Parenting Quotes · Page 374

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.

— M Grundler

A lot of people have told me they have mothers like my mother. I seriously doubt it.

— Hannah Gadsby

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey

— Mark Twain

My parents were entrepreneurs. I grew up believing in the power of innovation.

— Noreena Hertz

Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are?

— A. E. Hotchner

I'm a very secretive person. That's how I grew up. My father was very secretive.

— Isabelle Adjani

The value of holding a grudge. And to always refer to my father sarcastically as Mr. Wonderful.

— Jon Stewart

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

— Jeb Bush

I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go…

— Nate Berkus

My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of…

— David Bowie

My parents used to bring me to Radio City when I was a little girl, so performing there 50 years later was…

— Wendy Liebman

I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job,…

— Katey Sagal

My parents got divorced when I was nine months old, and my father would only pop in and see me once a…

— RJ Mitte

“I know what it means to hunger without being hungry. My father believes hunger is in the mind. I know differently. I…

— Roxane Gay

A freshman at Michigan State University was randomly assigned to the same dorm room his father occupied in 1978. A fact that…

— Seth Meyers

Luckily, I had incredible parents who, when they saw a problem, didn't say, "Why doesn't somebody do something?" They would say, "Why…

— Marian Wright Edelman

Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie…

— Anjelica Huston

First, draw off your hearts, because Jesus Christ, the Head, is risen and ascended upon high, and there sits at the right…

— Christopher Love

And if I get a little chemically imbalanced in the head, like we all know I tend to get sometimes, and I…

— Melina Marchetta

My first experience with music was my father, he was a stereo buff and he built his own little Hi-Fi center with…

— Ronnie Montrose

“That was how a household as contradictory as one composed of Hones, Father Keeley, Vice-Bundesfueher Krapptauer, and the Black Fuehrer could exist…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I like to think I'm a night person, because that's my job, but now I'm a father of three. I'm trying to…

— Dave Matthews

I just feel like the world is our oyster. I grew up knowing that my mother is a journalist and was one…

— Liz W. Garcia

“More often than not, it’s disrespectful to them (our children) - and disrespectful to their struggle with their tasks in life- if…

— Daniel Gottlieb

My mother was a beautiful lady, elegant, chic, and that was the biggest inspiration to me.

— Hubert de Givenchy

“My kid, her life. I want for her what she wants for herself.”

— Laura Castoro

“Reject the fearmongering. Adopt best practices. Slow down.”

— Anonymous

I always loved being in London and being near my parents.

— Sophie Winkleman

After 2012, I wanted to stop, but my father told me I had to play the World Cup. I tried to be good.

— Samir Nasri

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

— Hugh Leonard

It can't be bad having a mother who is fulfilled by her work.

— Janine di Giovanni

My parents are conservatives. Owning a small business lent itself to that viewpoint.

— Daniel Cameron

I am a husband, son and father, a reader, a traveller, a fan, and also a cook.

— Prakash Raj

There are good mothers and bad ones, but most of them are somewhere in-between.

— Jane Goodall

I was conceived after doctors told my mother she'd never have children. I'm a miracle - we all are.

— Jill Scott

Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration, but we all know her suicides are fake.

— The Police

I want to follow in my father's footsteps, but do it better.

— Tony Parker

When I was born my mother was terribly disappointed. Not that she wanted a girl - she wanted a divorce.

— Woody Allen

A father is not someone who puts pictures up online, but has not seen them in five years.

— Anonymous

Protect girls like your DAUGHTER, love her like WIFE, respect her like your MOTHER. Let them live.

— Shubham Joshi