Parenting Quotes · Page 278

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.

— David Bowie

It's very hard to be a family man, a father, a husband, an independent wrestler, and a police officer.

— Mustafa Ali

Approximately one out of every three children in the U.S. lives in a home without a father.

— Anonymous

My parents obviously have played a huge role in my success.

— Chase Elliott

My father was a pioneer and a leader in the things he did and the way he did them.

— Anoushka Shankar

I love being a parent, but it can be difficult for all kinds of reasons.

— Judi Love

If I could go back in time, I would give your parents a condom

— Green Monk

I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

— Pamela Anderson

Parents are not perfect. They are just the vessels God used to get you here. Honor them but heal from them. It's…

— Anonymous

Isn't school da place were u see ur friends, make out wit ur bf and do everything that da parents don't let…

— Killa

It's crazy because, you know, my parents always want me to watch old films to make me realize how amazing some of…

— Millie Bobby Brown

I squatted for most of my adult life. I'm not condoning squatting; it was just the only way I could do what…

— Jamie Hince

My success as a young athlete contributed to major disagreements between my parents and my mom had to make the ultimate decision…

— Nyjah Huston

“Your father thought he scored a victory over me when he tricked me into marrying you instead of one of your sisters,…

— C.L. Wilson

When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch…

— Yoko Ono

My parents are very straightforward, honest folks. My dad is hilarious, the funniest guy I've ever known.

— Steve Doocy

When I listen to the complaints that follow just about every presidential debate, I'm reminded of the well-worn joke about the Jewish…

— Jeff Greenfield

When I was a kid, before there were VCRt, my parents had a movie projector, and we'd watch Frankenstein and Dracula. I…

— Chris Reifert

The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first…

— Jean Piaget

Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service…

— Angela Carter

No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches…

— Kristin Hannah

“MOTHER TIME: Every New Year is the same. Every day, every second is too for that matter. But when we deliver them…

— Hillary DePiano

The '80s were a really different time for kids. Technology has changed so much of how we stay in touch and keep…

— Cliff Chiang

“When we first found each other, I was a mess, full of conflict and fear. His steadfastness and unwavering faith in me…

— Amanda Bouchet

I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.

— Charlize Theron

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

— Haley Reinhart

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

— Salman Rushdie

[On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father.

— Princess Diana

I'm not a great father and there have been many occasions, when I fall short, but I'm genuinely trying.

— Rahul Dev

I'm jealous of my parent's, Cause they have an amazing kid like me.

— Simpleman

He's not responsible for what he's doing, cause his mother made him what he is.

— Jerry Jeff Walker

If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.

— Ray Bradbury

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

— Ernest Hemingway

Women without children can help mothers, and we can just be all in this together.

— Sheila Heti

About your daddy and your mother and your crazy ex-lover .

— Toby Keith

Theres no time to discriminate, hate every mother f***er thats in your way.

— Marilyn Manson

If you're going to be a father and whatnot, yeah, you better be responsible about it as best you can.

— Ben Mendelsohn

“Parents should keep their kids engaged in positive activities as much as possible.”

— Malik Wade

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I idolized my father, especially as a young boy. He was bigger than life. He commanded the room.

— Lorenzo Lamas