Parenting Quotes · Page 260

I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work.

— Sonia Rykiel

We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.

— John C. Maxwell

The family of my mother had a lot of money; the family of my father, nothing.

— Charo

Unlike Western parents, reminding my child of Lord Voldemort didn't bother me.

— Amy Chua

“Peer relationships are safest when they are the natural offspring of attachments with the parents.”

— Gordon Neufeld

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

— Nancy Friday

“Be what you want to be,not what your parents want.”

— Faraz

“I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!”

— Melissa Etheridge

Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil…

— Vicki Sue Robinson

I grew up in a family where my parents worked full-time and still found themselves and their six children trapped like so…

— Stacey Abrams

My father never left my side; on the street, on the beach, he was always with me. He helped me on the…

— Rivaldo

“Oh, my friends, that your self be in your deed as the mother is in her child - let that be your…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the…

— Martin Luther

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame…

— Albert Ellis

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I…

— John Leguizamo

And while being murdered he said, Father, forgive them. They know not what they do. Because while he was dangling on that…

— Anonymous

When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing…

— Dan Byrd

You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing…

— Tom Stoppard

What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every…

— Anne-Marie Slaughter

“Irrationally, Mosca felt she should have inherited her father’s intimate knowledge of Mandelion. His throwaway comments about the city should have magically…

— Frances Hardinge

In my growing up, I never really enjoy father's love as much as I want, until I grow older that I realised…

— Usman Ismaheel

“Rhiannon readied her speech. The speech she’d given more than once over the years to Éibhear and, when they were much younger,…

— G.A. Aiken

Of course you realize you're leaving me in the position of being the one tell everyone - your mother, Luke, Alec, Izzy,…

— Cassandra Clare

My father died from a heart attack. He was the sort of person who wouldn't complain. The symptoms are not heavy -…

— Ray Fearon

My entire family are in music and my father was a classical singer, teacher and composer.

— Kumar Sanu

My mother has been an advocate for me as far as modeling goes.

— Margaret Qualley

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

— Amy Sedaris

My father and brother always forced me to work out, and I never liked doing it.

— Bobby Deol

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I have a very non-existent, dysfunctional relationship with my biological mother.

— Antoni Porowski

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays

— Beth Henley

I'm no parenting guru. I suppose you just take everyday as it comes and do what you think is best.

— Spencer Matthews

Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

Without parents, you sort of lose the gravity that keeps your feet on the earth.

— Howard Lutnick

Communicating w/kids, its a 2 way street, sometimes they just need us to be there for them & listen.

— Kevin Heath

“In the weeks between my father's visit and Cal's death, I hurt my friend in ways that frightened me.”

— Amber Dermont

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

— Dorothy Malone

“But enemies, as his mother used to say, are the price of success.”

— Joe Abercrombie

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

— Shane Mosley

My father had a great legacy and implemented important policies for Canada.

— Caroline Mulroney