Parenting Quotes · Page 401

“What use, Milton, a silly story Of our lost general parents, eaters of fruit?”

— Gary Snyder

“He was just like his father," Vic-toria Guzmán answered her. "A shit.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

There are only two things a child will share willingly -- communicable diseases and his mother's age.

— Benjamin Spock

“If you are blessed enough to still have your parents, honor them. And do it today.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Families don't have to match. You don't have to look like someone else to love them.

— Leigh Anne Tuohy

“I guess that’s the soft spot for orphans, eh? We’re so hungry for a father that we go blind.”

— Emory R. Frie

Bruce was a genius, conveniently born on Christmas Eve with, according to my mother, Messiah potential.

— Wendy Wasserstein

“Question 13 Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created? Answer”

— G.I. Williamson

Being a mother adds an enormous amount of stress to your life. You need to make sure you're there for everything.

— Kate Spade

As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and…

— Solomon Ortiz

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

— Faye Dunaway

I was trying to find out who my father was. They say that at that time, that if you are illegitimate, the…

— Eartha Kitt

My parents say that I was singing before I could talk. I personally remember specific moments at three or four when music…

— Tori Kelly

“There was his father, looking totally different but exactly the same. “Hey, son,” his dad said, his voice bending in that weird…

— Patrick Ness

When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother...…

— Bernice King

My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the…

— E. L. Doctorow

“I don't want any inheritance from my father. Do whatever the hell you want with it." "Wrong. You can do what you…

— Stieg Larsson

“Ryan, if you abandon me here, I will have no choice but to tell your father,” Navinka cut in. “You don’t want…

— Sam Dogra

“It was in Warrior Pose that I understood that my role as a mother must include both deep-rooted stability and openhearted freedom.…

— Richard Faulds

“The night before, Belle had stayed up past her bedtime, making a few changes to her doll with her father's tools. She…

— Random House Disney

“Shortly after you left the room, Bushell came over and spoke to your father. I was not near enough to hear what…

— Jennifer Paynter

“It is clear that the various personalities I am seeing are quite different from one another. The physical changes are startling. I…

— Lynn I. Wilson

My parents used books as bribes: if I got straight A's on my report card, they would buy me one book. This…

— Celeste Ng

“I dare not say what that fate would be,” interrupted the father, “or what my own, should I consent to assist you;…

— Ann Radcliffe

Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution.

— Dov Davidoff

Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

— Sam Ewing

“please.” Bean’s mother said that Nancy was going through a stage.”

— Annie Barrows

“Father Earth thinks in ages, but he never, ever sleeps. Nor does he forget.”

— N.K. Jemisin

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

— Erykah Badu

I am the pampered baby of the family, so much so that I can't imagine myself being a father.

— Zayed Khan

“Release the son from the crimes of the father. Civilized law decrees it. We”

— Ray Buckley

Every parent thinks they're the most qualified person to decide what is best for their child.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

Dear parents, just because I'm laughing at a text and smiling does not mean I'm flirting with someone,

— Anonymous

When Aamir Khan was in Haryana, we met him and he was very respectful to my parents.

— Geeta Phogat

No mother is perfect and every good mom makes mistakes. What matters most is her heart.

— Koena Mitra

Gene Simmons planned on being a success the moment he launched himself out of his mother's womb.

— Gene Simmons

A mother is always the beggining. She is how things begin.

— Amy Tan

Any father can relate to feeling like a superhero when you put a Band-Aid on your kid.

— Justin Hartley

What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Isn’t that an odd thing for a parent to wish for a child? That he would be less than what he is?”

— Tracy Guzeman