Parenting Quotes · Page 321

I always brought home strays (animals and friends) and my mother always nurtured them.

— Jill Zarin

“Only in Xanth would parents see a dragon looming over their children and depart with confidence.”

— Piers Anthony

As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

— Arthur Rimbaud

I know that a mother, no matter how impoverished or uneducated, will do anything to save her babies.

— Jane Chen

“But I'm reminded that of time and time again that mother nature loves a paradox.”

— Dean Vincent Carter

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

— Harrison Ford

Air pollution is turning Mother Nature prematurely gray.

— Irv Kupcinet

I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very…

— Darren Criss

“Whoever has My commandments and keeps them loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I…

— Anonymous

“I’d have given any- thing to know how Mom and Dad were, but you can’t ask your parents such questions. You have…

— Beth Kephart

My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They were both immigrant families that…

— Phil Jackson

The blessing that I got from my parents, even if they didnt really teach me about money, was their simple lifestyle.

— Bo Sanchez

Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of…

— Alexander Gould

I think my parents gave me a unique name and I have created this unique lifestyle that makes me who I am;…

— Urijah Faber

“Kindness went out to play all on a summer's day. When she went out many smiles came out and joined in sweet…

— Sara Loo

“Her father, indulgent in his concern, had opened his library to her, and at last she could read to her heart's content.…

— Helene Wecker

My father was into politics. After his death things got slow. We were meeting different parties and everywhere I heard people grumbling…

— Vishwajeet Pradhan

I ate Bengali food after my parents married and Dad started living with us, in both Willesden and in Delhi for three…

— Anoushka Shankar

“Those with a dismissive-avoidant attachment style tend to show higher levels of self-reliance, a reduced signaling of need for others, and a…

— Glenn Geher

My curveball is a blessing. My father taught it to me. He felt that it was a pitch he wanted me to…

— Gio Gonzalez

I was rejected in school because I didn't look like the big-breasted, beautiful girls. I was awkward and sad. My mother always…

— Sandra Bullock

“Oh, she missed herself. It felt like she used to miss Abe, when he was at Harvard and then after they broke…

— Katharine Noel

Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of…

— Zack Snyder

“I give up. In the war for my parents’ approval, I’d lost to a complete stranger.”

— Cora Carmack

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

— Theodore Parker

I had children very young. You go through a period of immense guilt about being a working mother.

— Adena Friedman

I learned at a very young age that my parents were undocumented.

— Diane Guerrero

I have been very, very blessed with not having stage parents.

— Rumer Willis

“Most children have been cursed with parents who have forgotten the joy of walking barefoot.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.

— Jaron Lanier

My parents tried to keep me safe, but to me the world was not a safe place.

— Pamela Anderson

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

— Oscar Wilde

My story is the American dream that my parents fled Cuba for.

— Perez Hilton

“Nelly's father was rich. Her mother was fabulous. She was reckless.”

— Dora Okeyo

“Mother is the name for God on the lips and hearts of all children.”

— Mark Matthews

My mother was a regular church-goer and was very tolerant.

— Emma Bonino

“Validate my existence with your words and I will speak to you all the day long.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?

— Anonymous

After Babar's mother was killed by the hunter, he went to the big city.

— Jean De Brunhoff