Parenting Quotes · Page 189

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

— Clare Boothe Luce

“Don't talk to me like that! I am your mother! Oh, God the Father, I have raised a monster!”

— Carlos Malvar

If my parents were alive, they'd giggle "John was an actor since day one!".

— John Kapelos

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

— Peaches Geldof

Cooking skills aside, my mother is an exceptional nurturer.

— Jami Attenberg

“A mother never abandons her child, even when he seems to want it”

— Elizabeth Hoyt

Motherhood brought me even closer to my own mother - I realised everything she'd been through.

— Amanda Redman

“It's quite sad that so many children go through life unsure whether their parents love them or not.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

The Compton I knew was from my mother, and it was beautiful. It was this close-knit community, and people cared about one…

— Aja Brown

I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.

— Dinesh D'Souza

'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtaposes a lot of ideas that…

— Taylor Sheridan

My parents have been my biggest support. Had it not been for them, I would have not been able to be the…

— Divyanka Tripathi

“And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had?”

— Polly Shulman

A choir of angels glorified the hour, the vault of heaven was dissolved in fire. "Father, why hast Thou forsaken me? Mother,…

— Anna Akhmatova

Respect your parents! He hasdestroyed my life in making your life, you are given everything they have increased their capacity!

— Mak_786

“But my father could be dark too. He was attracted to violence, to the basic beauty of fighting, the way it turned…

— Jesmyn Ward

Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, but a wise parent…

— Srikumar Rao

Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan,…

— Yiyun Li

I never got to be like Mike, cause I ended up like my brother, livin crazy in these streets, but an angel…

— Trae

“Thoughts of Abigail filled her world. By all accounts she had bee a tall, thin, woman, whose eyes held a power beyond…

— Chris Abani

Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with. If I'd had a sister or a brother closer in age,…

— Kathryn Stockett

“When you're and only child in a family with an only parent, you look at other, bigger families with envy. Mary Alice…

— Margaret McMullan

My parents always tell me to stop watching anime. They don't understand, though. It's made me laugh, cry, smile and just make…

— Anonymous

“What [my father] didn’t say, but what was understood, was that he needed me to lie for him from then on, and…

— Scott C. Johnson

I am not a father who wants to give his kids everything. They have to earn it.

— Mariano Rivera

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

— Joyce Cary

I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.

— Paul Auster

“MY PARENTS HAD GROWN ME TILL MY BIRTH, THE REST OF MY LIFE WAS GROWN BY MY ENEMIES”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“My mother’s eyes narrow and her plate filled hands start shaking. “The devil is alive…”

— Xavier Neal

When my father didnt have my hand . . . he had my back.

— SangFroid Stalker

Allah loved you even before your parents were able to show you kindness.

— Carissa Aydaa

Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating.

— Thora Hird

“The more you don’t want to be like your parents, the more you will resemble them.”

— Yong Kang Chan

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

— Constance Baker Motley

Tell my mother I died for my country. I did what I thought was best.

— John Wilkes

I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I am an avid mother, let me put it that way.

— Annette Bening

“I’d have no option than to charge your mother with murder.”

— S. A. David

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

— Herbert Spencer

Throughout my boyhood my father impressed upon me the value of money.

— Jackie Coogan

My mother always told me if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it.

— Donald Faison