Parenting Quotes · Page 259

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.

— Nicolas Cage

Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.

— Patrick Ness

If you ignore family time or your parents cooking then clearly you are an insane person.

— Anonymous

“War ... it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.”

— Joseph Heller

The great thing about my parents is they didn't preach anything they didn't practice.

— Charles Koch

Parents have to really talk to their children before they leave home.

— Aretha Franklin

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A mother is the portal by which you enter the world.

— Meghan O'Rourke

Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the…

— Debbie Reynolds

Marx's father became a Christian when Marx was a little boy, and some, at least, of the dogmas he must have then…

— Bertrand Russell

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

— Ernst Haeckel

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did…

— Anonymous

…the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen…

— Cheryl Strayed

I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot…

— Lasse Hallstrom

“These days, kids are scheduled from morning to night because parents have demanded it, and London has been no exception.”

— Nicholas Sparks

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

— William Wordsworth

“Where were me parents? Where were Becky? I felt so alone, so lost that I could not see. By that I mean,…

— Louis Nowra

“Her mother sought to see the flaw in everyone, the blemishes, the scars. Mma sought perfection, she saw beauty in everyone. Her…

— Chika Unigwe

“Others work among the spirits that have just arrived in the world of spirits. Again others raise the children who have died…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

“It wasn't until the 1920s that a bare majority of children grew up in families where the father's labor purchased the family's…

— Stephanie Coontz

I've got letters from all over the world saying what you're describing as American parenting is Chilean middle-class parenting, or it is…

— Pamela Druckerman

“There are carnivores, but not many. Symbiosis is the basic fact of life. That, and worship. Whistletop says all of the higher…

— John Varley

“But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his…

— Homer

My mother herself is a very independent woman, and I've had a leading example in this respect. And my father is a…

— Shruti Haasan

My mother is my manager and so knows exactly what I do and so on.

— Jonathan Brandis

In some ways, I was looking for a father figure, and I found that in Donald Trump.

— Omarosa Manigault Newman

When you realise how older your parents are getting, the feeling aint good

— Nkazimulo

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

— Richard Ernst

A mother plays a very important role in every child's life.

— Rashami Desai

I am the oldest of three girls and the only one not named after one of my father's ex-girlfriends.

— Lisa Jewell

My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.

— Grace Jones

My father is very supportive of anything that his kids want to do.

— Steve Ells

I love you just as the Father loves me; remain in my love.

— Anonymous

I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.

— Lionel Shriver

My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.

— Manolo Blahnik

“My parents and sister looked like a picture-perfect family straight from a magazine. Without me.”

— Stacy Claflin

Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries.

— Colin Mochrie

I told my father I wanted to act, and he stared renting all these classic films for me to watch.

— Emory Cohen

“Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is entertaining, bracingly honest and, yes, thought-provoking.”

— Anonymous

A girl's father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.

— David Jeremiah