Parenting Quotes · Page 255

“No one wanted to talk to a mother whose only child had just killed herself.”

— Kimberly McCreight

I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.

— Adrian Tomine

“I don't want to sleep,' my mother said. 'I want -- for God's sake, I want to wake up.”

— Claire Messud

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

— Mariah Carey

My mother was a feminist and a divorcee who worked. She was very smart.

— Alley Mills

I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world.

— Edward Kennedy

Parents: I'm in a bad mood. I think I'll go yell at my kids so they're in a bad mood too.

— Anonymous

“I was thankful," said my father, "for the make-believe.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The parents used to drag the little ones, and now the kids are coming--and they're not little anymore. Things are evolving. Maybe…

— Jonathan Cain

I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job,…

— Katey Sagal

My parents got divorced when I was nine months old, and my father would only pop in and see me once a…

— RJ Mitte

“I know what it means to hunger without being hungry. My father believes hunger is in the mind. I know differently. I…

— Roxane Gay

My parents used to bring me to Radio City when I was a little girl, so performing there 50 years later was…

— Wendy Liebman

I grew up with a very privileged background. My father served as one of the cabinet ministers in Arroyo's government, and he's…

— Miguel Syjuco

Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had…

— Sadiq Khan

“In sum I'm not what either parent or I had in mind. One hoped I'd be astonishing, forceful, triumphant—heroical in other words.…

— John Barth

“For the anarch, little has changed; flags have meaning for him, but not sense. I have seen them in the air and…

— Ernst Jünger

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that…

— Anna Quindlen

“I didn't feel like a slut, a bad mother, a terrible person. I didn't worry about my nudity or if he liked…

— Kristen Ashley

“It's a harmless breakfast." "Nothing harmless about what he whips up. His parents are chefs, so he's picked up a few tips…

— Veronica Blade

“The fatherless man can find strength in the fatherhood of God. Through a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, God becomes our…

— Eric Mason

Our Heavenly Father continues to communicate with us through revelation. These revelations are communications of divine directions. They may come to us…

— L. Lionel Kendrick

But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good…

— Patricia Richardson

I think I am a product of my mother's sensibilities and my mother's values. There has been lots of battling and lots…

— Cher

“Why can't one stop being a son without becoming a father?”

— Philip Larkin

Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.

— Alessandro Del Piero

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

— Anonymous

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

— Ryan Reynolds

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

— Jeanne Damas

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

— Emo Philips

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

— Bible

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

— Roseanne Barr

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

“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 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