Parenting Quotes · Page 352

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

— Joan Collins

“If bitching were karate, my mother would be a black belt.”

— Lisa Burstein

You can check that box off. You want to make your parents proud for the tuition they paid at NYU.

— Adam Jacobs

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

— Daniel Woodrell

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

— Alan Bennett

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

— Mel Carnahan

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

— Saint Augustine

“A child's duty is to become greater than his parents.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Early on, I had a passion for theater, but my parents were very sports-focused, so while I played different sports, theater was…

— Ryan Serhant

Discover strategies that help you become a loving, present mother while having the time and energy to tend to your creative spirit…

— Anonymous

My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that…

— Randy Pausch

I had a wonderful home life. My parents are the ultimate, wonderful supporters, so there was never a moment where I felt…

— Colin Donnell

“Striving to meet my father's expectations is like climbing out of quicksand: the harder I try to get to the top, the…

— Lac Su

My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every day when I was a…

— Richard Flanagan

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I…

— Jerry Rice

Let's take care of mothers and infants first, and then let's see what's left over for everybody over 50. I'm over 50.…

— Richard Dooling

“This is was what their mothers would say if she and her cousins ever told them the things they folded inside their…

— Anna-Marie McLemore

“You can give me anything?" he asked. "Anything!" Lucifer cried. "Anything I ask for?" "Anything you desire!" "Can you give me love?"…

— Chris Stewart

“At first I thought I saw the sun setting in the east . . . . Then I realized that what I…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Without you, African mother, there would have been no us--African fathers, sons and daughters. Do we need to say any more African…

— Yosef A.A. Ben-Jochannan

So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing:…

— Marie Osmond

“And I am overwhelmed now by the awfulness of over-simplification. For now I realize that not only have I been guilty of…

— Alistair MacLeod

“His mother hesitated before she continued grilling him. “Is he a good boy?” “No, Mom, he’s Satan incarnate. In fact, once it’s…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?…

— Bible

Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.

— Eugene O'Neill

In the good old days, girls used to cook like their mothers, NOW THEY DRINK LIKE THEIR FATHERS.

— Nikhil Saluja

The awkward moment when Muary tells you, ''you are the father of her baby

— Isaac Morse

On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.

— Marlene Dietrich

Enjoy who you are. Dont hate yourself for what you arent.

— Anonymous

I think it's helped me to have two unconventional parents, who have always encouraged me to be myself.

— Anoushka Shankar

Sex without Condoms is Magicalà_A baby appears &&àThe Father Disappears.

— Camille Cassie Govender

It's important not to forget today that mothers can also be annoying.

— Jimmy Kimmel

The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.

— Walt Disney

My father is from the West Indies, the St. Thomas Virgin Islands.

— Stephen A. Smith

As a mother you have got to have a view for now and a view for the future.

— Vanessa Redgrave

My parents supported me a lot, they always asked me to keep my options open.

— Mayank Agarwal

These lies are like their father that begets them, gross as a mountain, open, palpable.

— William Shakespeare

All my mother's sisters are matriarchs - there are big characters and opinions.

— Roisin Conaty

Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.

— Lemuel K Washburn

You know, my father died of cancer when I was a teenager. He had it before it became popular.

— Goodman Ace