Parenting Quotes · Page 216

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

— Jewel

“Motherhood: The most exhausting, emotional, rewarding and life-enhancing journey a woman can take.”

— Charlotte Pearson

My mother was incredibly creative and absolutely mental.

— Daisy Lowe

My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read.

— Len Elmore

To the world her child is one..to her, that child is the world. God Bless You on Mother's Day!

— Anonymous

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

— Jeff Bridges

I know whatever my father did, in his own way, he still loved me.

— Anthony Kiedis

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

— Renee Zellweger

“The best predictor of a child's security of attachment is not what happened to his parents as children, but rather how his…

— Daniel J. Siegel

It's my parents' attitudes to situations that gives me a sense of reality about what's worth worrying about, and what's not.

— Chloe Madeley

“If a child grows up in an environment infested with predators, he or she would have a hard time building healthy relationships…

— Abhijit Naskar

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we…

— Tommy Rettig

Just being a woman is God's gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what…

— Sushmita Sen

“We learn, as mothers, how much more there is compared to what we thought there was. We learn, how much more We…

— Kimber Bowers

You know, we weren't a Hollywood family. I didn't grow up in a home with screening rooms and my mother didn't behave…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

in the context of loss, each child is an only to her or his parents. Human relationships do not fill in for,…

— Marcia Falk

“Love is not enough. It takes courage to grab my father's demon, my own, or - God help me - my child's…

— David Lovelace

My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without…

— Aga Khan III

I talk about the food issue, I'm really coming at it from pre-White House times, when I was a working mother with…

— Michelle Obama

What my parents have given to me is not anything that has to do with money or success or anything that society…

— Willow Smith

I should’ve been furious, but for some reason I wasn’t. Maybe because I knew he was telling the truth. Maybe because Voron…

— Ilona Andrews

“I stand to leave, but my father says, “Wait!” over the red telephone. “Let me just look at you a minute.” He…

— Carolee Dean

Having to parent your mother or father is a challenge that way too many teens have to deal with. Teens whose parents…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“Once again she was struck by a sense of profound familiarity. She knew this place. In the story that her mother used…

— Kate Morton

If you're gonna act like an angel,remember that I'm the mother of evil!

— Farishta

“My mother has lived every day of her life as if it were preparation for some kind of crisis.”

— Mavis Gallant

You give them the eye, even though you know you could be their mother.

— The Kinks

“[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding.”

— Dick Van Dyke

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

— Dick Gregory

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

— Bertrand Russell

“It doesn't stop being magic because you can you explain it, Father.”

— S.M. Stirling

Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.

— Mayim Bialik

When your mother is mad and asks you, Do I look stupid? it's best not to answer her.

— Anonymous

My mother is a strong, wonderful woman. I could never be anything she didn't want me to be.

— Mr. T

My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.

— Geoffrey Wilkinson

He really doesn't mean it, you know! He never even knew his father! -Anchor

— Finding Nemo

Mercy," said my mother thoughtfully, "you never told me your werewolf neighbor was quite that hot.

— Patricia Briggs

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

— Joseph Addison

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

— John Brown

Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.

— Fanny Fern