Parenting Quotes · Page 152

Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

— Bill Cosby

“She’s not a demon, she’s a woman,” my mother said sadly. “In this case, that’s worse.”

— Alice Hoffman

One of the privileges of adulthood is that your parents don't get to tell you what to do.

— Amy Dickinson

I became a writer because I got addicted to story. The first storyteller in my life was my father.

— Salman Rushdie

If you can't love your parents, you can never love yourself neither.

— Rona Nunez

“My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins.”

— Cynthia Hand

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

— Anonymous

Studying ballet is an expensive endeavor. I know I could never have done it without the generosity and sacrifice of my parents,…

— Michaela DePrince

Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy…

— St. Catherine of Siena

“The never-ending stream-of-consciousness stories planted the seed or God or faith or my dysfunctional family of loving parents.”

— Abigail George

I swore that I wouldn't be one of those parents who leaves a Bugaboo pram parked in the communal entry hall. Well…

— Tom Ford

“No one can make you feel anything you don’t want to feel,” my mother told me once, a complete delusion. He”

— Cat Marnell

I am gods, and he is mines, I am his child, he is my father , he loves me and I love…

— Natalya Johnson

“In this strife-torn valley, I have always been tormented by feelings of indefinite and eternal uncertainty. "The Half Mother" is an outcome…

— Shahnaz Bashir

Since we bash deadbeat dads on father's day, do we celebrate single fathers on mother's day? Or is it just bitter across…

— Anonymous

We inherit a lot from our parents: mom's eyes, dad's chin, and the attitude of whichever parent isn't punishing you at the…

— Milton Berle

I always remember the teachings of our ancestors: respect for God, teacher, government, and both parents. Even after I became president, I…

— Suharto

We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to…

— C. S. Lewis

“When the only answer a little girl ever receives is no, from her parents or her teachers or her world, at some…

— Laura Fitzgerald

“I called her Mrs. Bennington at her insistence. When I'd referred to her as Ms. Bennington, she'd nearly bitten my head off.…

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“I don't know, Jondalar. Maybe you haven't found the right woman. Maybe the Mother has someone special for you. She doesn't make…

— Jean M. Auel

Love involves more than just feelings. It is also a way of behaving. When Sandy said, "My parents don't know how to…

— Susan Forward

We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that…

— Leo Buscaglia

You're a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you're not anymore.

— Tariq Ramadan

My mother taught me when you go someplace, you leave it better than you found it.

— Esai Morales

Over the decades people from all walks of life have told me, 'When your father died, so did my hope.'

— Kerry Kennedy

My family, growing up, we really didn't have tradition because my parents divorced when I was 11.

— Angelina Pivarnick

If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.

— Elizabeth Berg

It is the uninvolved parent who has to resort to strictness.

— Andrea Bocelli

There's nothing more manly than being a good father. Except maybe being a lumberjack and a good father.

— Anonymous

I haven't really given much thought to the whole 'working mother' thing.

— Claire Foy

Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

— John Milton

My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.

— Haile Gebrselassie

There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.

— Anonymous

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

— Diana Ross

“The most important thing anyone can do is raise their kids well.”

— Claire Cross

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car for ever after.

— Peter De Vries

“It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt”

— Anonymous

I consider all women as mother. I compose poems for any female considering her as mother.

— Ilaiyaraaja