Parenting Quotes · Page 188

My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually.

— Celine Buckens

“The fires within the earth are nothing to what you’re feeling right now, failed mother that you are.”

— N.K. Jemisin

Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“My Father always said ‘Man can sooner reconcile the galaxy than two women!”

— J.J. Snow

“Your father is dying." "Drat!" said the Prince, "That means I shall have to get married.”

— William Goldman

I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

My parents knew there was no point in pushing the football thing. I hated the boots.

— Matthew Williamson

Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

— George Smoot

I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in…

— Vic Mensa

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

My mother has dementia, and certain people have a short fuse with my mother and the way she is, because shes on…

— Robson Green

I love [my parents], but what if I could really talk to them? I mean, what if they had some answers? Or…

— Paul Rudnick

(about her parents' strict rules from when she was a teenager) That's my parents. They're crazy! They're nuts!

— Katy Perry

“The past, present, and future; the young, middle-aged, and old; and the maiden, mother, and crone in one. Good times. I”

— Kaitlin Bevis

Despite my mother saying I have been destined to be an actress my whole life, I remember being the kid who grew…

— Shantel VanSanten

“Two decades had passed, yet she still saw her parents' bloodied bodies in every shooting victim she treated.”

— Diane Chamberlain

In my father's later years he asked several times that I remember him the way I knew him. He said that after…

— Jennifer Grant

“what if there isn't enough time to give her what she deserves do you think if i begged the sky hard enough…

— Rupi Kaur

“since I’ve been away, I think of you more often than of anyone else in this part of the world. I’d have…

— Willa Cather

I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that…

— Erma Bombeck

My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which…

— David Blaine

I had barely turned 12 when my parents packed me off to Doon School. I was transported to a world of confusion…

— Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia

There are parents, siblings, teachers and friends, but counting on them to motivate you isn't fair. They've all got their own lives,…

— Shannon Miller

Originally, I was in high school, and I was studying biology, and I got really interested in the field of medicine. And…

— Mikhail Varshavski

Giving, making an impact on people is something I definitely got from my mother.

— Gabriella Wilson

Parenting is much more nerve-wracking than 'Jeopardy!'

— James Holzhauer

The last child always kill their Mother after she done spoil them!!

— Glen Rambharack

My parents always told me I could do anything, so I never had limits on what I could or couldn't do.

— Marsai Martin

“Mothers should be very careful what type of boys and men they create, or allow to be created.”

— Bryant McGill

In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.

— Tina Turner

My grandmother was a very charitable woman, and my mother grew up that way.

— Jason Derulo

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

— Garrison Keillor

My parents did not want us to lose our culture and our language. And that was a good thing.

— Jose Feliciano

When I was small, in the early '70s, my mother took me to see 'Cooley High.'

— John Singleton

I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her.

— Linda Lavin

Most people marry their mother. I married my father.

— Wayne Gretzky

Children today know more about sex than I or my father did.

— Bill Cosby

If you give a pig and a boy everything they want you will have a good pig and a bad boy.

— Anonymous

If she wasn't my mother, I'd want her to be my best friend.

— Finty Williams

My father was a minister, and I suppose I take after him. He talked a lot professionally, too.

— Agnes Moorehead