Parenting Quotes · Page 323

Listen to your parents; respect them. They are well wishers.

— Sridevi

“But my father needed a job so he could finish a play he was working on . . .”

— Stephen King

My parents and I always put great emphasis on telling stories that appeal to a child's sense of humor.

— Mike Berenstain

My father was in the Air Force, so I travelled all over India. I was born in Delhi.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

Sometimes we forget that our Heavenly Father desires that each of us have this joy.

— Robert D. Hales

My father fought in World War II at the Battle of the Bulge.

— Chuck Norris

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

— Bernard Tschumi

I think it is since I became a parent that I am much more afraid.

— Nadine Coyle

My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone…

— Jim Crace

My parents didn't overfeed me, nor did they make an issue of it. That's when things go wrong. It doesn't have to…

— Harry Melling

I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door…

— Mel Brooks

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

— Anthony Kiedis

I've been doing 'How I Met Your Mother' for so long, and it's been so great, and I just feel like it's…

— Cobie Smulders

I know parents across America remain sick with worry about the safety of their children. I feel that anguish.

— Lucy McBath

“...in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and…

— Anne Fadiman

We're African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using…

— Beyonce Knowles

“Dear Mothers Everywhere! First and foremost - enjoy your children! Rediscover the world with them, as they revel in the mundane and…

— Connie Kerbs

Let me tell you about Australia. It's really, really, really, far from wherever you live on Earth. You fly and you fly…

— Greg Proops

“How could I forget. I was her ghost daughter, sitting at empty tables with crayons and pens while she worked on a…

— Janet Fitch

I grew up thrifting with my mother, it's in my blood. I love mixing something cool with something that has a history…

— Taylor Russell

You really do have to appreciate your parents as long as they breath, and start to socialize with them no matter what…

— MlY AB

Fathers who compete hard with their kids are monstrous. The father, for a throw-away victory, is sacrificing the very heart of hischild's…

— Frank Pittman

Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without…

— Keke Palmer

“Clay said, "If they have flashlights like us, we can almost assume-" "We can't assume anything," [Alice] said restlessly, querulously. "My father…

— Stephen King

over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it

— Margaret Weis

I went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can't bear to be alone.

— Dick Van Dyke

For me, the ever smiling face of my father was an enigma which I understood later in life.

— Ashish Vidyarthi

My father was actually born here in South London, so he's very Western and British.

— Griff

My father always said: 'If you want to know someone, live together on a boat.'

— Christian Camargo

Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.

— George Herbert

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

— Anonymous

School: An institute where the child goes to play while the parent goes to pay.

— Nikhil Saluja

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

— Theodore Parker

In order for me to parent well I have to empathize and stay open with my son.

— Amber Valletta

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

— Cate Blanchett

Gotta love speaking to the mother. What a unique and adorable woman.

— Gregg Sulkin

I like to write, but being a busy mother, it is difficult to sit down and write at a stretch.

— Navya Nair

My mother was one of the first women admitted to Vienna University and her word was law.

— Princess Michael of Kent

“My father rules an entire planet." "He's losing it.”

— Frank Herbert

“One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana