Parenting Quotes · Page 396

“My father’s,” she says, smiling. “He used to think I was the greatest thing ever.”

— Nicola Yoon

I want to be remembered as, I hope, an amazing husband and a great father.

— Jason Momoa

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

— Al Capone

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

My father and brother always forced me to work out, and I never liked doing it.

— Bobby Deol

I have a very non-existent, dysfunctional relationship with my biological mother.

— Antoni Porowski

Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

I'm no parenting guru. I suppose you just take everyday as it comes and do what you think is best.

— Spencer Matthews

My parents taught me broad Christian values. To be kind to one another, to be honest, not to just think about yourself.

— Sofia Helin

“I swear Father, if our prehistoric ancestors had twitter and facebook we would still be without the wheel.”

— S.E. Meyer

“Child!' Eleanor exclaimed. 'You didn't say there'd been a child!' 'I said a catastrophe,' her mother replied. 'And believe me, in cases…

— Eloisa James

As a woman, sadly, you go from the girl to the love interest to the wife to the mistress to the mother…

— Geraldine James

When you become a mother, it's a common thing that you just want to put every ounce of your being into your…

— Lacey Chabert

“When we say the rosary — we are saying to God, the Trinity, to the Incarnate Savior, to the Blessed Mother: “I…

— Donald H. Calloway

My father passed away in 2005, and day after, I sat in my flat in Woolwich on my bed, and I feel…

— Ashley Walters

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

— Yoko Ono

Be there...care...and put your children first in your life. When you are given the awesome responsibility of being a father, that is…

— John Harbaugh

“We came home because we were failures. We wouldn't admit that, of course, not at first, not to ourselves, and certainly not…

— Eleanor Brown

“A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she…

— Alice Walker

“His only-begotten Word, who is always present with the human race, united to and mingled with His own creation, according to the…

— The Church Fathers

“The prayers we weave into the matching of the socks, the working of our hands, the toiling of the hours, they survive…

— Jon Bloom

Power is not nearly enough for Trump. Power he already possessed, starting with the money his father gave him, which grew into…

— Faith Salie

Our Heavenly Father loves us. He sent His Only Begotten Son to be our Savior. He knew that in mortality we would…

— Henry B. Eyring

“Hades smiled coldly. "Hello, Father. You're looking...young." "Hades," Kronos growled. "I hope you and the ladies have come to pledge your allegiance."…

— Rick Riordan

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays

— Beth Henley

Communicating w/kids, its a 2 way street, sometimes they just need us to be there for them & listen.

— Kevin Heath

Without parents, you sort of lose the gravity that keeps your feet on the earth.

— Howard Lutnick

“In the weeks between my father's visit and Cal's death, I hurt my friend in ways that frightened me.”

— Amber Dermont

I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work.

— Sonia Rykiel

A girl's father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.

— David Jeremiah

Unlike Western parents, reminding my child of Lord Voldemort didn't bother me.

— Amy Chua

The family of my mother had a lot of money; the family of my father, nothing.

— Charo

We cannot lead anyone farther than we have been ourselves.

— John C. Maxwell

“Peer relationships are safest when they are the natural offspring of attachments with the parents.”

— Gordon Neufeld

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

— Nancy Friday

“Be what you want to be,not what your parents want.”

— Faraz

“I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!”

— Melissa Etheridge

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

— Amy Sedaris

My mother has been an advocate for me as far as modeling goes.

— Margaret Qualley

My entire family are in music and my father was a classical singer, teacher and composer.

— Kumar Sanu