Parenting Quotes · Page 329

Looking after a very sick child was the Olympics of parenting.

— Chris Cleave

I love you my mother, my mentor, best friend, wishing all good things hadn't come to an end.

— Anonymous

My father believes that Western religions are death cults, which I agree with.

— Winona Ryder

You may find that your parents are the most delightful people, but you don't want to live with them.

— Bill Bryson

“Father, I am what you made me. I’ve become your daughter after all.”

— Holly Black

You know how my mother and father met? In a train robbery!

— Tzipi Livni

When feeling bad about your life remember that everyone else does too. Especially your parents.

— Anonymous

Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy.

— Moon Unit Zappa

My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns…

— Jason Kilar

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys

— Caroline B. Cooney

No parents will in that future time have the right to burden society with a malformed or mentally incompetent child.

— H. Bentley Glass

My parents are Jamaican immigrants and both have a multiracial background. They're Jamaican but my genetic makeup is West African, European, Asian.

— Jaboukie Young-White

I come from a RSS family. My father was a strong supporter of the RSS, and he was a swayamsewak of the…

— Sushma Swaraj

I think my parents knew before I did that I was going to be an actress, because I was doing impressions of…

— Michelle Dockery

My daughter is in more competition with me. I never wanted to be bigger than my mother or to challenge her.

— Nina Simone

“But many, perhaps most siblings share a private universe tropical with benevolence, betrayal, vendetta, reconciliation, and the use and abuse of power…

— Lauren Oliver

“[I]f you continue to rely on others for that security, you will never find it. You're a Prime, a woman, and a…

— Ilona Andrews

Mother Mary of Anabolic Grace, we got Teras incoming?” He levels angry blue eyes on me. “You’re a hex, lady, dark luck,…

— Ann Aguirre

“Grace to you and peace from Him who is and who was and who is to come, and from Jesus Christ, the…

— John the Apostle

Because we need Christmas we had better understand what it is and what it isn't. Gifts, holly, mistletoe, and red-nosed reindeer are…

— Hugh W. Pinnock

My father said it himself in an interview many years ago: 'Husband and wife failed, but mother and father didn't.' I've got…

— Jakob Dylan

However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly…

— Mary Blakely

“But," comes the reply, "I am being driven from the farm which my father and grandfather owned!" Well? Who owned the land…

— Seneca

“And, like a lightning strike, there is his example. His mother before him. The lesson that she passed down for him to…

— Lisa Genova

“Who said that parents’ beliefs should be adopted by their children?”

— Lukasz Laniecki

Most parents feel traditional professional courses will give their children a stable future.

— Amala Akkineni

“Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.”

— Karen Russell

My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn't do herself. She always taught by example.

— Marie Osmond

My parents were always with me when I went through all the Triple Crowns.

— Bob Baffert

“You and your father, you’re fighting your own private wars.”

— Anonymous

I don't start shooting off my mouth. I'm not like that. I'm a mother.

— Teresa Giudice

Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.

— Imelda Staunton

To some baffled parents youth is stranger than fiction.

— Anonymous

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

— Robert Breault

My mother's prayers protect me. Negativity, nothing reaches me.

— Dhanush

My father had it, my mother had it; we wanted to entertain people.

— Demis Roussos

My father looked like this serious guy but was actually a very kind person.

— Harshvardhan Rane

My father said I was perfectly suited for Washington because I've always worked around nuts.

— Leon Panetta

My parents always told me that I should enjoy my work.

— Esha Deol

I was raised in the '50s. I was taught by my father that how I looked was all that mattered.

— Jane Fonda