Parenting Quotes · Page 356

Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Oh Father, oh Mother, forgive us, for we know not what we do.”

— Edna O'Brien

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

— Anna Godbersen

If I could go back in time, I would give your parents a condom

— Green Monk

My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.

— Haley Reinhart

I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.

— Pamela Anderson

I didn't grow up with a mother telling me what was under my clothes was bad or evil.

— Charlize Theron

My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.

— Salman Rushdie

We call the Creator father, because we rely upon Him to protect us, guide us, feed us, keep us warm, to discipline…

— Terrence Howard

I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a…

— Helena Bonham Carter

The only movies I saw till I was 17 were made by Disney. My parents had this thing. Disney was like, you…

— Geena Davis

I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Shout out to the all the men out there stepping up, accepting responsibility and being fathers to my children.

— Anonymous

I'm decorating my parents' house for Christmas... I hope they find my manger with a baby yeezus in it as funny as…

— Lisa Lampanelli

Kids watch their parents, right? And when kids are three, four, five-years-old, that's when they're like a sponge, and who they are…

— Mathew Knowles

“Few, I believe, have had much affection for mankind, who did not first love their parents, their brothers, sisters, and even the…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I've come to admire our military kids more than you all will know, because you guys are heroes. And the only way…

— Michelle Obama

“All of us—employers, parents, schools, government agencies, and interns themselves—are complicit in the devaluing of work, the exacerbation of social inequality, and…

— Ross Perlin

All the homeschooling parents I know meet on a regular basis with other families. They organize field trips, cooking classes, reading clubs…

— Quinn Cummings

“Why shall we talk? To provide the right amount of clarity between family members in their home environment, and to spread the…

— Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi

“I'd left them because I'd loved them. Beth and my parents and my friends and my life-my free, American life. I loved…

— Andrew Klavan

“For Christ says: 'I am the Way by which one comes to the Father; there is no other way. I and no…

— Martin Luther

Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god,…

— Terry Pratchett

I urge you children to be patient with your parents. If they seem to be out of touch on such vital issues…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

I'm not a great father and there have been many occasions, when I fall short, but I'm genuinely trying.

— Rahul Dev

[On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father.

— Princess Diana

If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.

— Ray Bradbury

He's not responsible for what he's doing, cause his mother made him what he is.

— Jerry Jeff Walker

I'm jealous of my parent's, Cause they have an amazing kid like me.

— Simpleman

About your daddy and your mother and your crazy ex-lover .

— Toby Keith

Women without children can help mothers, and we can just be all in this together.

— Sheila Heti

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

— Ernest Hemingway

I was very young when my parents separated, and later, my mother remarried.

— Ishaan Khatter

If you were shopping for a father, you'd have to take out a serious loan to afford mine. He's the best.

— Peter DeLuise

My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

— Mukesh Ambani

I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.

— Amitabh Bachchan

I am greatly influenced by my father who was a journalist.

— Jaya Bachchan

My parents were real people. They didn't put on airs or false faces. They were what they were.

— John Carter Cash

Respect your parents. They passed school without GOOGLE.

— Michael Angelo De Leon

“Every good & perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the Heavenly Lights.”

— Anonymous