Parenting Quotes · Page 390

My father, a good man, told me, 'Never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it.'

— Erich Maria Remarque

Do without if you need to, but don't do without mother.

— H. Burke Peterson

Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.

— Kathryn Stockett

Lucky I have strong legs like my mother. To run for cover when I need it.

— Shakira

Who would ever have thought that Robert Ludlum would have become the father of modern action cinema?

— Elvis Mitchell

“You say,“Lazy parenting.” I say, “Priorities, priorities, priorities.”

— Robin O'Bryant

My father was in the navy and so while he was deployed soon after I was born we moved to Australia.

— Sean Murray

Parents can shape a child, but a great teacher can, too.

— Susanne Bier

I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from…

— Gwen Stefani

My parents always told me to be myself. I was always funny and silly as a kid. And I would always make…

— Richard Simmons

“...I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children, if…

— Hilary Mantel

I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.

— Alexandra Fuller

MOTHER is Beautiful creation, because in this selfish world she is the only one, who always wants ti see you happy..

— Ritu

I started writing letters home to my mother, saying that I wanted to come home, grandma won't let me sing.

— Mavis Staples

“My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, MasterCard, and American…

— Laurie Anderson

My father, Tommy, who was a trained draughtsman, played for Preston North End in the Finney era. He liked football but did…

— Mark Lawrenson

Landon Carter: [Reading from Jamie's mother book] Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or…

— A Walk To Remember

“My mother was a royal virgin," Peterson said, "and my father a shower of gold. My childhood was pastoral and energetic and…

— Donald Barthelme

I was very lucky to have a father who read to us when we were children. And he didn't just read books…

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!…

— Charles Bukowski

Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be…

— Samuel Johnson

“Kiara watched the two of them. While it was obvious they knew each other, she wanted to know how. Had Nykyrian been…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

My mother had just died, and I had to walk a long way behind her coffin, surrounded by thousands of people watching…

— Prince Harry

Every parent worries for their child, but I do worry that he's all right, and happy and stable, and that I've done…

— Heather Small

In spite of my parents being actors, I never took acting as a profession for granted and still don't.

— Shriya Pilgaonkar

I've wanted to be a comedian since I was a kid, and my parents were very supportive of that.

— Brett Gelman

I shoe my p-ssy and I get whatever I what. I learned that from my mother

— Rihanna

Wise parents know that fighting a teenager, like fighting a riptide, is inviting doom.

— Haim Ginott

I am blessed to have a father who longs/desires to be gracious & compassionate towards me.

— Anonymous

“Myra was less a helicopter parent than a helicopter gunship parent.”

— Heide Goody

A little child born yesterday A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed.

— Homer

My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine.

— Toots Thielemans

Loving a parents is more precious than anything else in this world

— Mariel Atos

I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.

— H. R. Giger

Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time

— Kevin Heath

I'm not a truthiness fanatic, I'm truthiness's father.

— Stephen Colbert

Being a parent means supporting your kids not just financially but emotionally.

— Anonymous

Both Sheena and I are working parents, and we know how hard it is to balance work and parenting.

— Eric Greitens

I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

— Diane Lane

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

— Leonardo da Vinci