Parenting Quotes · Page 341

Mothers hold their children's hands for a short while, but their hearts forever. -NeSha

— Anonymous

Like other parents, I want my children to be comfortable in their adult lives.

— Charles C. Mann

The most important experience for learning to be a mother is your own mom's experience.

— Leslie Morgan Steiner

My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

— Pat Conroy

Being a mother means your wants come last and your child's needs comes first.

— Anonymous

“Well, your mother has her own way of dealing with information.”

— Richard Yates

I've done some pretty amazing things in my time but the BEST thing I've ever did is becoming a father.

— Anonymous

My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children.

— Glen Duncan

I was every mother's nightmare - I was a hair model from 14, and I started coming home with red, blue, green hair.

— Toyah Willcox

“A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing.”

— Justin Alcala

“Ree coveted Anya’s curves sometimes, having inherited a fairly sticklike figure from her mother’s side of the family. Ree wore her hair…

— Michael R. Underwood

In my own life, my parents divorced when I was young. I lived with my dad, not with my mum, after they…

— Andrew Haigh

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like…

— Jeffrey Donovan

“Facing a pistol-wielding murderer does tend to put parents further down the list of things to be intimidated by.”

— Kate Quinn

“Constantine, eight years old, was working in his father's garden and thinking about his own garden, a square of powdered granite he…

— Michael Cunningham

Whether you have an abusive father or the most amazing dad ever, every son is trying to find their way out from…

— Bart Millard

“My parents told me that if I became a musician, perhaps I’ll lose the ability to make a livelihood. But, I became…

— Leda Deluhi

“I ran toward the solitude of the dressing room. Of course, the full length mirror would have it's own disappointments, but I…

— Lisa Burstein

My mother worked all of her life, she was a dance teacher and I also noticed, to be honest, that most of…

— Garry Marshall

My mother used to say that when I told her that I wanted to be an artist, her famous line was, 'The…

— Glenn Ligon

“The great thing about refusing to feel feelings is that, once you’ve denied them, you don’t have to take responsibility for them.…

— Robert Webb

Every day I look for ways to be inspired, to learn and to grow. And trying to be the best for my…

— Mia Hamm

As we turn to our Heavenly Father and seek His wisdom regarding the things that matter most, we learn over and over…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was…

— Tracy Chevalier

“In our path of life respect the Signals (Parents) to reach our destinations safely”

— Dk

Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for.

— Stephen Curry

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

— John Connolly

“to hear what you and my mother were doing last night. I think”

— Richelle Mead

To have a son in wartime is the worst curse that can befall a mother, no matter what anyone says.

— Slavenka Drakulic

Having a baby changes your life, for sure, as most parents know. It changes in a good way.

— Gordon Hayward

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit.

— Horace

“Some mother in laws should eat their makeup so they can be pretty on the inside too.”

— Anonymous

My mother was a leading lady in a local theatre in Birmingham, Alabama, where I grew up.

— Mary Badham

My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man.

— Steve Zahn

That awkward moment when you're watching an 'R' rated, romance movie with your parents.

— Anonymous

I also have a feeling your mother’s going to have a very ugly conversation with me." – Dimitri

— Richelle Mead

Remember there is no way you can give the father custody of the children without getting a divorce.

— Phyllis Diller

This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.

— Ted Walsh

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

— Bobby McFerrin

“Mother of otherness, Eat me. --from "Poem for a Birthday - Who", written 1960”

— Sylvia Plath