Parenting Quotes · Page 299

My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.

— Eleanor Catton

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

— Jessica Hagedorn

Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

— Solomon

“Son, you think I had seven boys because I winked at your mother?”

— Nicole Edwards

Never complain about your parents, could 't give you because its probably all they had

— Kevi

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

— Dilma Rousseff

When I was about 18 or 19, I told my father that I want to be an actor, and he was shocked.

— Prabhas

My father gave me these hints on speech-making: Be sincere... be brief... be seated.

— James Roosevelt

“Syrian-born graduate student in Wisconsin who became biological father of Jobs and Mona Simpson, later a food and beverage manager at the…

— Walter Isaacson

No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of…

— Albert Camus

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on…

— Lincoln Steffens

“Inside I am a beautiful woman,' Okha said... 'The Trickster tapped me in my mother's womb and placed me in this man's…

— Tamora Pierce

Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories…

— Julianna Baggott

I thoroughly enjoy my children's birthdays, despite the fact their parties are an apocalyptic mix of hall-booking, Nerf-gun-hiring, refreshment-organising and talking to…

— Romesh Ranganathan

“I tell my parents I'm going out for pudding. They think this might be a nickname for heroin.Mum makes the international face…

— Joe Dunthorne

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough…

— Anonymous

[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood - learning about all these elements and aspects…

— Aisha Hinds

“If he was going to be given news about his mother, it had to come not in bits and pieces, but as…

— Haruki Murakami

“The arduous journey to Magadha brought flashbacks not only of his parents but also of dear Suvasini. She was the daughter of…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“Are you a girl or a boy?' Liesl was wearing the same thin nightshirt she had been wearing since Tuesday, when her…

— Lauren Oliver

A friend of my mother's, Irene Lopez, was a Spanish dancer. She saw me bopping around the room and said to my…

— Rita Moreno

“I have always enjoyed watching women dress. The appeal isn't sexual. Most girls' first glimpse of private female life is watching their…

— Melissa Febos

“Our personalities are often molded by how we are treated: if a parent or spouse is defensive or argumentative in dealing with…

— Anonymous

I've always been a 'your parents have got to come up to the school' type of person. Even now, when I do…

— Russell Brand

“Indeed!" he said coolly. "Well, who's the happy father? Ashley?”

— Margaret Mitchell

“When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily”

— Alice Sebold

“He found his mother and Carolee on two in the Eve and Roarke room.”

— Nora Roberts

Let's thank nurses for making sure we never have to change our parents' diapers.

— Anonymous

Parents all over the country are using their right to keep and bear arms to protect their kids.

— Wayne LaPierre

As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.

— Gregory Hines

When children are ready to talk, that is the time for parents to listen, regardless of the hour.

— Delbert L. Stapley

“and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”

— Aristotle

My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back.

— Robbie Robertson

Love your parents, but don't have them as your mates.

— James Nesbitt

the sins of children rise up in judgment against their parents.

— Lady Caroline Lamb

Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer.

— Bobby Flay

“No man can protect you like your father, No women can love you like your mother.”

— Pradeepa Pandiyan

I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement.

— Maya Wiley

If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.

— Ed Stoppard

“Behind every great man is a man greater, his father.”

— Habeeb Akande