Parenting Quotes · Page 293

No one seems to slander deadbeat Moms on Mother's Day...

— Anonymous

To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.

— Pope Francis

By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

The heaviest of my crosses was that I could do nothing to lighten the cross my mother was suffering.

— Margaret Mary Alacoque

I'm the product of my parents' dreams and aspirations.

— Jensen Huang

If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn't be crazy kids in the world.

— Vincent Cassel

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

— Marianne Moore

My mother's early life revolved around the Methodist faith.

— Carol Thatcher

The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.

— Jeffrey R. Holland

It's a sacrifice for me. It's not really something I want to do. I don't love the idea of being a U.S.…

— Wendy Long

“Fortunately, Luke's unwavering faith in his father's innate goodness had proved to be a stronger force than the power of the dark…

— Anonymous

If someone told my parents that their oldest child was going to be a major league pitcher, they wouldn't have believed it.

— John Smoltz

[On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not…

— Audrey Hepburn

My parents manage my money, though growing up I was very hands on with investments and made all the decisions, even on…

— Anupriya Goenka

I was constantly trying to make my family laugh and my parents laugh. It's just something that always felt natural to me.…

— Natasha Rothwell

But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink…

— Bible

He's been the greatest father for me. Going around the streets of Chicago with my dad, people always tell me they can't…

— Jahlil Okafor

Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as…

— Edwin Gaustad

[ My mother] went, OK, I've read the Bible. I've read the Bible again. I'm reading the Bible again. OK, let me…

— Trevor Noah

I was putting on a stiff upper lip and trying to fulfill the obligations I thought were demanded of me, taking over…

— Allen Ginsberg

Is my mother my friend? I would have to say, first of all she is my Mother, with a capital 'M'; she's…

— Sophia Loren

“Words are Hamlet's constant companions, his weapons, and his defenses. ... And yet, words also serve as Hamlet's prison. He analyzes and…

— Carla Lynn Stockton

I hear from a lot of young kids. One said to me, 'You remind me of my house mother that passed away,'…

— Mj Rodriguez

“You know you're a mom when you open the door to the dishwasher mid-cycle and think, 'This is the closest I'm going…

— Judy Gruen

Choose a guy who will take you to his house to meet his parents not his bedroom.

— Pj

I always had a strong support system. My parents always supported the stuff that I did.

— Jenna Ushkowitz

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My graduation speech : I hate you all you mother fuckers, I'm out.

— Anonymous

“Tears slid down my cheeks. Their source must move closer to the eyes in mothers.”

— Janet Benton

“No friend of my parents is a pervert. It's physiologically impossible.”

— Carol Plum-Ucci

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

— Orson F. Whitney

Any fool can be a Father, but it takes a real man to be a Daddy!!

— Philip Whitmore Snr

“How in the world do you tellyour wife that her mother was born a unicon?”

— Bruce Coville

When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.

— Natalia Vodianova

“No child ever became ‘good’ by being told that she or he was bad or by beating her/him.”

— Maddy Malhotra

No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.

— C. S. Lewis

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

— Clara Barton

My father was like an unpolished diamond - tough outside but warm inside.

— Harshvardhan Rane

“My mother used to say, “Fun is fun till someone loses an eye.”

— Frank Delaney

And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.

— Corrie Ten Boom