Parenting Quotes · Page 228

Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.

— Dimitar Sasselov

Judge a man by the comments of his neighbour rather than by the words of his mother.

— Vikrant Parsai

My father was actually a chemist. He got a degree in chemistry from Stanford.

— Bill Foster

“In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death.”

— Holly Black

Can't wait till my mother gets home cuz I need her shoulder to cry on and her honest opinion.

— Anonymous

I go to him as a baby goes to his mother so that he can fill me and invade all and take…

— Elizabeth of the Trinity

“Every child needs a father. Even if he turns out to be Darth Vader.”

— Jackson Radcliffe

Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!

— Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage

Mothers and unmarried women and married women, they're all welcomed in the Trump White House, and he's made that very clear to…

— Kellyanne Conway

My father was a military judge, and my mother was a psychiatric social worker. My brother and sister and I were moved…

— Julianne Moore

Because my home life was nuts, I didn't look to my parents for help. I looked to my teachers. They made me…

— Adam F. Goldberg

I'm a big fan of moustaches. I think it's because - and this is not Freudian innuendo at all - my father…

— Amanda Seyfried

After the release of my first film 'Gangothri,' my father was so happy that he surprised me by buying me a swanky…

— Allu Arjun

I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I…

— Ice Cube

Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the…

— Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on…

— Gore Vidal

“Poetry Poetry, How did you find your way to me? My mother does not know Albanian well, She writes letters like Aragon,…

— Ismail Kadare

“Willie said fathers were overrated, that my father could be one of thousands, most likely some rotten crotch creep that loved clip-on…

— Ruta Sepetys

I was really strict about my daughter sleeping in her own room, and now she's really independent and likes it that way.…

— Kim Kardashian

I thank the Father that His Only Begotten Son did not say in defiant protest at Calvary, "My body is my own!"…

— Neal A. Maxwell

In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide…

— Charles Buxton

Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely…

— Sheri L. Dew

“And I should have assumed that this father of Swann’s had been a monster if my grandfather, whom I regarded as a…

— Rabindranath Tagore

My parents are very supportive of my work. It's my father who encourages me to keep going and my mother she's very…

— David Linley

I was taught fashion very early, from the age of 12 when my father bought and created the group.

— Antoine Arnault

My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.

— J. R. Martinez

“What'd did I tell you?" muttered Adrian. He has no fuzzy affection for his father. "De-lightful.”

— Richelle Mead

“A child that’s being abused by its parents doesn’t stop loving its parents, it stops loving itself.”

— Shahida Arabi

My parents made me believe I could do anything I wanted to do. They were really into empowering me.

— Pierre Omidyar

“Being my mother doesn’t give her a licence to abuse me.”

— Danu Morrigan

My parents never got carried away with the extraneous elements of being in the business.

— Haley Joel Osment

If you ignore family time or your parents cooking then clearly you are an insane person.

— Anonymous

“War ... it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.”

— Joseph Heller

The great thing about my parents is they didn't preach anything they didn't practice.

— Charles Koch

My whole life I had seen my father solve every problem he had through the use of violence.

— Juan Pablo Escobar

That's my sweetheart in there. I'm not living her. This is my home now. Your mother is my home.

— Nicholas Sparks

Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.

— Patrick Ness

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.

— Nicolas Cage

Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.

— Aretha Franklin

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

— Robert Louis Stevenson