Parenting Quotes · Page 266

“The six Winston boys had inherited their father’s ability to charm snakes, the IRS, and women.”

— Penny Reid

If I, being a mother of two, can win a medal, so can you all. Take me as an example and don't…

— Mary Kom

Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children.

— Mason Cooley

Look, I've always been a confident bloke. I'm grateful to my mother for that.

— Bryan Brown

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

— Samuel Butler

“If only she could, like the mother of Jesus, arrive at that swollen state by magic.”

— Ian McEwan

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“Our Father in heaven is surely on the side of fathers on earth who love their children.”

— Honoré de Balzac

Most parents were, like, Little League coaches and all that. My dad was a wrestling fan. Instead of going out and playing…

— John Cena

“But it's a child ! You're a man !" "Your powers of observation are formidable," said Charles. "You are a credit to your optician.”

— Katherine Rundell

“In all my life I have never heard a mother call out to her child as he or she goes off to…

— Susan Jeffers

My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up…

— Bonnie Hammer

I never knew my father, and I'd hate to repeat that kind of cycle with my own children, because I'd also want…

— Mickey Rourke

I'm the new Slytherin Seeker, Weasley. Everyone's just been admiring the brooms my father's bought our team.

— Draco Malfoy

Music was a central part of my childhood because my mother played organ and piano in the church, and that meant all…

— Michael Franti

“The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“There is hardly anything at all. His life is suddenly a large, empty house, with each vacant room waiting to be furnished.…

— Dan Chaon

My mother, Anne, was a cleaner and a shopkeeper. Out of economic necessity she had to hold down two jobs and she…

— Robson Green

While I am a lawyer by profession and have travelled to several countries, working and educating myself, I came from a rural…

— Dalia Grybauskaite

When my parents were like, 'We're going to the Northwest,' I thought, 'You've gotta be kidding me.' I was so depressed. The…

— Bonnie McKee

I'll tell you what you can expect from an Irishman named Wellington whose father was a bookmaker. You can expect that anything…

— Wellington Mara

The first photograph I ever experienced consciously is a picture of my mother from before she gave birth to me. Unfortunately, it's…

— Olga Tokarczuk

Your body is as ancient as the clay of the universe from which it is made; and your feet on the ground…

— John O'Donohue

“I pray Aphrodite will help him find someone who loves him as much as he loves her.” “That’s a good prayer.” Father…

— Esther M. Friesner

That moment when your parents take your joke completely serious and you end up getting in trouble.

— Anonymous

Being a parent myself, I really understand the importance of keeping your children safe online.

— Judi Love

“Patience is the mother of all virtues and the godmother of madness”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Both my parents' brothers are into active politics and so was my grandfather.

— Mimi Chakraborty

[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.

— Lupita Nyong'o

Having parents who are chicken sexers - I had trouble explaining that to kids at school!

— Lee Isaac Chung

I'm so proud of who I am and where I come from and who my father is.

— Enrique Iglesias

“On the smooth brown hair was a hat that had been taken from its mother too young.”

— Raymond Chandler

I fell in love with Twitter. Fathers, lock up your deadlines.

— David Edelstein

It was by faith, nothing wavering, that Joseph saw God our Eternal Father and Jesus Christ, His Son.

— Thomas S. Monson

There's no sense that you're there forever. No parent is there forever.

— Anthony Quinn

I'm not on social media. I hear things that my mother tells me though.

— Iman Vellani

I think every child just wants to see their parents happy.

— Ant Anstead

Being a mother is the most beautiful thing happened to me. I am enjoying every bit of it.

— Sridevi

“At least it would have been perfect, if it wasn't for my mother.”

— Heather James

My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.

— Pamela Anderson