Parenting Quotes · Page 397

No matter how old you are, you always want your parents' approval.

— Michelle Keegan

Iam sorry for cheating with my mother I just can't resist a mother's love

— Chwayita Betshe

I never really believe people when they say they have no regrets - mine is not being a mother.

— Annastacia Palaszczuk

The awkward moment when you're smiling at your phone and your parents ask who you're talking to.

— Anonymous

Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models.

— Kumar Sangakkara

What daughter doesn't want to continue her mother's journey?

— Laphonza Butler

I talk to my parents a couple of times a week. I talk to my daughters every day.

— Denise Morrison

Every man plays many roles. So far, I have played father the best.

— Dhanush

I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

— Laura Dern

My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.

— Madeline Kahn

The example of parents is the greatest teacher. Parents must stand out as models of happiness to their children.

— Robert Muller

If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet…

— Zac Efron

“As his mother drove him away on the day he was let out, Stuart broke the cardinal prison rule: like Lot's wife,…

— Alexander Masters

Happy Father's Day to a wonderful husband who no matter what having kids has done to my body still seems to want…

— Anonymous

“We now play a permanent game of I-am-crazier-and-scarier-than-you. And in that game, my mother is our secret weapon.”

— Susan Ee

It took my parents years to save up for 'luxuries' like a fridge or a television, and we were always among the…

— John Virgo

“You said,' Camille protested, 'that when you wanted to get on terms with Gabrielle you cultivated her mother. It's true, everybody saw…

— Hilary Mantel

“She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what…

— Neil Gaiman

You can make changes in your life and you can say, "I'm going to be a better parent next year than I…

— Joel Osteen

“Every state sets its own rules for adoptions, and the steps the Bryans took to secure legal protections for themselves and their…

— Anonymous

I respect my parents' opinion very much. No matter how old you are, what your parents think is very important. If they…

— Olivia Newton-John

It takes time--loose, unstructured dreamtime-- to experience nature in a meaningful way. Unless parents are vigilant, such time becomes a scarce resource,…

— Richard Louv

“Your father's last words were touching." Elie's breath hitched. "You're lying." "Why would I do that?" He reached into his vest and…

— Ashley Nikole

I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in…

— Charles Darwin

The girls you picked up from the bars were not the girls you took home to mother.

— Carl Andre

I am your father and as long as you live under my ocean you will do as I say!!!!!!! -King Triton

— The Little Mermaid

“Kids never want a perfect mother; they need a little love, even if that comes from a worst mother.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.

— Bible

“Think you I am no stronger than my own sex being so father'd and husbanded?”

— William Shakespeare

“I’m going to do. I want to look at the microcard without my parents or Bram glancing”

— Ally Condie

Yea LFLS nigga, like father like son, All day very day nigga, make money til it don't make sense.

— Birdman

Abduction of Father Tom Uzhunnalil is a matter of grave concern for us.

— Sushma Swaraj

Do you know why Chelsea Clinton is so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father.

— John McCain

She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.

— Cynthia Voigt

The fastest way to be a bad parent is to never let your child be a kid.

— Anonymous

My mother died just long enough to name me - Tom after my father, Marvolo after my Grandfather.

— Tom Riddle

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

— Rafael Nadal

Of all the gifts that life has to offer, a loving mother is the greatest of them all.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Though a mother gives birth to nine sons, all nine will be different.

— Anonymous

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

— Jim Carrey