Parenting Quotes · Page 237

My father has a pretty big ego and he has to do things his way sometimes.

— Shane Mosley

I want to be remembered as, I hope, an amazing husband and a great father.

— Jason Momoa

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

— Al Capone

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

— Ang Lee

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

It's my nature, and I was given this by my parents, to live for those big moments.

— Danilo Gallinari

“My father’s,” she says, smiling. “He used to think I was the greatest thing ever.”

— Nicola Yoon

A mother should be like a quilt...keep the children warm but don't smother them.

— Anonymous

My mother taught us that ambition is part of femininity and really taught us to have substance but also style.

— Denise Morrison

I went from living with my parents, to being signed out of high school. I have never, not had a boss, or…

— Tyler Hilton

My mother was very glamorous. She was very beautiful, and she had a lot of friends; she was fun and loved to…

— Ellen Burstyn

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions - and unwanted…

— William Bennett

“In 2800 BC, an Assyrian stone tablet lamented that “our earth is degenerate in these latter days . . . children no longer obey their parents.”

— Bradley R.E. Wright

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

— August Strindberg

I came from an entrepreneurial family. My father and five generations of people in my family do not make good employees.

— Ted Waitt

I was really lucky about two things about my life as a kid: I had awesome parents, and I had awesome peers.

— Joe Lonsdale

“Peace may be denied for a season. … But God our Eternal Father will watch over this nation and all of the…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Each child is made neurotic by the parents, by the society; and we know that we are doing it, and we know…

— Rajneesh

Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my…

— John Eisenhower

“Children are constantly focused on their parents and will mirror them. Therefore, what they experience in the home will be crucial for…

— Iben Dissing Sandahl

When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun.…

— Olivia Hussey

“Abraham had eight sons--not one. All eight sons bring something to the table. Abraham loved all of his sons. He was a…

— Michael Ben Zehabe

A lot of the problems of parenthood are universal. Yes, it's harder being younger and growing up yourself, but all those anxieties…

— Aisling Loftus

No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's,…

— Maria Shriver

We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.'

— John Burroughs

Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead.

— Bob Dylan

My parents were very unusual people, but it was more valuable to have other people say that than me.

— Brooke Hayward

You can fudge a lot as an actor, but you can't fudge being a parent.

— Paul Bettany

My parents disagreed sharply with me over the decision to leave school.

— Ryan Holiday

I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I'm a good son.

— Mr. T

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.

— Bruce Beutler

Saturnz Return' proves how important the mother issue was for me in my life.

— Goldie

Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?" "Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more.

— Lev Grossman

I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times.

— Sarah Shahi

“I had my first cigarette when I was five,” he says, making rings of smoke. “With my mother.”

— Steen Langstrup

“A man's beliefs are his destiny. As soon as my father believed his life was over, it was.”

— Carolee Dean

Of course I watched the Premier League as a kid, very often with my family and with my parents.

— Kai Havertz

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

— Dolores Huerta

“Parents believe that their greatest responsibility is to provide…its not...it is to prepare!”

— Regina Peacock

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

— Ziggy Marley