Parenting Quotes · Page 239

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

— Jim Carrey

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

— Rafael Nadal

The awkward moment when you're smiling at your phone and your parents ask who you're talking to.

— Anonymous

What daughter doesn't want to continue her mother's journey?

— Laphonza Butler

Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models.

— Kumar Sangakkara

No matter how old you are, you always want your parents' approval.

— Michelle Keegan

I never really believe people when they say they have no regrets - mine is not being a mother.

— Annastacia Palaszczuk

Iam sorry for cheating with my mother I just can't resist a mother's love

— Chwayita Betshe

It's important for the children's point of view. That they have parents who are equally unreasonable, but in different ways.

— Guy Jenkin

Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her…

— Judy Davis

I've always wanted to throw a party where everyone comes with their mother's meatloaf. Everybody could evoke their mother's memory through her…

— Diane Sawyer

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should…

— Hedy Lamarr

“God intends each individual to choose his own moral destiny rather than be constrained by the legacy of his parents.”

— SparkNotes

It must have been the lack of nutrients that gave my father his temper. He is not a sweet man despite a…

— Nigel Slater

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support…

— Patti Davis

The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It's a mainstream philosophy. It's of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools,…

— Bob Barr

I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.…

— Billy Eichner

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is…

— Sonia Sotomayor

Instinct tells me to go to Hannah's, but she doesn't live there anymore and that's when I realize the major difference between…

— Melina Marchetta

My parents are from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and I feel like it's an old Southern thing where people say that, as a kid,…

— Elvis Mitchell

Jacqueline Woodson's books are such a gift to parents and children for their poignant subtlety and lyricism and their willingness to let…

— Tracy K. Smith

If my time has come I shall have nothing to complain of. For fifty-tree years I have been painting; so I have…

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought…

— Nicholas Sparks

It was hard when my mother left us. I said to myself: 'You must keep working hard for her.' She was a…

— Kelechi Iheanacho

“Kids never want a perfect mother; they need a little love, even if that comes from a worst mother.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.

— Bible

The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.

— Carl Andre

I am your father and as long as you live under my ocean you will do as I say!!!!!!! -King Triton

— The Little Mermaid

Every man plays many roles. So far, I have played father the best.

— Dhanush

I talk to my parents a couple of times a week. I talk to my daughters every day.

— Denise Morrison

It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“To whom is he to go if you are not together, mother and father?”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea.

— Frank Lampard

In automobile terms, the child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering.

— Benjamin Spock

I want to be a good parent just like my own parents even though it's no mean feat.

— Nikitin Dheer

My father is a trainer. From childhood, I would watch him train and kick and punch.

— Ritika Singh

My mother was a seamstress, my father an itinerant carpenter.

— Bob Menendez

My father fought alongside Aussie and U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War.

— Anh Do

Thank you to my parents for giving me the American dream.

— Sofia Kenin

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

— Ambrose Bierce