Parenting Quotes · Page 406

My father instilled in me the need to behave correctly on and off the pitch.

— Paolo Maldini

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

— David Frost

How you treat your parents now, is how your kids will treat you when you're a parent

— Ritu Ghatourey

I thought basketball was a game for women. My mother played basketball, and so did my sister.

— Dirk Nowitzki

Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.

— Halle Berry

I would like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

— Paul Desmond

I do look after everyone around me; that's just who I am. I am a real mother hen.

— Penny Lancaster

Someday when I have children, I will tell them that their father was not a prince that I ever dreamed.

— Anonymous

At the end of the day, you don't remember 'Mother India' or 'Pyaasa' for the business it did, you remember them because…

— Rajkumar Hirani

Interestingly enough, even though my parents didn't necessarily support what I was doing at first, going into comedy, a lot of what…

— Quinta Brunson

“Such is the lot of the narcissist's child, to inherit her parent's umbrage over the world's indifference.”

— Ann Packer

My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow.

— Keith Richards

“Repentance sounds like laughter and fun. We have embraced our Father, we have glimpsed His goodness, and we have become undone with…

— Stephen D. Morrison

People who say it was her father who prepared her for the post of prime minister, it was her father who launched…

— Indira Gandhi

“In the secular trinity of Irish-American values, loyalty and humor are father and son. Self-deprecation is the spirit that works in mysterious…

— Maureen Dezell

There's a lot of kids just like me growing up in the Philippines, so I don't want them to give up. So…

— apl.de.ap

I was born into a religious cult in Indianapolis, straight up. They had an apartment complex in this one area, and there…

— Adrianne Lenker

When I have children that go home and mom and dad are not home because they're working, they're trying to get food…

— Rafe Esquith

Now let the conquerors who would move forward in the flame of the Holy Spirit be willing to draw the sword of…

— Pearls Of Wisdom

“...I remember that my mother had always said to be polite and finish my meal. At last he gave no more struggles.…

— Wynter Wilkins

“The mothers in my neighborhood were screamers and yellers, silent fuming carpet-raking speed cleaners or detached unkempt anticleaners, all-day-luncheon martini drinkers, chain…

— Laurie Lindeen

“I've hoped for this for so many years, waited for someone to come along whom you could finally love more than your…

— Bella Andre

A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words,…

— Gore Vidal

"The Prince Of Tides" is a lot about my mother - what my mother would do after Dad would hit one of…

— Terry Gross

I am the younger version of my father. I try to be as normal as I can.

— Divock Origi

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

— Melinda Gates

K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.

— Bill Gates

As children, we develop some scorn for our parents and their imperfections.

— Maya Soetoro-Ng

A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be.

— Anonymous

Being mothers, we try to stay home as much as possible and attend to the children.

— Nancy Wilson

When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, my mom was, like, 'I think I heard you say lawyer.'

— Maz Jobrani

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.

— Ruta Sepetys

Whatever their age, most men have never received true fathering.

— John Eldredge

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

— Uma Thurman

I enjoy the challenge of being a father... I try to do my best to be there for my children.

— Tony Finau

My parents always wanted the very best for me and pushed me further and further, so that stuck with me.

— Nathan Chen

Since I was very small, I always said to my mother, 'I want to wear the French national team jersey.'

— Wendie Renard

Three of them got killed. My mother was shot in the knee. But by God's grace, she's still alive.

— Tamba Hali

“When he was 19, Mick Jagger said, "what a drag it is getting old... (Mother's little Helper)”

— The Stones

Becoming a father is incredible. There is no explanation for the feeling.

— Ruben Neves