Parenting Quotes · Page 319

I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.

— Barbara Brown Taylor

My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.

— Mason Cooley

Corne who taught you how to dance?? Because I know is not your father, he's got no sense of style…

— Adaeze Agbai

Happy Mother's Day to someone smart enough to avoid motherhood.

— Anonymous

I wouldn't take Father of the House even if I was offered it.

— Dennis Skinner

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

— Steven Spielberg

When we were growing up we were taught by our parents to have faith in God.

— Bukayo Saka

There's something about being a parent that has, I think, made me a better comedian.

— Jim Gaffigan

“John Updike said: “The founding fathers, in their wisdom, decided that children were an unnatural strain on their parents. So they provided…

— Anonymous

My parents didn't get to have a dream. Their dream was to live in a country where their kids would have choice.

— Kelly Marie Tran

The mentality that I have now comes from my parents, both of whom were judo fighters and they were very competitive.

— Evan Fournier

“Bummer,' said Ira, his new word for "I must remain as neutral as possible" and "Your mother's a whore.”

— Lorrie Moore

I am a mother now, and I'm a mother to a son, and I want him to go into the world a…

— Karyn Kusama

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer…

— Jodi Picoult

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens.

— Vladimir Putin

If you try your best to be the best parent you can be, you will have done all that a human being…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

“The third time out he concluded that we were hunting cows. That was a day that will live long in memory. Mutt…

— Farley Mowat

What my parents have given to me is not anything that has to do with money or success or anything that society…

— Willow Smith

“I stand to leave, but my father says, “Wait!” over the red telephone. “Let me just look at you a minute.” He…

— Carolee Dean

I should’ve been furious, but for some reason I wasn’t. Maybe because I knew he was telling the truth. Maybe because Voron…

— Ilona Andrews

I talk about the food issue, I'm really coming at it from pre-White House times, when I was a working mother with…

— Michelle Obama

My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without…

— Aga Khan III

“Love is not enough. It takes courage to grab my father's demon, my own, or - God help me - my child's…

— David Lovelace

My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more…

— Dana Hill

Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's.

— Sophocles

Following in my father's footsteps is not a big deal to me.

— Timothy Weah

All we ask is that we have peace with the whites. We want to hold you by the hand. You are our…

— Black Kettle

My parents were both opera singers, and they also were both heavily into religious and church music.

— Rick Nielsen

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

— William Goldman

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

— Bill Ayers

I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.

— Victor Borge

I'm a better cook and more of a perfectionist than my mother.

— Alexis Stewart

I took up boxing out of sheer interest and to help my parents financially.

— Mary Kom

We've made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.

— Anna Quindlen

Anybody who thinks they're the perfect parent is a fool.

— Marco Pierre White

“With a sword thou mayest kill thy father, and with a sword thou mayest defend thy prince and country.”

— Philip Sidney

“My father was a difficult man. But he was also a good one.”

— Veronica Roth

My mother is blind in one and and can shift better than that

— Fast And Furious: Tokyo Drift

“When these words release my hand they go away, they all go away to look for the father.”

— Ricardo M. de Ungria

Everyone knows Karisma has always been a good mother.

— Randhir Kapoor