Parenting Quotes · Page 191

I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.

— Samantha Morton

My parents are very even-keeled. You know, just kind of steady as she goes.

— Tom Glavine

I was not born when my father retired in 1979, but I watched footage of his games on VHS.

— Angad Bedi

I definitely taught my parents how to text and how to charge their phones.

— Chelsea Clinton

Like my parents taught me, never give up, and always love what you do.

— Nathan Chen

I tried to work hard at school because I knew that my parents were paying a lot of money for it.

— Freddie Fox

I never exploited my father’s role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps...

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Children are our future, and their mothers are its guardians.

— Kofi Annan

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm…

— Stephen Fry

I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname;…

— Willem Dafoe

My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a…

— Mark Teixeira

My parents thought I was crazy. When I graduated, you didn't hear of basketball players going to Japan. Everyone went to Europe…

— Anne Donovan

Very few American parents give a crap about how they raise their kids. They put minimal effort into it. Who told you…

— Louis C. K

It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't…

— Duane Chapman

“you’re not endangering my wife and son, you’re not bringing trouble down on us, if you’re going the same way as your…

— J.K. Rowling

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic,…

— Anonymous

“Your father owns a history company?" I say teasingly. Nick laughs. "No. Everyone on Wall Street has a history degree, though you'd…

— Beatriz Williams

“The little boy was found by his mother with pencil and paper, making a sketch. When asked what he was doing, he…

— Anonymous

Overachievement is aimed at people who want to maximize their potential. And to do that, I insist you throw caution to the…

— John Eliot

“I never understand it when parents talk about sending their kids to school to “socialize” them. Children aren’t people. They’re barely even…

— Elizabeth Little

“Upon discovering what Fred had done, his mother grabbed him and stripped his clothes off. She stuck his butt out the window…

— Josh Young

“Medicine, psychology, criminology, sociology. Which treat bodies as machinery (passim Descartes, the “father” of our Western subject). Developing alongside the dirty sciences.…

— Charles Bernstein

Therefore, let us be patient, patient; and let God our Father teach His own lesson, His own way. Let us try to…

— Charles Kingsley

“Doctor(to patient): Give me your parent's number so that we can tell them what a bad boy you have been. Patient(Confused, unwilling):…

— Durjoy Datta

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

— Hoagy Carmichael

You can't stop father time... but you can show [him] down.

— Karl Malone

“her mother is asking her a question and she is forced to resurface from the sanctuary of daydream.”

— Nick Bantock

On the set of Besharam I had to refrain from smoking, out of respect for my parents

— Ranbir Kapoor

I'm missing home so much right now. I want my parents. I want my friends. I want my bed.

— Anonymous

What I am signing and what I'm not, I do not discuss with either of my parents. I decide.

— Shruti Haasan

When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“We've got Father and Mother, and each other," said Beth contentedly from her corner.”

— Louisa May Alcott

Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.

— Laura Schlessinger

“I watched my birth mother as she chatted to Dad, and took in her beautiful smile.”

— Katrina Kahler

I like changing my hairstyle, much to my mother's annoyance. It depends on my state of mind.

— Fernando Torres

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

— Bobby McFerrin

If you want to know God as your Father, you need to know Jesus Christ as your Savior.

— Kevin DeYoung

How I'd love, love, love, to dance with my Father again.

— Luther Vandross

Becoming a mother has definitely made me more organized.

— Nicole Polizzi

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.

— Kate Walsh