Parenting Quotes · Page 177

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

— George Herbert

The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.

— Cormac McCarthy

It was 1939. There was no money or jobs around. I did my parents a favor and joined the Navy.

— Jason Robards

Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.

— Mason Cooley

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

— Melanie Fiona

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

— Carrie Fisher

My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.

— Flann O'Brien

It's complicated coming from a culture where to be a mother is more important than to have a career.

— Monica Bellucci

It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up,…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

“His Zen is genetic. You should meet his parents. You could rob them at gunpoint and they would still ask you to…

— Rachel Higginson

Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of…

— Samuel Smiles

What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into…

— Nafis Sadik

I want a boyfriend that I can bring around my family and someone my parents would be proud of. Until I find…

— Anonymous

I got into the entertainment world and started modelling when I was 15. When I told my parents that was what I…

— Dania Ramirez

My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when…

— Rob Lowe

My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about…

— Charles Kuralt

“My name is Catherine Elizabeth Hunter,' Cat declared loudly, staring Fox dead in the eye. 'And I ran away from home because…

— Lucy Saxon

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes…

— George Bernard Shaw

“It was only as part of the civilizing process that storytelling developed within the aristocratic and bourgeois homes, in the seventeenth and…

— Jack Zipes

My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant…

— Pete Seeger

As you get older, as a father, you hope your kids can make that kind of impression on somebody who will say,…

— Dwane Casey

Every now and then, we hear parents commenting on the fearful things which motion pictures may do to the minds of children.…

— Heywood Broun

“But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than the…

— Richard Matheson

There's so much anxiety coming from social media with teenagers that we have to give them characters that are real and that…

— Anna Todd

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

— David Geffen

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

— Anonymous

“I have hair in places monkeys dont.While giving birth my mother almost dies from rug burn.”

— Jim Rose

When I was younger, even though I had a big brother, my parents would give me the house key every day.

— Granit Xhaka

I'll NEVER forgive my deadbeat mom because she left my father when he needed her the most...Raising ME!

— Anonymous

Well o' course she's feelin' dandy! She's the mother o' God for the love o' Pete!

— Kevin Hearne

It may be hard on some fathers not to have a son, but it is much harder on a boy not to…

— Sara Gilbert

We all have to appreciate where we come from and how wonderful our parents were.

— Jason Bonham

Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.

— Scott Thompson

He was an abusive father. He was never a father to me growing up as a kid.

— Angelina Pivarnick

“The same thing the whole world’s parents try to impart on their children: do what makes you happy!”

— Sansa Rayne

My parents had always been so careful with me, until the day they decided I needed to die.

— Maggie Stiefvater

I love my parents so much. My day or night is not complete without talking to them - on Skype.

— Catriona Gray

I respect every way in which you are a troublemaker, now get up and do what your mother says.

— Haven Kimmel

“When the government does the job of a parent, that's socialism.”

— Marybeth Hicks

Knowing that your parents are okay makes you feel secure in the world.

— Rachel Simmons