Parenting Quotes · Page 246

I think we're much more eager to know about our parents than we were in the seventies.

— Francine du Plessix Gray

Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

— Susan Minot

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.

— Pearl S Buck

I don't have mother's day! Cause every day is my mother's day!

— Afana Yamze

“my mother used to say that nothing limited the human spirit like propriety.”

— Kresley Cole

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

— Humphrey Lyttelton

My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.

— Anonymous

I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.

— Meagan Tandy

“They fought like champions. For a minute. Just when it was getting interesting, both boys were hauled away their collars. A watchful…

— Markus Zusak

“I don't understand why some kids git a good school and mother and father and some don't. But Rita say forgit the…

— Sapphire

It was important to me and, I think, important to my parents that I be on my own and figure things out…

— Anderson Cooper

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle.…

— Dusty Baker

“I've spent my whole life trying to get over having had Nikki for a mother, and I have to say that from…

— Anne Lamott

I was never In a restaurant until after I left home. My mother came from Abruzzi and they're noted for their great…

— Henry Mancini

Jack the Ripper's mother, who said to Jack, How come I never see you with the same girl twice? Never got a…

— Red Buttons

We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept…

— Beth Ditto

“No matter what the cause, the result is the same: iGen teens are less likely to experience the freedom of being out…

— Jean M. Twenge

My parents joined in the 60s and at that time it was really important - there was a group mentality. I could…

— Taraka Larson

My mother was always a fighter. Besides the jobs she had, she always found time to take me to and from training.…

— Joao Cancelo

The day I went to see my father to say I wanted to become an architect, he was a bit surprised, because…

— Renzo Piano

The CIA created, armed and financed the Contras. My father backed them with everything he had. It was my father's war, and…

— Patti Davis

“The most effective weapon a parent has to control a child is the withdrawal of love or its threat. A young child…

— Alexander Lowen

“Mr. Alsworthy!” exclaimed Letty’s mother. “How can you laugh at such a matter! Although, I must say, I would have thought if…

— Lauren Willig

German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why…

— Franz Kafka

I lived in Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon when I was very young, until my mother divorced my father.

— Patrick Cox

I was raised an orphan... My mother died when I was 2 years old.

— Diego Luna

My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child

— Louisa May Alcott

Polish boot in mother land, rather than polishing suit in foreign land.

— Yssubramanyam

My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.

— Bernardo Bertolucci

My mother only said: Thank God the scorpion picked on me and spared my children.

— Nissim Ezekiel

My relationship with my parents? Great. We all get along pretty well!

— Anonymous

One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.

— Lawrence Welk

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

— Sam Sheppard

You may as well learn about sex from Motley Crue than your parents - it's a lot more fun.

— Motley Crue

“My father wasn’t around I swear that I’ll be around for you”

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I think I'm a father, but a father of three kids! :)

— John Petrucci

No woman was good enough for me, according to my mother.

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointing is impolite.

— Andrew S. Tanenbaum

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

— Marion Jones

Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.

— Aaron Neville