Parenting Quotes · Page 347

My father left me when I was 6. My mother tried to take care of all of us on public assistance.

— Ghostface Killah

“you 'son of a fish' who does not even know his own father”

— Gilgamesh

It's taboo for me to date wrestlers [on her father's opinion of her dating wrestlers].

— Stephanie McMahon

Never marry a man who hates his mother because he'll end up hating you.

— Jill Bennett

“The task of being right is a task the father perfects over time.”

— Ben Marcus

I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.

— LaToya Jackson

Dad, because you are my father it's been easy to believe in God.

— John Walter Bratton

I've learned that the worst thing a parent can do is ignore their children

— Sherman Alexie

I was an outcast growing up with a bunch of Christian people. My father didn't go to church, and that was not…

— Del Shannon

When I was little, my father used to tell me he could see when I was lying because I'd get a twinkle…

— Lily Gladstone

We remain a country where a young person's chance of fulfilling their potential rests on the vagaries of where they were born…

— Luciana Berger

I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language,…

— Helen Vendler

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing... - Mother Teresa

— Aroha Janet

Where I grew up, fathers would have bets on whose kids were the toughest and we were put together in the garden…

— Joey Barton

I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I…

— Yvonne Strahovski

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country,…

— George III

As someone who has seen war first hand, and as a father of three young adults, it was my hope that we…

— Allen Boyd

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and…

— Marco Rubio

“Ronan’s voice was different when he spoke to either his mother or Matthew. It was Ronan, unperformed. No. Ronan, unprotected. This tone…

— Maggie Stiefvater

To exercise faith is to trust that the Lord knows what he is doing with you and that He can accomplish it…

— Richard G. Scott

We've got a younger fan base - and their parents. One day when we were at Abbey Road, an entire family was…

— Ryan Ross

A lot of women want to be married and have kids one day, but before we get there, it's so important to…

— Sevyn Streeter

“Looking at the mother, you might hope that the daughter would become like her, which is a prospective advantage equal to a…

— George Eliot

Remember, loving them is the powerful foundation for influencing those you want to help. ... As a companion to that love, trust…

— Richard G. Scott

I always remember the prayers of my mother as they always forever.

— Abraham Lincoln

mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She believed in her dream like a fabled virgin mother expecting a messiah.”

— C.J. Anderson

And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children.

— David Neeleman

Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Parents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school.

— Peter Breggin

Being a mother is not about what you gave up to have a child, but what you've gained from having one.

— Sunny Gupta

Both my parents moved here from Argentina before I was born, so they were in a foreign country.

— Camila Morrone

Several years before birth, advertise for a couple of parents belonging to long-lived families.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.

— Lindsay Lohan

Over the course of my creative life, I've trafficked in broken, heroic mothers.

— Peter Hedges

I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.

— Jerry Reinsdorf

“Parents must teach their children the fear of God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. -Pope John XXIII”

— Steven D. Price

It's hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my father's equal in any way.

— Franz Wright

Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything.

— Amy Chua