Parenting Quotes · Page 386

Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father.

— Samuel Chadwick

The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.

— Lorna Luft

Sometimes step mothers can make your life so dark that you'll never see yourself in success.

— Deesea Bass

My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.

— Patty Jenkins

“Unbelievable. My mother had the exact same mentality as my friends. When in doubt, be a bitch.”

— Kieran Scott

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

— Juvenal

Darling, The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world! REMEMBER THAT!

— L RAE BROWN

“Children also need to love back, as research with severely depressed mothers indicates.”

— Steven Stosny

My mother was cancer. She slowly destroyed everything around her. She produced two killers; me and my brother Joe.

— Richard Kuklinski

Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and moral needs. Government is not a father…

— William Bennett

My parents were drawn to the idea that there was space and opportunity in Australia. For the meagre sum of £10, you…

— Hugh Jackman

Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the…

— Lyle Lovett

“That was Hunter,' said Quinn as his father's footsteps faded away. 'I figured. Since he said to call him Hunter and everything.”

— Jennifer Sturman

My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, "All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: 'On the night…

— Pat Conroy

And while being murdered he said, Father, forgive them. They know not what they do. Because while he was dangling on that…

— Anonymous

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I…

— John Leguizamo

“Most adult children of toxic parents grow up feeling tremendous confusion about what love means and how it’s supposed to feel. Their…

— Susan Forward

I've always dressed myself, even when I was younger. My parents didn't pick out my clothes or anything. They let me do…

— Zendaya

As a child, I was tortured because my mother was a brilliant seamstress who made most of my clothes. I was despised…

— Lynda Resnick

My mom tells this story that even when I was in the womb, my father played the piano and she sang. So,…

— Cyrus Chestnut

I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in.…

— Timothy B. Schmit

“I am so accustomed to the young mom phenomenon, that when I saw the poster for The Proposal I wondered for a…

— Mindy Kaling

“Well, Mia, the guy told you he wanted you to be his wife and the mother of his children and you basically…

— Renee Carlino

Brace yourself! If we take in what the Holy Father is saying in his Theology of the Body, we will never view…

— Christopher West

“A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother's womb!”

— Munia Khan

We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

If your mother cant find it, then its gone forever!..

— Anonymous

“Begetting a child is at least as serious an act as murder...”

— James Agee

For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.

— Shelley Duvall

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother.

— Germaine Greer

One thing I know for sure - this motherhood thing is not for sissies.

— Jennifer Nettles

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

— Damien Hirst

Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business.

— Jared Kushner

When I was just four-and-a-half, my parents separated and both my parents remarried.

— Dia Mirza

Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.

— Alistair Begg

When we agree to be parents, we have to accept the good and the bad.

— Hilaria Baldwin

A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.

— Simon Soloveychik

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

My upbringing is such that I feel my husband is superior to me and his mother even more superior.

— Sonia Gandhi

I always looked up to my mother. My father was never around.

— Cedric Alexander