Parenting Quotes · Page 170

The mirror is the mother dew, the book of desiccated twilights, echo become flesh.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

I'm a parent now, so if I haven't matured, then my kid is in a lot of trouble.

— Everlast

“Wishes father thought, but they don't breed evidence.”

— John Galsworthy

“Won without a drop of bloodshed. His mother had been right. That truly was the best victory.”

— Meljean Brook

“-My father never taught me mercy. -And can you not learn?”

— Leigh Bardugo

The principal event of my childhood was that no adult in my family would tell me who my father was.

— John Irving

“You are to my soul what God is to a mother praying for her child at the altar.”

— Malak El Halabi

Being a mother is everything I hoped it would be and more. It's wonderful.

— Nicole Richie

I hate having to ask permission to do everything, its one of those gay things that comes with being young & having…

— Anonymous

Shondaland is my company. I run that mother. I am in charge. I am the leader. It's fantastic. It's also really hard.…

— Shonda Rhimes

I lost my mom to breast cancer, and then I lost my father three years later. I thought, 'What am I waiting…

— Connie Britton

If someone would ask me to choose between TV and films, I would go for TV. I am content with it. Also,…

— Sonali Bendre

As much success came to him, my father stayed true to his promise. He built the hospital to help the most helpless…

— Marlo Thomas

My father is a very skilled carpenter. He can do just about anything with his hands. He is very artistic with his…

— Coy Bowles

For my father, he didn't know what 'Grey's Anatomy' was. He didn't know who John Mayer was. But when I showed up…

— Mat Kearney

My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his…

— Troy Garity

Instead of celebrating what makes each child unique, most parents push their children to "fit in" so that they don't "stick out."…

— Tom Rath

There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our…

— David McCullough

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to…

— Josh Gad

I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America…

— Caroline Kennedy

“I've never regretted it. Questioned it? Sure. But never regretted." "Is there a difference?" I ask. "Absolutely. Regret is counterproductive. It's looking…

— Colleen Hoover

In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals… The familybecame a special…

— Kenneth Keniston

“There are people who cannot say good-bye They are born this way/this is how they die They are the keepers of promises/what…

— Merrit Malloy

Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is…

— Groucho Marx

If you cant live without me, why arent you dead yet?

— Anonymous

What I love about kids is there innate ability to love unconditionally - we can all learn from this

— Kevin Heath

That awkward moment , when your friend is getting yelled at by there parents.

— Anonymous

“An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.”

— John Steinbeck

“You just stood up to your mother… I should think now you could take on the world.”

— Elizabeth Strout

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

— Roger Moore

You know you mean something to a guy, when he turns to his mother and askes what to do…

— Anonymous

Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands

— Judy Blume

As a parent, the only thing I am absolutely certain of is my own fallibility.

— Ayelet Waldman

I belong to a middle class family from Bhopal. My father was fearless.

— Jaya Bachchan

A father is a guy who has photos in his wallet where his money used to be.

— Anonymous

I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire world.

— Taylor Spreitler

“Now, get the fuck out of here.” My father, the wordsmith. ****”

— James Cox

Parents should leave books lying around marked ‘forbidden’ if they want their children to read.

— Doris Lessing

“Her bitch of a mother shot me and I'm only worried about her. Go figure.”

— J.M. Darhower

“Phoebe had become two almost-spectral things: a widow to a living man, and a childless mother”

— Randy Susan Meyers