Parenting Quotes · Page 183

The danger of motherhood. you relive your early self, through the eyes of your mother.

— Joyce Carol Oates

“My mother says: 'People who suffer from anxiety are usually those with the most vivid imaginations.”

— Sara Baume

“Your parents are never gone from you. You'll see that someday, hopefully a very long time from now.”

— John Searles

“Your shelled bed I remember. Father, this thick air is murderous. I would breathe water.”

— Sylvia Plath

Instead of raising awareness for bullying, how about parents just stop raising assholes?

— Nikhil Saluja

When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

— James Joyce

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

— Alexander Pope

My parents are great. On every job, my whole family and I try to get as many breaks as I can.

— Finn Wolfhard

“Holy Mary, mother of God," my mother said. "You were being chased by Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton, and a rabbit.”

— Janet Evanovich

Nothing ever prepares you for the overwhelming, heartbreaking love that accompanies being a parent. Nothing.

— Anonymous

When my mother talked about her brother, there was this light in her eyes. I thought, 'This is the basis of a…

— Per Petterson

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security…

— Anonymous

“The crowd's murmuring rose to a roar, and for the first time in a week the agony of worry for my son…

— Kate Quinn

Women over 30 are usually somebody's mother in a 'Porky's' movie, being silly and being ridiculed. There's just not a whole lot…

— Rita Moreno

“His father had told him time and again never to underestimate the power of something that could kill you.”

— C.J. Hill

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as…

— Lorna Luft

I remember saying goodbye to my father the night he left to join the Navy. He didn't have to. He was older…

— Jane Fonda

“The moon from any window is one part whoever’s looking. The part I can’t see is everything my sister keeps to herself.…

— Li-Young Lee

We need to repent of our sin for not loving our children. Spend some time in repentance and read God’s Word and…

— Carolyn Mahaney

“So many women come to me saying, “I have lost too, and this one, and this one”. So many embryos retreat to…

— Zoë Brigley (Thompson

Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to…

— Jill Scott

My parents emigrated from Poland in 1924 with my brother, who was a few months old. They were from a simple family…

— Francois Englert

I began photographing around 14; my mother gave me a camera, it's actually the one I still use for creating most of…

— Erik Madigan Heck

My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. Theyre both attorneys. So good…

— David Schwimmer

“Speaking as a mother of unborn generations, I'm against it.”

— Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett

There is nothing I've wanted more, or waited for longer, than to be a father.

— Greg Berlanti

If there is anyone who loves you more than you love yourself are your mother and almighty God.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

“Your mother didn't raise you to be a child forever.”

— Tadahiko Nagao

Parents are not quite interested in justice, they are interested in quiet.

— Bill Cosby

I was supposed to go to art school, and my father wanted me to go to law school.

— Mike Espy

“She feels closer than ever to her father in this moment of utter broken rage.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“I don't want what my parents have. I want the couple in the park.”

— Priscilla Glenn

I have proposed maternity leave for mothers whose employers do not provide it.

— Donald Trump

My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.

— Tony Abbott

When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.

— Beau Mirchoff

It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.

— Alan Bean

As a mother living in poverty, I don't expect my parenting choices to be respected by default.

— Stephanie Land

Don't let the bad friend scratch the diamond your good parents made out of you.

— Anonymous

My mother has fabulous skin which she gracefully passed on to me.

— Neha Dhupia

I am a father to three daughters and I understand what they have to face everyday.

— Ravi Kishan