Parenting Quotes · Page 349

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.

— Saul Williams

Parents must be treated with respect, whether one wants to strangle them or not.

— Loretta Chase

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

— Pete Townshend

My father was tough. At least, he thought so, and I guess I have a lot of his traits.

— Lee Marvin

“I am not my husband's wife, nor my child's mother...who, then, am I?”

— Rasana Atreya

Good works are links that form a chain of love" Mother Theresa

— Anonymous

Snow looks beautiful until your parents make you shove it.

— Danish

At 41 and a half weeks pregnant, I started to have second thoughts about becoming a mother.

— Jenny Mollen

I had great representatives looking out for my best interests and safety. They just happened to be my parents.

— Eric Lindros

When will my parents learn that I am not being ungrateful, I just don't want them spending money on stuff for me.

— Anonymous

I was 5 when I went up my first 10,000 ft mountain, with my parents, and I have been climbing ever since.

— Reinhold Messner

I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn't make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were…

— Dominique Moceanu

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions…

— Patricia Richardson

To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and…

— Huey Newton

“I have come to understand that it is far preferable to know that we are living our own destiny, a destiny which…

— Robert Bernecker

Your father is angry with me because he thinks I almost got myself killed,' said Sabriel, with a slight grin. 'I don't…

— Garth Nix

I was raised in restaurants. My parents opened their first restaurant, Buonavia, in Queens when I was just 3. This business has…

— Joe Bastianich

“She wondered if her father had awakened yet, if he had missed her, if Jeweltongue would tell him she was only out…

— Robin McKinley

Being a feminist is not about how successful, talented, and assertive you are in your own life. It's about whether you support…

— Stephanie Coontz

My father once told me that a happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. So…

— Leah Stewart

“Family myths are cherished by the people who--however unwittingly--have brought them into being. In my own situation, what my father was really…

— Mark Sichel

My father loved me so much that he did not want me to be a laborer or anything. I dont know if…

— Joe Pesci

My father was an army officer who left the forces when I was six and never really fitted back into civilian life.…

— Monty Don

When my mother was young, only two professions were open to women ; teaching and nursing. She chose nursing, but the teaching…

— Bruce Rauner

I'm happiest walking through fields, on beaches, and over riverbanks. Nature is my surrogate mother.

— Marco Pierre White

I'm pretty relaxed as a parent, and I think that people might be surprised by that.

— Whitney Port

My parents' usual reprimand was to remind me that I was not the Prince of Wales.

— Andrew Solomon

“it's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.”

— Anonymous

“Somehow I knew that puppies were meant to leave their mothers.”

— W. Bruce Cameron

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude

— Anonymous

Planning the conversation in your head before asking your parents for something big.

— Anonymous

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

— Douglass North

When my mother in Florida mentions that she's off to play golf, I think: Golf? In the age of Trump?

— Pamela Druckerman

Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother.

— Ian Gillan

You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

— Barbara Bush

If at first you don't succeed do it like your mother told you.

— Anonymous

Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence.

— Elinor Glyn

Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.

— William McKeen

The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.

— Laozi