Parenting Quotes · Page 150

My father was always there for me when I lost. But, then, I never really lost when my father was there.

— Laurie Beth Jones

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

— Alice Walker

If your mother still drives you to school, you are not a gangster, pull your pants up!

— Bill Engvall

My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.

— Ozzy Osbourne

My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.

— Deana Carter

“To be a father means above all to be at the service of life and growth”

— Scott Hahn

My father was a farm boy who never learned to be holding and supportive.

— Mariette Hartley

No guilt can ever match the guilt you feel after hurting your parents knowingly.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

She introduced herself to my parents with one of her mighty, bunny-crushing handshakes. (I'd never seen Claudia crush a bunny, to be…

— Maureen Johnson

Frankly my parents didn't like him. They objected to the things he stood for. Besides, daddy and Hef are the same age.

— Barbi Benton

“Parenting role-play change every ten years from affection to duty to responsibility, and then the cycle must reverse with next generation playing…

— Sandeep Sahajpal

My parents are small business owners, and the Korean community, like a lot of immigrant communities, is very much owner-driven.

— Su-chin Pak

In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are…

— Tea Obreht

Heavenly Father is constantly raining blessings upon us, but it is our fear, doubt, and sin that, like an umbrella, block these…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone…

— Lil Mama

As soon as we find ourselves working at being indispensable, rigging up a pattern of vulnerability in our loved ones, we know…

— Germaine Greer

Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's…

— Christopher Hitchens

We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went…

— Binyavanga Wainaina

That's where the Black Keys and Jack White have succeeded and I've failed: They've actually convinced college kids that they're listening to…

— Joe Bonamassa

Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite…

— Caryl Rivers

My parents had this massive record player in the living room, a 'blue spot grand' they called it... it used up an…

— Lenny Henry

“Google, his mother says. The new new found land. Not so long ago it was only the mentally deranged, the unworldly pedants,…

— Ali Smith

When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection of others,…

— Angel Abrea

“You don't belong here if you are unhappy," she continued. "Your mother makes you hateful, and you make her hateful. It doesn't…

— Laura Moriarty

The best kind of love sisters can have is the kind that just wants to drive the parents crazy.

— Savannah Whalen

Between the two [parents], it was a really unique upbringing, I think, especially for where I was from.

— Mahershala Ali

Being a Bengali, I have kept in touch with the cinema of my mother tongue.

— Sharmila Tagore

Taking me to Heaven cause I'm lighter than a feather. You get em wet, but I get em wetter.

— Kreayshawn

My Dad was a tailor and he would give my mother housekeeping money each week and call it her 'wages.'

— Maureen Lipman

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

— Victoria Abril

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

— Roger von Oech

“The truth is that the idea of home and the idea of our mother and father were inseparable.”

— Siri Hustvedt

The Parent Trap wouldn't have been as special without the remarkable performances by Hayley Mills.

— Maureen O'Hara

“Her name was Mary, and there ends any resemblance to the mother of our Lord.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“You're gonna be a freaking appendage in their lives. They'll have a mother and an appendage.”

— Michael Baron

No parent should have their child die before he or she does.

— Phil Knight

My parents are not theatrical people, but my dad took me to the theater.

— Kate Fleetwood

“That is the most godlike feeling a human can experience; being ignored by rebellious child.”

— Dennis Garvin

My father was deafened at the age of six months from spinal meningitis, so he never knew sound at all.

— Paul Raci

In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present.

— Dani Shapiro