Parenting Quotes · Page 385

My parents emphasized experiential learning - in my family, being adventurous was a sign of maturity.

— Ali Wong

You can have fun with a son, But you got to be a father to a girl.

— Oscar Hammerstein II

My father had a way of exposing himself, of showing weakness and still retaining his dignity.

— John Carter Cash

I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.

— Thom Yorke

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality

— Iris Marion Young

“very few parents, in any age, are able to feel relaxed about the upbringing of an eldest child.”

— Andrew Cook

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

— Phillip Lim

“Like a feather, I let you go. To where you belong.”

— Merlin Franco

Both me and my parents wanted me to lead a normal life, work in a normal '10 to 5' job and put…

— Soha Ali Khan

My mother became a big problem... She was a complete narcissist. When I broke free her narcissisticness came out and it was…

— Lady Colin Campbell

“Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it…

— David Foster Wallace

My father would talk to me about the moon, and to me it was mysterious and poetic, like a large, beautiful, honey-colored…

— Judith Love Cohen

“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

— Plato

Every parent has the responsibility to cultivate his child's heart. If we leave our children's heart alone, they tend to become like…

— Robert Jeffress

“So', she said, lifting her beer in a toast to the newest comer to LostRoses. 'Do you have a name or was…

— Janet Kagan

In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else’s mother was…

— Patricia C. Wrede

I'm doing everything in my power to be a great mother. I wish I could be with her throughout the day, because…

— Christina Milian

My father did think I should get interested in television. But I had very little interest in television and it wasn't something…

— James Ivory

“My father is deceast, come Gaveston,' And share the kingdom with thy deerest friend.' Ah words that make me surfet with delight:…

— Christopher Marlowe

“God’s Word   “Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so…

— Glenn Langohr

The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them…

— Vandana Shiva

“Normality is like a home to us and everyday life a mother. After a long incursion into great poetry, into the mountains…

— Fernando Pessoa

The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I know a girl She puts the color inside of my world But she's just like a maze Where all of the…

— John Mayer

“I have hardly gone and hardly wish'd to go any farther.”

— Walt Whitman

“Did you notice there aren’t any average kids anymore—only Gifted and Disposable?”

— Heather Choate Davis

A word of advice - don't invite your parents to the after-party at 4 A. M.

— Courtney Act

(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.

— James Thurber

Mother, being a pianist, told me how to play with my fingers on the piano.

— Cecil Taylor

My father was a religious leader in the community, and my sister is a pastor.

— Roger Ross Williams

I've been buried in IRAC so long, they should be paying my parents a military pension.

— Anonymous

“Real Fathers are Solution Providers and not a part of the problem to be solved.”

— Fela Durotoye

I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.

— Tammin Sursok

Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other.

— Laurence J. Peter

For the parents of a Little Leaguer, a baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown into innings.

— Earl Wilson

My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

— Charlie Trotter

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

He's not suitable for you, baby. -Allie's father (to Allie, about Noah)

— The Notebook

No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.

— Erma Bombeck

There is no way to discribe the feeling of a child whos parent chose a drug over them.

— Anonymous