Parenting Quotes · Page 213

Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.

— Phyllis McGinley

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

— Frank A. Clark

I took after my father who was a bricklayer and used to build everything step by step, brick by brick.

— Javier Zanetti

In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories.

— Wes Fesler

You women will live as if father is still alive and in the next room.

— Warren Jeffs

You'll see me at my best is when I'm hopefully serving as a father to someone.

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

My parents worked hard, sometimes two jobs, to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table.

— Carole Radziwill

The mind is like the stomach. It not how much you put into it, but how much it digests.

— Albert J. Nock

I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth…

— Amy Poehler

As a player, I'm a combination of my father and my uncle. People back home say that they were such good players…

— Oscar

I think my father is probably the best coach ever because, if we talk about numbers, he's got a lot and he's…

— Serena Williams

I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud…

— Naveen Andrews

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive…

— Shirin Ebadi

My holidays in Hyderabad would be spent on films sets visiting my father and uncle, or in the studios; I was gradually…

— Naga Chaitanya

Honestly, I don't understand this concept of daughter-in-law. For me, she is my daughter as well as her own mother's daughter.

— Supriya Pathak

Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits, and with mildness and yet firmness bend the will of the child until…

— Ellen G. White

“Clay said, "If they have flashlights like us, we can almost assume-" "We can't assume anything," [Alice] said restlessly, querulously. "My father…

— Stephen King

I grew up thrifting with my mother, it's in my blood. I love mixing something cool with something that has a history…

— Taylor Russell

You really do have to appreciate your parents as long as they breath, and start to socialize with them no matter what…

— MlY AB

Fathers who compete hard with their kids are monstrous. The father, for a throw-away victory, is sacrificing the very heart of hischild's…

— Frank Pittman

“How could I forget. I was her ghost daughter, sitting at empty tables with crayons and pens while she worked on a…

— Janet Fitch

Let me tell you about Australia. It's really, really, really, far from wherever you live on Earth. You fly and you fly…

— Greg Proops

“Dear Mothers Everywhere! First and foremost - enjoy your children! Rediscover the world with them, as they revel in the mundane and…

— Connie Kerbs

My father taught me, in boxing, that when you - particularly when you get hit in the face for the first time…

— Rudy Giuliani

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

— Lysette Anthony

“Your life is given to you by your parents. If you don't want to live, you have to ask them first.”

— Yu Hua

Don't marry a man who doesn't love his mother and a woman who hasn't been a good daughter.

— Anonymous

Our father passed away when we were young so mom was the mom and the dad.

— Jason McCourty

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

— Graydon Carter

“All I want is to be able to stand in front of my boy like my father never was able to do…

— Raoul Peck

Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.

— Zig Ziglar

“the growing boy whose own mother inculcated a belief in his “ugliness”;”

— H.P. Lovecraft

My mother had a book club that would dissolve into opening wine.

— Tim Federle

My theory about Jack is that he's not a very good parent.

— Victor Garber

A mother, woman or female animals, both for suffer the same problem would their children

— Mak_786

I'm sorry that your cats don't understand what Mother's Day is.

— Anonymous

When I was born, my mother said all the nurses wanted to come see the colored baby.

— Fantastic Negrito

Men of my father's generation were perpetual hustlers, always on the make and always on the move.

— Shawn Amos

“she was one cocktail away from proving his mother right”

— Anne Taintor

My mother didn't really want me to go into professional tennis. She thought it was too hard a life.

— Maria Sakkari