Parenting Quotes · Page 331

Happy Mother's Day to someone whom I'm even more dependent on now than when I was in utero.

— Anonymous

“My mother had a mantra: musical instrument, foreign language, martial art.”

— E.L. James

No one wants to be with a girl that your mother would pick for you.

— Ben Barnes

Was parenting ever going to get easier? Did you ever reach a point where you could stop worrying?

— Lisa Kleypas

My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.

— Bo Sanchez

You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.

— Halle Berry

Neither one of my parents played sports at a very high level when they grew up in Nicaragua.

— Diana Lopez

I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.

— A. J. Foyt

It was interesting to have both very a conservative and very liberal parent, because we deal with both these elements in the…

— Frederick Lenz

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have…

— Stephen King

When I was growing up, my parents always told me that I had to do what I thought was right and not…

— Hillary Clinton

“Ódinn couldn't tear his gaze from the small featured face, the red cheeks and delicate lips that she pursed shut as if…

— Yrsa Sigurðardóttir

I had a lot of mother issues, sister issues. My mother was quite a large woman, so that affected my romances.

— Tony Adams

A man once asked his father, Father, how will I ever find the right woman? His father replied, Forget finding the right…

— Anonymous

I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out…

— Jim Bridwell

I think my wife understood from the day I met her how important she was to me and how important it was…

— Frank Abagnale

We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents…

— Rudyard Kipling

“I got schooled this year. By everyone. By my little brother... by The Avett Brothers... by my mother, my best friend, my…

— Colleen Hoover

“When my own mother died, there seemed to me to be no answer to anything. For a time the only universality was…

— Gladys Taber

“Like their parents, they will be devourers, for when they can no longer consume, they become limp, raw food. That is the…

— Bev Jafek

“Of course they didn't give us this much, Sage. But I had to make sure I nailed my first assignment. Takes a…

— Richelle Mead

“If you still have your trigger finger And your punching fists Your township mob justice Your mothers with whistles Your seven-month self-defence…

— Nkateko Masinga

Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of…

— J. R. Moehringer

“You think you’re indebted to your parents because they gave you everything you have. But they didn’t give you what fucking mattered.…

— Krista Ritchie

“Your father would never hurt me. Fighting revs him up. I know how to handle him and what he needs.”

— Lorelei James

Active dads make a positive contribution: they are good for children and they are good for mothers.

— David Lammy

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

— Anonymous

My father had one of the biggest vinyl collections I've ever seen.

— Brian Tyree Henry

On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

— Amos Oz

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

— Anthony Quinn

It's pretty cool having my father be such a great player. I'm really proud of him.

— Domantas Sabonis

“What we are most passionate about becomes our legacy.”

— Mike Crump

Wales is the land of my fathers. And my fathers can have it.

— Dylan Thomas

My mother use to call me 'Miss Perpetual Motion' because I rarely keep still.

— Joan Collins

My father was an opera singer who constantly tried to persuade me not to enter into an artistic career.

— Jose Jose

If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.

— Laurence Housman

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Before I die, I want to make my parents proud of me.

— Anonymous

When a child is born, there are two births. The birth of the child and the birth of the mother.

— Laura Ramirez

My mother learnt Mohiniyattam as a child, and my father loved singing.

— Parvathy