Parenting Quotes · Page 197

I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.

— Miguel

I steadfastly believe that there is no greater love than that between a mother and a child.

— John Carter Cash

I love being a husband and a father. That aspect of my life has been a joy.

— Jason Priestley

I'm amazed when I see mothers wearing high heels. If your kids run off you can't run after them.

— Claudia Schiffer

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

— Bill Ayers

I have never done anything in my life that my mother would not have approved of or been proud of.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

— Laura Linney

My parents came to San Francisco when they were probably 19 or 20, in the mid-'60s.

— Jon M. Chu

We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to…

— Abbi Jacobson

I think that sometimes kids use the show as a jumping off point for talking about things with their parents.

— Luke Perry

I was the youngest kid. When I was five, my sisters were 17, 19, and 21, already becoming women. I would see…

— Christian Louboutin

“Say to them, “Evelyn Hugo just wants to go home. It’s time for her to go to her daughter, and her lover,…

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength…

— Armand Hammer

“Do not fall in love with someone when that love is heavily dependent on the goodwill and kindness of your parents.”

— Stuart Rojstaczer

My grandmother and my mother were both told to stop working and take an anonymous role in society when they got married.…

— Grace Dent

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the…

— Dorothy Parker

It was funny being at high school and also grocery shopping and having a job. Other kids were going home to their…

— Margaret Qualley

“If every mother in the United States could wrap her mind around her true value as a woman and mother, her life…

— Meg Meeker

It's only too easy to idealise a mother's job. We know well that every job has its frustrations and its boring routines…

— Donald Woods Winnicott

I spent a lot of my childhood saying goodbye because I went to boarding school. I didn't resent my parents for sending…

— Chris de Burgh

Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father…

— Henrik Ibsen

Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for…

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

You know . . . a lot of kids at school hate their parents. Some of them got hit. And some of…

— Stephen Chbosky

My biggest prayer is to love her right. I want to love her like Christ loved the Church, love her like her…

— Anonymous

“In the modern Oedipal story, it's the mother who kills the father and then takes the son.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

I always grew up around music, my parents and their love of music.

— Caleb McLaughlin

“They left me. My parents actually left me! IN FRANCE!”

— Stephanie Perkins

“Mothers show their daughters how to become strong, fathers make them”

— Rafia Shujaat

The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

How kids feel about snow days is the exact opposite of how parents feel about snow days. . .

— Rick Sutter

A father may be different to his son but to his daughter he is security and high class hostage.

— Kishore Bansal

I take every opportunity to tell people how happy my mother is to be dead.

— Sark

My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.

— Stephen Leacock

Some parents find it difficult to understand that children are Growing Up and not Growing Down.

— Terry Mark

I'm a very private person who grew up with a strict German mother who believed 'loose lips sink ships.'

— Tab Hunter

Theres a big diffrence between you having money and your parents having money. Dont get it twisted.

— Anonymous

My mother says I'm crazy, I'm not crazy, I just have a different way of looking at things.

— James Kidd

“Father, we are all Your children, the seeds of Abraham, looking up, claiming Your peace.”

— Guideposts

My father left my mother for a 31-year-old model. A male model.

— Blair Waldorf

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

— Bertrand Piccard