Parenting Quotes · Page 176

My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.

— Andy Rooney

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

— Mark Twain

“Born from different parents, they were siblings in death, destroyed by the same hand.”

— Clive Barker

There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else.

— Aya Cash

My parents divorced when I was six but stayed close.

— Andrew Zimmern

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

— Cary Grant

“It is impossible to bring a child into this world for its own sake.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“My father quoted Shakespeare to me often and when I lay a book down with splayed pages he told me better to…

— Christine Wade

My father is still so much a part of me - from my physique and fast metabolism, which I'm so thankful for…

— Regina King

“James,” my mother says sharply. “Why are you blue?” “I’m not,” I try. But bullshitting my mother is impossible. You don’t raise…

— Sarina Bowen

“My father used to say some families are made by shared blood and some families are made by spilled blood”

— Lindsay Buroker

I don't have issues with playing moms. When a role is well-written, whatever it is, it's just about playing the truth of…

— Carrie-Anne Moss

A Boy Was Following A Girl, Girl:Dont Follow Me,Because My Mother Is Coming Behind U, Boy:Dont U Worry,My Father Is Following Her

— Babloo

I thought I would be married with four children when I was 24 because that's what my mother did. But it didn't…

— Ruth Jones

Parenting, as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power, entails lower status, less power, and less control of resources than…

— Nancy Chodorow

I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a…

— Kate Bush

Im not looking to blame anyone except myself. I have learned in the last week that this thing is real, and it…

— Eazy-E

To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on…

— Emma Watson

[Donald Trump] spreading preposterous rumors that [Ted] Cruz's father had connections to Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of JFK. That put…

— Chris Hayes

“Only compliments on my exceptional mothering skills. I’ve wondered if her tongue didn’t bleed from biting it at the many mistakes I’m…

— Guideposts

I couldn't ever act or think on behalf of what my father [[Albert Camus]] would have said or done. He's an artist,…

— Catherine Camus

“I knew I had an ugly life. I knew I was lonely and I was scared. I thought something might be wrong…

— Augusten Burroughs

When you're a parent, you spend time with the baby. You look at the baby's face and envision her future and what…

— Ray J

If you know you're mother raised you right, you wouldn't toy around with her emotions.

— Matthew Van Zyl

Mother Nature is a relentless ruthless killer. She don't give a damn if you get home to your family.

— Joe Teti

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person.

— Meredith Vieira

“A parent always tries to protect his child's world from the harsh reality of adulthood. - Busch”

— Richard Doetsch

I'm very lucky my parents were into different kinds of music.

— Devendra Banhart

She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

— Ann Brashares

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

— Adriana Trigiani

I get parents under the microscope and teach calming techniques for those moments when the heart races.

— Jo Frost

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings

— Jay London

“I suppose my mother would have been proud of me. At least I was wearing clean shorts.”

— J.A. Jance

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

— Ginger Rogers

A baby is a very heavy thing, any mother will tell you.

— George Ella Lyon

Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.

— Sheryl Lee

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.

— Neil Gaiman

Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.

— William Herndon

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

— Kirstie Alley