Parenting Quotes · Page 214

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

— Anonymous

With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.

— Marge Piercy

I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

— Adam Sandler

I was very lucky both of my parents had really nice skin.

— Susan Lucci

Most parents don't worry about a daughter until she fails to show up for breakfast.

— Kin Hubbard

“Parents are the barometers of emotions for children and it has a domino effect.”

— Cecelia Ahern

Marriage and being a mother are absolutely crucial to my happiness and my life.

— Keeley Hawes

“Love wouldn’t make being a mother any less boring or draining or bewildering.”

— Maria Semple

Early in my life, every time I had to climb the ladder of success because my father never taught me to use…

— Vikrant Parsai

“We are certainly blessed, in every circumstance guarded by the Father, but honestly, in the deepest parts, sometimes we aren’t fine.”

— Renee Swope

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred…

— Joan of Arc

“Every day there’s something which makes me think ‘I’d better ask Dad about that, I wonder what Mother would say…’ and then…

— Simon R. Green

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

— C. S. Lewis

“It’s entirely on our children to build their best futures. Not on us, parents. And we should be imprinting this message on…

— Lukasz Laniecki

I've seen the success of Mary Kom at the Olympics... We stayed in the same flat. If she can win a medal…

— Geeta Phogat

My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Do you get the feeling that they're talking about someone else other than an article?" Kami stared at her fork, lying forlornly…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

When people hear my daughter and when they know about her wisdom and maturity, they think that her father must have been…

— Ziauddin Yousafzai

“The third time out he concluded that we were hunting cows. That was a day that will live long in memory. Mutt…

— Farley Mowat

I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. That was not a blanket…

— Ted Cruz

Being working class, my parents thought, 'Ian's going to uni, the first in the family,' and I'd do dentistry or accountancy. I…

— Ian Rankin

“After Dad died, I told myself I wouldn’t be one of those bratty kids who made it difficult for their single parent…

— Anna Banks

What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give…

— Anonymous

“Loser" "Father directed choir. When it paused on a Sunday, he liked to loiter out morning with the girls; then back to…

— Robert Lowell

I'm jealous of my parents :( They have such an AMAZING child! :O

— Anonymous

My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.

— Lloyd Alexander

I don't need to explain myself to you. YOU'RE NOT MY MOTHER!

— ALYSSA

It was a conversation that I didn't want to have with my parents to say mom and dad I missed my flight…

— Manti Te'o

I know a thousand things louder than a soldier's gun; I know the heartbeat of his mother.

— Andrea Gibson

My father Baldev Pathak was a Punjabi, and mother, Dina Pathak, a Kathiawadi Gujarati.

— Supriya Pathak

“Most children don't know freedom, because their life is a never-ending debt to their parents.”

— De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Te amo, Father,” she whispers. “Te amo in aeternum.”

— Sparrow AuSoleil

My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born.

— Frank McCourt

My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.

— James Denton

As a kid, I had a lot of energy; but the ballet lessons made me calm - this pleased my mother.

— Penelope Cruz

Call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.

— Matthew McConaughey

In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.

— Hope Solo

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

— Guy Johnson

While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.

— A. R. Rahman

Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?

— Boris Becker