Parenting Quotes · Page 399

It's complicated coming from a culture where to be a mother is more important than to have a career.

— Monica Bellucci

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

— David Geffen

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

— Anonymous

“I have hair in places monkeys dont.While giving birth my mother almost dies from rug burn.”

— Jim Rose

When I was younger, even though I had a big brother, my parents would give me the house key every day.

— Granit Xhaka

I'll NEVER forgive my deadbeat mom because she left my father when he needed her the most...Raising ME!

— Anonymous

She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

— Ann Brashares

I get parents under the microscope and teach calming techniques for those moments when the heart races.

— Jo Frost

“The Marine Corps is your family too. You may not have a mother here, but you have a shit pile of fathers,…

— Bud Rudesill

“I find in the Word a continuity, a way, or thought, or a scheme. He is a wonderful God, but a heavenly…

— John Wright Follette

My parents provided what they could but they could not buy football shoes for me. There was not any day where they…

— Victor Wanyama

Its so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares,…

— Ruth Buzzi

Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it's the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if…

— Blake Lively

We had a mother who could have been called a feminist. That's just how we were raised. Why do you have to…

— Ann Wilson

We need our Dads right now, we need strong fathers. I really want fathers to get close to their children.

— Cory Hardrict

“Love is the reason why my mother and father stick together in a hard life when they might each have an easier…

— Kao Kalia Yang

I engage with New York and America but my parents pretty much hang out in this radius of Long Island where their…

— Himanshu Suri

“I love you, Papa," I said. "And I love you," my father replied. "I have loved you every day of your life.…

— Cameron Dokey

“No matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still there. He knew it was like…

— Pat Cunningham Devoto

Have we told you before that we are the proudest parents in the whole world? Have we told you before that we…

— Anonymous

I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged,…

— Quentin Tarantino

“For me, the last few years of the postmodern era have seemed a bit like the way you feel when you're in…

— David Foster Wallace

“The Mother of God is asked to 'pray zealously to her Son and her God,' and the words of the psalm are…

— Boris Pasternak

Nothing can be more comforting than a mothers hug. I need loads of these! I miss you Mom. I may be far…

— Anonymous

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

— Adriana Trigiani

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings

— Jay London

“I suppose my mother would have been proud of me. At least I was wearing clean shorts.”

— J.A. Jance

My mother was a journalist, so writing is not unnatural to me.

— Ginger Rogers

Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.

— Sheryl Lee

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.

— Neil Gaiman

A baby is a very heavy thing, any mother will tell you.

— George Ella Lyon

Lincoln, speaking of his mother:] "God bless my mother; all that I am or ever hope to be I owe to her.

— William Herndon

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.

— George Herbert

I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.

— Kirstie Alley

The wind sounded of Mother Earth's forsaken and abandoned cries.

— Cormac McCarthy

Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

— Melanie Fiona

He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

— Carrie Fisher

Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.

— Mason Cooley

It was 1939. There was no money or jobs around. I did my parents a favor and joined the Navy.

— Jason Robards

“It is impossible to bring a child into this world for its own sake.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana