Parenting Quotes · Page 172

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.

— Jennifer Aniston

I think that I did inherit a very expressive face from my mother and my grandmother.

— Randy Rainbow

Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.

— Anne Geddes

“The bond between a mother and her offspring is strong.”

— Ashley Farley

I'm afraid of my mother's paranoia. The more she watches Fox News, the more afraid she gets.

— Scott Adsit

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.

— Eminem

We are too busy growing up not realizing that our parents are getting old.

— Anonymous

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

— Dan Quayle

Though I'm a very broad-minded girl, I don't think any parent would appreciate their daughter stripping on-screen.

— Sana Khan

I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost…

— Glenn Close

I learned a lot of empathy and openness from my parents. I know so many people who don't have that experience.

— Arlo Parks

If anyone does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for his Mother, he will not have Christ for his Brother.

— Maximilian Kolbe

Money is a life skill – and as parents, grandparents, interested adults – it's up to us to make sure our children…

— Sharon Lechter

“...her father was soothed by these attentions, as if pain were an appetite for comforting of just this kind.”

— Marilynne Robinson

I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good…

— Minnie Driver

A mother is like an island in life's ocean vast and wide, a peaceful quiet shelter from the restless tide.

— Anonymous

The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women's equal rights to jointly-created career…

— Warren Farrell

The tendency is to think if you are a professional woman, it's because you've turned your back on the traditional side. The…

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

“A mother is the person who takes care of you when you're sick. The one who holds you when you're afraid. The…

— Kat Attalla

I know a lot of people that have lost siblings, and it's not really discussed as much. I feel like you talk…

— Bridget Everett

“He loved his mother: doesn't that warm your silly, sentimental, twentieth-century heart? He loved his father. He loved his sister. He loved…

— Julian Barnes

“Great artistic works are often based on solving several psychological problems simultaneously. In literature this is often accomplished by splitting apart the…

— Linda Austin

“Dear Heavenly Father, I thank You for the Bible verses that teach me how important my words are. My words can cause…

— Glenn Langohr

he hardest obstacle for me has been to find a father. I am the product of three fathers, and my connection to…

— Damon Runyon

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a step dad.

— Anonymous

“How easily a parent’s motive could be misconstrued by an injured child.”

— Susan Vreeland

“Victory is possible. Genuine healing can occur if we're willing to allow the Father to set us free.”

— Charles F. Stanley

“For some reason his parents had a low opinion of his common sense.”

— Elizabeth Peters

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

— Jay Leno

“When demons call you the Mother of Destruction, sh*t gets real." Muse.”

— Pippa DaCosta

The only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother, and I call him Gamblor!

— Homer

Your mother’s heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last.

— Dave Brubeck

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Indigo,’ his mother clarified. ‘Yes, I bet you would.’ He”

— Karen Lord

I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.

— Macaulay Culkin

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories.

— Courteney Cox

My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.

— Kim Wilde

Well-behaved: he always speaks as if his mother might be listening.

— Mason Cooley

Companies know that children have disproportionate influence over their parents' purse strings.

— Sucheta Dalal

“One of the strongest loves I’ve ever witnessed is the love a mother has for her child.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich