Parenting Quotes · Page 261

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

— Ang Lee

It's my nature, and I was given this by my parents, to live for those big moments.

— Danilo Gallinari

“My father’s,” she says, smiling. “He used to think I was the greatest thing ever.”

— Nicola Yoon

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

— Al Capone

I want to be remembered as, I hope, an amazing husband and a great father.

— Jason Momoa

We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.'

— John Burroughs

A mother should be like a quilt...keep the children warm but don't smother them.

— Anonymous

My mother came to see me in a play when I was a student, and afterwards, I asked her what she thought.…

— Abi Morgan

“I never sulked but my mother loved to. I would get very upset when she did that. Even now I get very…

— Karan Johar

My son has a big Christmas problem - what do you buy for a father who has everything and you're using it?

— Milton Berle

My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the…

— Josef Albers

“I have discovered that if I can change the way I think about something, I can change the way I react to…

— Lysa TerKeurst

All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with…

— Margaret Atwood

“Do you have any idea how humiliated I am to be related to such a man, much less to have to call…

— Josie Litton

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model…

— Art Alexakis

“You too, brother. But where are you going? Won't you at least tell me that?" He pats the rifle at his side-…

— Jes Drew

My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I…

— Tucker Max

When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine,…

— Rachel Vincent

“As a little boy, when I would get angry, my mother would say, “Count to ten.” Try as I might, I could…

— David W. Earle LPC

“I grew up thinking of her as our Elsie, not as someone else's mother. She was the black woman who had cleaned…

— Kristen Green

I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“Then he turned the pebbles over in his hardened fingers, remembering the only words in the way of wisdom his father had…

— Robert Gatewood

My father had hammered into me, you want to look after your family, you want a nice house, and you want to…

— Chuka Umunna

Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead.

— Bob Dylan

My parents were very unusual people, but it was more valuable to have other people say that than me.

— Brooke Hayward

You can fudge a lot as an actor, but you can't fudge being a parent.

— Paul Bettany

My parents disagreed sharply with me over the decision to leave school.

— Ryan Holiday

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.

— Bruce Beutler

I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times.

— Sarah Shahi

“I had my first cigarette when I was five,” he says, making rings of smoke. “With my mother.”

— Steen Langstrup

Saturnz Return' proves how important the mother issue was for me in my life.

— Goldie

Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?" "Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more.

— Lev Grossman

I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I'm a good son.

— Mr. T

The most important thing my father taught me is that every man has to stand up for his rights.

— Ziggy Marley

“CUSTOMER: Is your mother around ? BOOKSELLER: ... I run this bookshop. CUSTOMER: Oh. Sorry.”

— Jen Campbell

“A man's beliefs are his destiny. As soon as my father believed his life was over, it was.”

— Carolee Dean

Of course I watched the Premier League as a kid, very often with my family and with my parents.

— Kai Havertz

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

— Dolores Huerta

“Parents believe that their greatest responsibility is to provide…its not...it is to prepare!”

— Regina Peacock