Parenting Quotes · Page 325

“A parent who cannot provide the basic needs of two children, must not even bear one.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

— Virginia Woolf

I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.

— Felix Baumgartner

I had two experiences of criminality: one was my conman father, the other was teaching at Eton

— John le Carre

Start a program for gifted children, and every parent demands that his child be enrolled.

— Thomas A. Bailey

The longer you stare at this the farther she sees into your soul 0.0

— Andrew

It's tough to be a mother. At any age. It's tough. It's a lot of work.

— Chirlane McCray

Will you cook my dinner for me? My parents aren't around and I'm not allowed to turn on the stove.

— Ralph Wiggum

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She…

— Debi Mazar

I love getting up in the morning. I love coming to my office. I love going to movie sets. It's really what…

— Marc Platt

My mother has always been an Anglophile and taught my sister and me to love British history and literature.

— Emily Giffin

Everyone within the sound of my voice has the power to increase a child’s confidence in himself or herself and to increase…

— Rosemary M. Wixom

“a mother’s breast gives warmth, food, protection against disease and a learning exercise in interactions.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

“A piece of advice his father had given him surfaced in Edgar's mind. Sometimes, he had said, it's better just to keep…

— Sharan Newman

“My Parents were murdered in Texas in 2010 and he never got caught-My G-d Hates me and the police did not care. Truth”

— Brenda Kay Winters

I won't say I am a strict mother, but discipline is important. Timing and routine are important for kids.

— Karisma Kapoor

Though music was not in my blood, I always considered myself belonging to music, and that remained with me throughout my studies.…

— Adnan Sami

“I am truly crazy, I told myself. It's over. I am not fixable. I cannot tell Tom. I cannot even tell Francisco.…

— Suzie Burke

“It’s just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the…

— Jojo Moyes

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell…

— Roberto Benigni

“And I say to you, on the word of a Prince, I cannot tell how naturally the mother loveth the child, for…

— Queen Mary I

“The most 'authoritative' accounts of a historical Jesus come from the four canonical Gospels of the Bible. Note that these Gospels did…

— Frank Butcher

“In my younger and more vulnerable years, my father gave me some advice. "Always try to see the best in people," he…

— Nick Carraway

The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is…

— Steven Pinker

I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.

— Amber Heard

I'm sort of a Southerner because those are my roots, but my parents are from Iowa.

— Geneva Carr

Here is a little tip for all of you. Don't come out to your father in a moving vehicle.

— Kate Clinton

All I ever wanted to do was to do something good so that my parents could be proud of me.

— Ozzy Osbourne

My parents never gave me a nickname. But for my friends, I am everything from 'Nushki' to 'Nusheshwar.'

— Anushka Sharma

“Father Dom looked taken aback. " Normal? " he echoed. As in, who would ever want to be that ?”

— Meg Cabot

A treasure trove for parents and for professionals in the child-development fields.

— Jeffrey K. Zeig

I don't have wealthy parents or anybody to ask for money.

— Fearne Cotton

I grew up in Carol City, Zone 3, for 19 years, in a house with four brothers, a mother and a father.

— Denzel Curry

“I'd like to thank my parents for making this night possible. And my children for making it necessary.”

— Victor Borge

Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.

— Peg Bracken

“For children, parents are a yardstick for normalcy.”

— Upasana Saraf

“Whatever fascination Lymond held for her mother, it had no power at five in the morning.”

— Dorothy Dunnett

“My father, Vincent, a rumpled Bohemian who had followed his”

— Michael Korda

There are things I want to do to be a better human being and a better father.

— Jake Owen

As a mother, I think it's so important to change the perception of beauty.

— Denise Bidot