Parenting Quotes · Page 274

I wish I had parents like Dora. They let that bitch go everywhere.

— Patience

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

— Louise Hart

My mother is Jewish. We celebrated all the Jewish holidays at home.

— Lucy DeVito

My father started me off on the guitar, and we learned classical guitar together.

— Julian Bream

I'm a mother, so I instantly identified with what that would be like and the horror of that.

— Frances O'Connor

“He's not like his father. She reconsidered this. I mean, he's not perfect. But he's not Scarface.”

— Chelsea Cain

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

— J. K. Rowling

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Every first Friday, my father would go to confession, and he took very seriously the faith he would someday transmit to us.

— Diana Lopez

“Being the mother of a toddler, my emotions often changed like the channels on the television when my husband is holding the…

— Kathy Stock

“I have learned that the love a mother has for her child is unique among human emotions. Every mother knows this insticntively,…

— Lisa Scottline

A lot of the actors I knew threw in the towel when they became mothers. I couldn't do that financially, and I…

— Lesley Manville

Since my childhood, I was that girl who would walk into a movie hall starry-eyed having this hunch that I will be…

— Amrita Rao

My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I…

— Dominique Moceanu

Being pregnant and having a toddler, as every parent says, is amazing. You're very tired, but it's so wonderful. God, it's emotional,…

— Drew Barrymore

My mother used to leave me and my brother in the house by ourselves. The authorities came and got us. It took…

— Gervonta Davis

Know that, as in life, there is much that many have looked upon but few have seen because, as my father told…

— Odysseas Elytis

It's difficult for my mum because she doesn't know half of the things that happened. She might think the sun shines out…

— Andre Gray

“The moonlight on the water outside the chamber window throws the reflection of ripples onto the whitewashed ceiling of the room, so…

— Philippa Gregory

There are people all around us whose lives are masterpieces of service. One thinks of parents working two or three jobs to…

— James M Strock

One winter, when I was 12, my older brother Frank (20) said to my father, 'We want you out of the house.…

— Joe Torre

My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't…

— Ziggy Marley

“Peter’s Diary Entry: But my eyes were opened when I saw a mother who loved her child so much that she would…

— Spencer C Demetros

“Is there someone with whom you have a broken relationship? A spouse, a parent, a friend? As a follower of Jesus Christ,…

— Haddon W. Robinson

I'm not saying that men make better fathers than women do mothers.

— Warren Farrell

Curiosity is the mother of science, wonder is the mother of spirituality.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.

— Amy Tan

Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.

— Shannon Fife

As long as you have the blessing of your parents it does not matter even if you live in the mountains.

— Greek Proverb

Saving is the best thing..especially when your parents have done it for you.

— Shubham Joshi

A lot of people don't even know that about me, I grew up without a father.

— Marquise Goodwin

The Our Father is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.

— Simone Weil

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

— Rodney Dangerfield

When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.

— Rita Mae Brown

...And any snide remarks from my father about your tattoos will be ignored, cause my heart is yours:)

— Taylor Swift

I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.

— Bobby Knight

If you've never been hated by your child, you've never been a parent.

— Bette Davis

Creativity and curiosity are the parents of education

— Shakeel Alam

I wanted to be a good kid, and I wanted to please my parents.

— Andreja Pejic

“If there's such a thing as spiritual adultery, my mother was a whore.”

— Jeanette Winterson