Parenting Quotes · Page 171

My father worked very hard and he never missed a day of work, no matter how sick he was.

— Michael Chiesa

I had two parents who were doctors, and my mom was valedictorian in multiple classes.

— John T. Chambers

Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.

— John Hartford

“These stories depressed me. Love ruined people's lives, the way our parents said drugs could.”

— Mona Simpson

“I weigh more than a mountain but less than a feather.”

— Patrick Ness

A mother's love! O holy, boundless thing! Fountain whose waters never cease to spring!

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Giving back is really important. My mother always instilled in me that you have to help others.

— Vick Hope

“A daily appointment with mother nature keeps one from booking an appointment with the doctor.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

It's been 8 years since my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. So shout out to my beautiful mother for being the…

— Anonymous

Women have a mother-nature and a daughter-nature; there are no women with a wife-nature. The quality of wife is an acquired character;…

— Lu Xun

“Every child has to raise itself.’ Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction.”

— Anne Frank

“There is nothing more pathetically sad than a parent who teaches a child not to hit by spanking them. Well, that, and…

— Anitra Lynn McLeod

The entire 'Top Chef' experience was a learning experience. I learned about myself as a competitor, a teammate, a friend, a chef,…

— Antonia Lofaso

I'm not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn't born to the purple.

— Anonymous

“. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin…

— Edward Clodd

That's what I think our jobs as parents are, to educate as much as possible... I tell them to follow their bliss.…

— Art Alexakis

My view of addiction, whether it's drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my…

— Bernie Siegel

Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties…

— Peter York

“What Evie needed was a little hair of the dog, but her parents had confiscated her hip flask. It was a swell…

— Libba Bray

Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or…

— Amos Oz

“He leaned over the rail and stared down into the Pool with interest. It was certainly not much of a place, the…

— Daphne du Maurier

I don't sign autographs when I'm out for a meal or out with my kids. I think that's rude and disrespectful. I…

— Tim Howard

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view…

— Bertrand Russell

All my feather stuff is in L.A. at a temperature-controlled stage-storage place. I keep all my good stuff there because if I…

— Stevie Nicks

Neither of my parents live in Oakland anymore. They both got priced out.

— Daveed Diggs

They say that parenting is like dancing. You take one step, your child takes another.

— Michael Jackson

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

— Deborah Norville

Writing 'Father Ted' with Arthur Mathews was like being hooked up to a drip full of endorphins.

— Graham Linehan

My father died when I was 28, and within two-and-a-half years of that, I lost my first son.

— Nana Patekar

My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.

— Jack Kerouac

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

— Maya Rudolph

“If I guess your secret, will you tell me if I'm right?" His father laughed but didn't answer.”

— Robert Liparulo

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

— Yo-Yo Ma

I really think some people have an aptitude for being parents while others don't.

— Reham Khan

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

— Spike Milligan

“Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime'.”

— Oscar Wilde

The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.

— Adolf Hitler

“You, you insolent brazen bitch—you really dare to shake that monstrous spear in Father’s face?”

— Homer

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

— Ellen Barkin

I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I wont be getting out of line anytime soon.

— Alexa Vega