Parenting Quotes · Page 365

My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.

— Chelsea Clinton

My parents were very famous, but they were never snobs.

— Maye Musk

Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast.

— Maggie Stiefvater

My parents didn't pay for college because we all got scholarships.

— Kyle Korver

My parents grew up on different ends of the same street in St John's in Antigua.

— Andi Oliver

My father, Inder Raj Anand - a famous writer in his own right - was a great friend of Satyajit Ray.

— Tinnu Anand

My mother always said to me, 'Right makes might.' At last, I can believe her.

— Paula Coughlin

My father, he left the family when I was 13, so mum looked after us.

— Anh Do

I'll never forget my father's response when I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, 'If you do this,…

— Cassandra Dunn

True success in any endeavor can only come when the Father has initiated the activity and invited our participation.

— Priscilla Shirer

“death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in…

— Robert Saucy

“These hands elate my life, choke me, broil my bosom, spank me, give fire to my words, my words, mother, my heart…

— Laura Gentile

“Don’t let this choice [of a marriage partner] ever be made except with earnest, searching, prayerful consideration, confiding in parents, [and] in…

— Richard L. Evans

Entrust yourself entirely to God. He is a Father and a most loving Father at that, who would rather let heaven and…

— Paul of the Cross

There is no relation more intimately personal than that of parents to the child they have brought into the world; and there…

— Suzanne La Follette

I am a first-generation American of Chinese decent. My parents were both born and raised in China and moved to the U.S.…

— Nathan Chen

He's got the whole bad-boy-in-need-of-redemption thing going on, but the catch is, most bad boys don't want redemption. They like being bad.…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Economically anxious, many parents see their children's accomplishments as a sort of insurance against the financial challenges of old age; high-achieving kids,…

— Alissa Quart

“What is leave?—A pause that only makes everything after it so much worse. Already the sense of parting begins to intrude itself.…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Secretly, I still get proud of the ways Rosie and I loved each other. We had no one else to learn from…

— Tana French

“The houses in the better part of San Francisco, in those days, were all alike and all so ugly it was a…

— George Albee

My dad was an alcoholic and my mother...we didn't have any money and I grew up really poor. I watched them spend…

— CM Punk

“When I was five years old, my father bought a little yellow-haired pup for fifty cents. He was the light and joy…

— Dale Carnegie

He flung his arms around her neck, but only once he saw Silvertoungue's back was turned. He never knew with fathers. "I'll…

— Cornelia Funke

I was a pretty heartbroken 13-year-old. That was the year my grandmother died and my parents split up.

— Abi Morgan

I know what it is to be a mother of sons in real life.

— Amala Akkineni

“That's the mission of a father: to reassure and protect.”

— Brooke and Keith Desserich

Girls need to find a guy that will take them to meet their parents, not their bedroom.

— Anonymous

I often dream of becoming a father who cooks for his kids.

— Anonymous

Blue was awfully fond of her father, considering she'd never met him.

— Maggie Stiefvater

“It hurts a father to see a son this way. It makes no difference what age the son is; it hurts.”

— Chaim Potok

And my father had a farm in Africa. Have you ever taken the insides out of a stag?

— Princess Michael of Kent

Other kids would take their parents to the toy store and I'd take my mom to the record store.

— Daron Malakian

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.

— Michael Leunig

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

— Anonymous

A man can stop loving his wife. But he will never stop loving the mother of his children¦

— Shubham Joshi

I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.

— Michael Reagan

I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.

— Aerin Lauder

Never date a woman whose father calls her princess. chances are she believes it.

— Anonymous

“I would never trust her. Not one hundred percent. Not the way some people can trust their mothers.”

— Jacqueline Woodson