Parenting Quotes · Page 369

“How in the world do you tellyour wife that her mother was born a unicon?”

— Bruce Coville

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

— Clara Barton

No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights.

— C. S. Lewis

“No child ever became ‘good’ by being told that she or he was bad or by beating her/him.”

— Maddy Malhotra

“My mother used to say, “Fun is fun till someone loses an eye.”

— Frank Delaney

My father was like an unpolished diamond - tough outside but warm inside.

— Harshvardhan Rane

Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

— William Shakespeare

To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents.

— Pope Francis

I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give…

— Andrew Dice Clay

My mother had a fifth-grade education when my father passed away. I was 12 years old - but my mother took on…

— Mark Robinson

I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who…

— Nick Flynn

Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack…

— Isaac Asimov

~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her…

— Courteney Cox

“When he admires the man he calls his father: a man slightly above the scum of the earth—what does that speak about…

— Terry a O'Neal

“Who thinks to interview their own mother? As a self-fixated teen, I never imagined that she had an actual personal history. To…

— Jancee Dunn

“Hazel, do you enjoy it?' I paused a second, trying to figure out if my response should be calibrated to please Augustus…

— John Green

“Winnicott also cites the hostile lullabies mothers sing to babies, who fortunately do not understand the words. For example:   Rockabye, Baby,…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“It’s funny… when you’re young you spend your life trying to convince yourself you’re not like your parents. And then, every now…

— Kenny Porpora

“Jim, did your father really blow his brains out because of your mother?" "Yeah.He was on the telephone.He told her he had…

— Charles Bukowski

I hate it when I go out and I see parents going, 'don't do that', or 'stop doing that' when some kid's…

— Joe Strummer

“I stood there for a moment, studying each of us, taking in Kirstens's smile, Whitney's haunting gaze, the way my mother cocked…

— Sarah Dessen

“I am going to share with you the very essential (yet very simple) philosophies, strategies, tactics, techniques, tips, and tricks that you…

— Yohai Reuben

Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking…

— Ellen Galinsky

One of the most effective strategies to make your child more self-control is the weekly giving of allowance or pocket money as…

— Terrie Moffitt

No one seems to slander deadbeat Moms on Mother's Day...

— Anonymous

I'm the product of my parents' dreams and aspirations.

— Jensen Huang

The heaviest of my crosses was that I could do nothing to lighten the cross my mother was suffering.

— Margaret Mary Alacoque

By the time I was seven, my mother and I had moved 13 times.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn't be crazy kids in the world.

— Vincent Cassel

Choose a guy who will take you to his house to meet his parents not his bedroom.

— Pj

My mother's early life revolved around the Methodist faith.

— Carol Thatcher

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

— Marianne Moore

My graduation speech : I hate you all you mother fuckers, I'm out.

— Anonymous

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always had a strong support system. My parents always supported the stuff that I did.

— Jenna Ushkowitz

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

— Anonymous

“The only thing we can do is love that little girl as much as she deserves. And never, never hurt her!”

— M.L. Stedman

If I didn't have to prove my parents I can be something...I'd probably be traveling the world.

— Anonymous

I maybe convinced my parents to let me cut school once, but definitely, in college, I cut school a lot.

— Ethan Peck

I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.

— Ursula Burns