Parenting Quotes · Page 388

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

— Francis Bacon

“I yelled, wishing that the ground would open up and swallow me – or better yet, my parents.”

— Helen Keeble

“Get on before I blow you lose of your shoes and give your fathers cause to celebrate!”

— Stephen King

Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

— John Chrysostom

Disappointing your parents is the worst feeling rather than them being mad at you.

— Anonymous

Mildred Pierce was capable of great acts of love as a mother.

— Kate Winslet

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

— Homer

That awkward moment when you're wall raping your best friend and your parents walk into the room 0.o'

— Fingerchamp

One of the things about being a boy, especially growing up without a father, is you really don't have that role model…

— Art Alexakis

It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.

— Meghan O'Rourke

“I never sulked but my mother loved to. I would get very upset when she did that. Even now I get very…

— Karan Johar

My son has a big Christmas problem - what do you buy for a father who has everything and you're using it?

— Milton Berle

I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who…

— Tammy Duckworth

I am hardheaded. I really am, and if you could sit down and talk to my parents, you would realize why I…

— Lainey Wilson

My dad's cool with that kind of stuff. He always wanted me to do my best. I'm quite dyslexic in school. My…

— Georgia May Jagger

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on…

— Reese Witherspoon

The Founding Fathers and our fathers are rolling over in their graves as this great country voluntarily abandons its dreams of equal…

— David Limbaugh

Things happen in my physical body, in my relationships. I've buried three fathers and a mother. I've had a doctor tell me…

— Tony Robbins

“Attacking family members is all too typical of peer-oriented children, leaving parents and siblings wounded. In most cases, the attacks will not…

— Gabor Maté

My father told me that some voices are so true they can be used as weapons, can maneuver the weather, change time.…

— Joy Harjo

What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there's so many moments in your life where you have these dreams, and people…

— Howard Schultz

“We are not three gods, and we are not talking about one god with three attitudes, like a man who is a…

— Wm. Paul Young

I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby.…

— Amy Hempel

I have a certain memory of the way in which my father loved me until I was 10, and it was unconditional…

— Sterling K. Brown

Is The 'X Factor' the mother of all shows? Absolutely!

— Kevin Reilly

I have a strong Lutheran background, and my parents instilled in me strong morals.

— Tippi Hedren

People always have to have a reference - I think I'll always be in the shadow of my parents.

— Eliot Sumner

My mother taught me to read in part by reading me Walt Disney comics, and I never stopped.

— Diana Gabaldon

Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart. -Lazarus to his mother.

— Elizabeth Hoyt

I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.

— Martina Hingis

There was just no good way for a dead son to greet his mother almost two weeks after his funeral.

— Rachel Vincent

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

— Dan DeCarlo

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

— Tanya Tucker

“To be in charge as a parent means inspiring your children to motivate themselves.”

— Hal Edward Runkel

When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.

— Alec Baldwin

Mentoring is about sharing experiences, advice and knowledge. It's like having a God father.

— Anonymous

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater…

— Nelson Mandela

A career is a career, but youre a mother until you die.

— Shirley Eaton

I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.

— Drew Barrymore

I did buy my mother a Range Rover and a new crib. It feels good to say that.

— Lil Yachty