

You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow, that's too bad,' and then most people tend…

— Jake Owen

My father was raised by a violent alcoholic. There was alcoholism in my mother's family. I'm half-adopted, and my birth father was…

— Melissa Febos

My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people you're with.

— Mario Van Peebles

A child learns lessons in life more from his unhappy parents than his happy ones.

— Vikrant Parsai

Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children.

— Diane Cilento

Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!

— Swami Vivekananda

What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.

— Lynn Barber

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

— Sigmund Freud

My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.

— Zaha Hadid

Mothers and children are human beings, and they will sometimes do the wrong thing.

— Maurice Sendak

Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on

— Camryn Manheim

Mother Nature made me the way I am, and I should be happy.

— Karolina Kurkova

There is nothing so humbling as being a parent to young children!

— Joe Kennedy III

Guns don't kill people. Hot girls with scary fathers kill people.

— Nishan Singh

There's a lot of people in show business who have show business parents.

— Bebe Buell

Being a father brings with it a lot of responsibilities, just like being a goalkeeper does.

— P. R. Sreejesh

As parenting goes, knowing the whereabouts of one's children is pretty fundamental.

— Katie Hopkins

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

— Jennifer Aniston