Parenting Quotes · Page 351

“...a woman writing thinks back through her mothers.”

— Virginia Woolf

My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.

— Doris Grumbach

“Oh Sweet Jesus. Sweet mother fucking fuckery of fucks.”

— Tara Sivec

“Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying.”

— Michelle M. Pillow

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

— Adrienne Rich

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

— Ritu

For me it is important that children be children. My parents felt exactly the same about me.

— Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

Who said that being a mother was easy? It must have been a dad.

— Mprez

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didnt…

— Carmen Ejogo

My mother's from Thailand, and they're very strict about girls in bikinis, but I would love to do a shoot in the…

— Christine Teigen

My father was an odd stick. He was a member of MENSA and he was a uniformed yard cop for the Harvard…

— Orson Bean

“I’d like to meet a woman who can think for herself and doesn’t want only what her father or husband wants.”

— Ramona Flightner

The belt will grow dust and sit on the mantelpiece, but it's not about the belt. It's about how I can be…

— Michael Chandler

I feel bad for kids who see toys on the television but can't order it cause their parents have to be over…

— Percy Shabangu

Nobody in my family has ever been into the field of acting. But I always wanted to be an actor and I…

— Sara Khan

“The research is really clear on this point. Kids who achieve the best outcomes in life—emotionally, relationally, and even educationally—have parents who…

— Daniel J. Siegel

In The Deep End, you have a woman who looks like a J. Crew mother who can manage it all. Then we…

— Tilda Swinton

My childhood was influenced by the roles my father played in his movies. Whether Abraham Lincoln or Tom Joad in the 'Grapes…

— Jane Fonda

“His father got exactly what he deserved, to die like the animal he was, and there was nothing any of them could…

— C.S. Pacat

This book [Dreams from My Father] was more of a reflection on my public life, now as a U.S. senator and before…

— Barack Obama

I used to not be confident. My father certainly didn't add to my confidence. When I was 17 or 18, I was…

— Joan Collins

“Murder: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines it as “the unlawful killing of one human being by another, especially…

— Deborah Spungen

“But the church, like a tender, loving mother holds aloof from active punishment herself, as the sinner is too severely punished already…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

— Frank Pittman

I have said I will not have a 30-year run like my father for a variety of reasons.

— Brian France

My father's a protector. My father's old-school. He's a cowboy.

— Paul Walker

We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.

— Madeleine L'Engle

You know what they say: 'Once you go black, your parents don't talk to you anymore.

— Amy Schumer

I gave my jersey to Mourinho because he’s the best coach in the world and I love him like a father.

— Mesut Ozil

The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

— Lydia Sigourney

I think I like those who feel comfortable like a friend and also take good care of me like a mother.

— Park Bo-gum

I have a lot of anger about my childhood - being hard of hearing and my relationship with my father.

— Lou Ferrigno

The only way to rebel against my mother was to be totally normal.

— Daisy Lowe

“His sister's beautiful, He has his father's eyes, But if you asked me if I love him I'd Lie”

— Taylor Swift

My brothers and I were raised by our parents to respect everyone regardless of background or race.

— Alan Wilson

Parents and teachers, learn to listen, then listen to learn from children.

— Russell M. Nelson

I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.

— Dawn Angelique

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister,

— Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

My wife is an amazing mother - like, top five of all time.

— Adam Pally