Parenting Quotes · Page 395

My father always said excuses are the crutches for the untalented.

— Ken Venturi

“Parents want the best for their children … for themselves.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My parents are very good examples of Christians. They are big on forgiveness.

— James Acaster

It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.

— Joy Browne

If you are sinlge ou don't have to live with someone who can't stand your parents.

— Anonymous

Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead.

— Bob Dylan

A mother should be like a quilt...keep the children warm but don't smother them.

— Anonymous

We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.'

— John Burroughs

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as…

— Jack White

“He’s got the curly Irish hair. You can’t eat him because he might be your father, and you’ll spoil your dinner.”

— Jarod Kintz

Kids haven't changed much, but parents seem increasingly unhappy with the child raising phase of their lives.

— Penelope Leach

My father always wanted me to be president of the United States, and his fallback position was that I not become a…

— Kevin Sessums

Being compared to the best driver in F1 history is the goal you want to achieve, and to have that as my…

— Mick Schumacher

Whether I'm running, working, relating, parenting, learning - whatever I'm doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me.

— Kristin Armstrong

Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it's all about: the delight…

— Eric Clapton

Parents can't indulge our fears. We're supposed to make our kids feel safe, even if we don't feel safe ourselves.

— Dana Milbank

In some communities it is - like, for me, coming out with my parents, they were not accepting; they were not understanding.…

— Dee Rees

You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The…

— Orson F. Whitney

“She had known it was bad, call it a mother’s instinct, but she’d known this was the knock that was going to…

— Andrew Barrett

My father, who was a sergeant in the RAF during the Second World War, was killed in a hitchhiking accident while returning…

— Eric Idle

In the time of my parents, before World War One, most people who came to New Zealand from Europe were the more…

— Maurice Wilkins

“Poor Metias. He’s not supposed to be a father. He’s supposed to be out on his own, independent and free to concentrate…

— Marie Lu

I've seen beautiful and profound change and growth in men who are becoming fathers. Women get to carry the baby, so you…

— Liv Tyler

I had such a horrible childhood. My father was already married with three children when I was born and my mother didn't…

— Udo Kier

My parents disagreed sharply with me over the decision to leave school.

— Ryan Holiday

You can fudge a lot as an actor, but you can't fudge being a parent.

— Paul Bettany

My parents were very unusual people, but it was more valuable to have other people say that than me.

— Brooke Hayward

Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?" "Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more.

— Lev Grossman

Saturnz Return' proves how important the mother issue was for me in my life.

— Goldie

“I had my first cigarette when I was five,” he says, making rings of smoke. “With my mother.”

— Steen Langstrup

I'm a wife and a mother. I don't want to be immature; I have to be ready at all times.

— Sarah Shahi

I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.

— Bruce Beutler

I listen to my mother, and that keeps me out of trouble. I'm a good son.

— Mr. T

My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

— Dorothy Malone

“But enemies, as his mother used to say, are the price of success.”

— Joe Abercrombie

My father has a pretty big ego and he has to do things his way sometimes.

— Shane Mosley

My father had a great legacy and implemented important policies for Canada.

— Caroline Mulroney

It's my nature, and I was given this by my parents, to live for those big moments.

— Danilo Gallinari

My mother loves me and everything goes well. I have no conflict with her, so that's not dramatic.

— Ang Lee

My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky