Parenting Quotes · Page 210

“Yet the only girl who'd love him is his mother...' - A Girl Worth Fighting For (song)”

— David Zippel

Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.

— Henry Rollins

I always feel, as a mother does, that I protect her. Who will do that when I'm gone?

— Debbie Reynolds

My parents tell me that I've been singing since I was really young.

— Mohit Chauhan

“Don’t psychoanalyze me,” her mother said. “I already have. And I say again, ‘ah.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

— John Locke

Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother.

— Robert Byrd

When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then.

— Carine Roitfeld

My father left me with a saying that I've carried my entire life and tried to pass on to our kids: 'Tough…

— Curt Schilling

“Judge them for what they wished to be,” he begged the Father of Gods, “not what the world made of them.”

— Nicholas Eames

“Her father drove up and down car aisles, looking for a good slot. Who cared about a good slot? Just park the…

— Caroline B. Cooney

We must be vigilant in sharing our stories and our truths as queer parents of color at every chance we get if…

— Karamo Brown

A chef's palate is born out of his childhood, and one thing all chefs have in common is a mother who can…

— Marco Pierre White

“The country with the most writers is ironically probably the country with the least readers—USA. And once my parents die, my entire…

— Jarod Kintz

I was a wonderful parent before I had children. I was an expert on why everyone else was having problems with theirs.…

— Adele Faber

“The way is a great mother, empty yet inexhaustible. She gives birth to worlds unending. Ever present within you, manifest her as…

— Stifyn Emrys

“I am truly crazy, I told myself. It's over. I am not fixable. I cannot tell Tom. I cannot even tell Francisco.…

— Suzie Burke

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell…

— Roberto Benigni

“It’s just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the…

— Jojo Moyes

The great motherhood friendships are the ones in which two women can admit [how difficult mothering is] quietly to each other, over…

— Anna Quindlen

Though music was not in my blood, I always considered myself belonging to music, and that remained with me throughout my studies.…

— Adnan Sami

My parents liked to go dancing, and they encouraged all of us to bring our friends home. My brother had a skiffle…

— Diana Quick

Over its 40 years, Muppets on 'Sesame Street' have addressed AIDS, divorce, a parent's deployment overseas, and a death in the family.…

— Elizabeth Flock

“There is yet another reason why peer-oriented kids are insatiable. In order to reach the turning point, a child must not only…

— Gabor Maté

I made a decision as a five-year-old boy that my kids will know who their father is.

— Chris Gardner

“I am empowered and thankful for my parents’ love and support.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

I really feel that I've carried on my mother's legacy.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Kids, Madison Avenue is lying to you. Your parents are lying to you. The president is lying to you.

— Al Feldstein

I smile because you are my father, I laugh because there aint a damn thing you can do about it.

— Mulimah4lyf

“Parents must model the kind of behavior they want to teach.”

— Jerry L. Wyckoff

Once, I was my mother's daughter. Now I am my daughter's mother.

— Lisa Gardner

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

— Maria Edgeworth

Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.

— Peter Gallagher

I have never imagined that I would get married and that I would become a father.

— Dustin Lance Black

“Raising The Kids …Running the Family Is A Combined Effort of Both Dad & Mom!”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly~Anuj Somany

— Anuj Somany

My father was a socialist, so we had some of the most extraordinary people at home.

— Gina Miller

Being a Mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children go.

— Nikhil Saluja

When I'm a teenager, my parents don't understand that they were teenager too :/

— Harshita