Parenting Quotes · Page 231

I have great parents, and they both taught me great things, but my formative years were boundaryless.

— Roseanne Barr

I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed Dolly Parton was my mother and I was a bottle baby.

— Anonymous

My mother has always been very feminine, always in high-heeled shoes.

— Jeanne Damas

Even if my father wasn't speaking to me, he would never, ever miss a baseball game.

— Ryan Reynolds

Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right.

— Bible

My parents had very strict rules for me. Rules like, I couldn't be home until a certain hour.

— Emo Philips

When your parents are madly in love for 45 years, your standards are really high.

— Winona Ryder

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.

— Whitney Houston

“The scars of broken trust often remind me to be cautious with whom to give my trust. At least from my mother's…

— Joseph Jacson K

“cruel mothers are still mothers. they make us wars. they make us revolution. they teach us the truth. early. mothers are humans.…

— Nayyirah Waheed

I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way.

— John Lone

Often, parents feel overwhelmed. Many must accomplish the whole job single-handedly while bearing all of the emotional pain of divorce.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

I don't know how I could love my daughter anymore than I do. I couldn't, and I don't know how I could,…

— Leslie Grossman

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you,…

— Ouida

My parents brought me up to be comfortable in one's own body. And I have always been comfortable in my own skin.

— Varun Dhawan

“His mother shakes her head. “Everyone thinks they know what’s best. Everyone.” And then a voice behind him says, “Sometimes you need…

— Patrick Ness

You received the power, the authority, and the sacred duty to minister the moment you were ordained to the priesthood. President James…

— David L. Beck

All the children seem to be coming out quite intelligent, thank goodness. It would have been such a bore to be the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“No," said Ender. "I don't know about souls. I just know that while we're alive, in these bodies, we can only do…

— Orson Scott Card

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch…

— Michael Haneke

“And it totally depresses me, but the ladies eat it up. They love my father's books and they love his cable-knit sweaters…

— Stephanie Perkins

“The only other person attending who was close to her age was Father St. Laurent, a devastatingly good-looking Roman Catholic priest who…

— Julia Spencer-Fleming

If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to…

— Dave Barry

“confiteor of an atheist I believe in no god but my Mother and Father who ushered me into this world . I…

— Gerald Lanteigne

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.

— Andre Rieu

The world is not given by our fathers, but borrowed from our children.

— Wendell Berry

If a community values its children, it must cherish its mothers.

— John Bowlby

Even though I'm a single parent, I got my mama to help me, so it balances it out for real, for real.

— Sexyy Red

“America—where we hate our fathers, love our mothers, and everyone is hung up on trying to be a man”

— Volatalistic Phil

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

— Kent Nerburn

I have sister issues and parent issues and all sorts of things.

— Kim Kardashian

I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.

— H. R. Giger

Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time

— Kevin Heath

Loving a parents is more precious than anything else in this world

— Mariel Atos

I'm not a truthiness fanatic, I'm truthiness's father.

— Stephen Colbert

A little child born yesterday A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed.

— Homer

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

— Toots Thielemans

“Each parent is unique, he has his own share of joys and sorrows.”

— Jennifer Lorenzo

Both Sheena and I are working parents, and we know how hard it is to balance work and parenting.

— Eric Greitens

Being a parent means supporting your kids not just financially but emotionally.

— Anonymous