Parenting Quotes · Page 203

Dont wait for Mother or Fathers day to show your love and gratitude to your parents.

— Green Monk

I have very vivid memories of my mother reading to us as kids.

— Nick Lachey

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

— Martin Sheen

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

— Abraham Lincoln

My parents' set-up was very traditional, whereas that's not the life I've chosen to lead.

— Fiona Bruce

I have more respect for my step dad then I do for my actual biological father.

— Anonymous

My mother was widowed twice before she turned forty.

— John Hickenlooper

“when your parents tell you someone has gone to heaven, that person is never, ever coming back.”

— Tammara Webber

“My mother can’t have been magic, or she wouldn’t have died,’ said Riddle, more to himself than Dumbledore.”

— J.K. Rowling

I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and…

— John Green

. . . the labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and…

— Susan Piver

Some girls think that your ugly, some boys think your pathetique, some parents think your a rebel, some teachers think that your…

— Levita Charin

My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.

— Anita Roddick

You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father,…

— Oliver Hudson

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to…

— Robert Breault

“Fear makes even strong me do things they might never do otherwise, and my father was never strong. - Arianne”

— George R.R. Martin

My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was…

— Henry Rollins

Fetty Wap is a soldier, father, a mentor, a leader for people that I never thought I'd be a leader for. A…

— Fetty Wap

“When I was in third grade--the age of many of the boys here--my parents had debated whether or not to buy me…

— Eric Greitens

If Jesus Christ were to sit down with us and ask for an accounting of our stewardship, I am not sure He…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“She’d told Bela that the feeling would ebb but never fully go away. It would form part of her landscape, wherever she…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

For anybody out there... who are parents who are taking care of an elderly parent or an adult child with disabilities, they…

— Brian Deese

It wasn't rich, it was hard-working, but I give thanks daily for the kind of upbringing I had, and for the values…

— Patricia Routledge

“As Louis Cozolino Ph. D., observes, a consistent theme of adult psychotherapy clients is that they had parents who were not curious…

— Peg Streep

By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.

— William McKinley

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

— Paul Lafargue

Stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents.

— Kelly Cutrone

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

— Eric Allin Cornell

What I learned from my parents is just to be a source of unconditional love for my children.

— Chris Hoy

As an actor timing is important, especially as a mother with small children, so a lot is chance.

— Nicole Kidman

I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

— Paul Desmond

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My father and my mother were both teachers. They inculcated to us the importance of studies.

— Hugo Chavez

My mother taught me early on not to be afraid to put myself out there - especially as a woman.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too.

— Philip Pullman

It's a huge advantage to have parents who read to you. And it's an advantage that lasts a lifetime.

— Laura Bush

My step dad is more of a father figure then my real dad could ever dream of being.

— Anonymous

My father has been my coach ever since I was small, so I am always going to look to him first.

— Demetrius Andrade

It always seems to the brothers and the father that their brother or son didn't marry the right person.

— Anton Chekhov

“She missed most of all the feeling of having a mother.”

— Susan Ornbratt