Parenting Quotes · Page 370

My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

— Alan Rickman

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.”

— Emilie Buchwald

My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.

— Jayne Meadows

I was 11 when my father died, so I didn't know my father so well.

— Louis van Gaal

The pride of a father can not be measured in a words.

— Juniorjk

One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents.

— Sara Shandler

So what is it with your mother that you haven't worked out yet?

— Byron Katie

When I started, my mother was already an actress and I wasn't keen on being one.

— Supriya Pathak

“...lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to…

— Charles Dickens

With the passing away of Mr Tarkunde, India has lost the father of the Civil Liberties movement in the country.

— Prashant Bhushan

One of the greatest gifts my job has given me is that my mother, who gave up her entire life for me,…

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Measuring Safety Performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give

— Robert Long

The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and…

— Tom DeLay

My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became…

— Bre Pettis

My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I have no talent…

— Cheryl Ladd

I know how lucky I am. I never take it for granted. In this country [USA], anything can happen - anybody can…

— Guy Fieri

After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“1. I’m lonely so I do lonely things 2. Loving you was like going to war; I never came back the same.…

— Warsan Shire

There were lots of nightly relationships. But the reason you don't want to make a commitment is not that you're such a…

— David Bowie

My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I…

— Helen Gurley Brown

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it…

— Meg Greenfield

I remember a very important lesson that my father gave me when I was twelve or thirteen. He said, "You know, today…

— Toni Morrison

You are demonstrating to men that they can come back and get their kids. All of those fatherless sons and daddy-less daughters…

— Iyanla Vanzant

“Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being.”

— Kittie Frantz

Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony.

— Quentin L. Cook

“What's life without risk," my father said. "Nothing but mauvais foi [bad faith]”

— Susan Hubbard

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

— Annette Funicello

Abortion doesnt make you unpregnant it makes you the mother of a dead baby

— Anonymous

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

— Lorna Luft

“I'm the parent. It's my job to be here for you, not the other way around.”

— Danielle Younge-Ullman

“EVOLUTION A great parent/mentor/teacher will push you beyond their attained status”

— Kamil Ali

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

— Henry Louis Gates

“My father would never object. He might make a face at first, then take it back.”

— André Aciman

My father took me to a lot of sports events as a child, and our TV stayed on ESPN.

— Freddie Gibbs

My parents didn't read to me. My dad was a jobbing labourer, my mother was in the cotton mills.

— Bernard Cribbins

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

— Paul Thomas Anderson

“We are mothers; we belong to each other. This coffee brings us together.”

— Tsh Oxenreider

To have been able to buy my parents a house in London is something no one can imagine.

— Katie Melua