Parenting Quotes · Page 400

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

— Cary Grant

If you know you're mother raised you right, you wouldn't toy around with her emotions.

— Matthew Van Zyl

Mother Nature is a relentless ruthless killer. She don't give a damn if you get home to your family.

— Joe Teti

“A parent always tries to protect his child's world from the harsh reality of adulthood. - Busch”

— Richard Doetsch

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person.

— Meredith Vieira

I'm very lucky my parents were into different kinds of music.

— Devendra Banhart

Why should children shit only hope that they should understand the Parents|

— Mak_786

John 14:21) Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be…

— GODDEY WILSON

My mother loved films! She adored Ingrid Bergman, Joan Fontaine, Vivien Leigh. We couldn't afford to go together to the cinema, but…

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

My mother's a staunch feminist, so I grew up with very strong feminist messages. As a result, I battled her in my…

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I was adopted legally around age three, but it's not like this thing I think about when I wake up every day.…

— Angel Olsen

Rich, smart parents tend to have rich, smart kids - not because it's genetic but because they can create a home environment…

— George Kaiser

My mom woke me up this morning by screaming at the top of her lungs because Mac Miller was on mtv...Like mother,…

— Anonymous

My parents covered police pursuits, and it was, in many ways, the beginnings of reality show TV in this captivating story that…

— Katy Tur

I never smoked in my life. Neither did my mother. And so many women I meet whose mothers or aunts or whoever…

— Valerie Harper

My father said, 'Son, when you grow up, I don't want you to be a member of a party that caters to…

— Hector Ruiz

I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And…

— Stella McCartney

My mother and my father had very, very strong Scots accents. We were Australian, and in those days when I was young,…

— George Ogilvie

“If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable…

— Jane Clayson Johnson

“Would you rather you were able to experience the reunion with a long-lost set of parents who had been suffering for years…

— Aprilynne Pike

Dr. [Paula] Menyuk and her co-workers [at Boston University's School of Education] found that parents who supplied babies with a steady stream…

— Jane Brody

Everyone on the cast was a dream. We were all young and sharing a unique, thrilling, and intimidating experience together. All the…

— Leven Rambin

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the…

— Sam Donaldson

My mother's been married many, many times and grew up believing in love like that. It's remarkable.

— Sherilyn Fenn

“Mama wasn’t Mama anymore, she was Mother, usually followed by a “pallease!”

— Katherine Allred

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

— Kim Raver

One thing my mother had a nose for was inauthenticity.

— Michael Keaton

“My father greeted me with his usual air of mild regret.”

— Evelyn Waugh

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

— Mark Twain

My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.

— Andy Rooney

“Born from different parents, they were siblings in death, destroyed by the same hand.”

— Clive Barker

There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else.

— Aya Cash

My parents divorced when I was six but stayed close.

— Andrew Zimmern

Unconditional parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

— Alfie Kohn

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.

— Laurence Binyon

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.

— Tori Amos

My parents lived very long lives. And good lives, too. They're great people, but good lives.

— Donald Trump

God is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body.

— Anonymous

“Mother nature is a bitch, she hides her weaknesses and makes them look like her strengths.”

— Dakarai Alberty