Parenting Quotes · Page 409

He who strikes his father or mother his hand will grow out of the grave.

— Vikrant Parsai

“When you feel worry brewing, instead of sitting there stewing, get up and start doing.”

— Denise Marek

I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.

— Twyla Tharp

I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.

— Samuel Alito

“My Father is glorified by this: that you produce much fruit and prove to be My disciples. John 15:8”

— Beth Moore

Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years!

— Richard Hammond

I'd like to thank my parents for not practicing birth control.

— Dustin Hoffman

“Your mother loves to perform fellatio upon syphilitic dogs.”

— Lawrence Block

“His life’s ambition is to have his head cut off and stuck up on a plaque just like his mother,” said Ron…

— J.K. Rowling

I've definitely grown a lot as an individual, as a man, and as a father, and that perspective needs to be shared…

— Xzibit

“I used to have Santa and the whole coal thing, but between Wade and their father, the little shits get whatever they…

— Ethan Day

“If she then has to cry to communicate her hunger, when she gets to her mother’s breast she might be too exhausted…

— Gabrielle Palmer

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed…

— Erma Bombeck

It was my mother's dream to have a few houses next door to each other, where they could live in one, and…

— Teresa Ruiz

He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

— Horace

Twitter allowed me to talk about parenting in short snippets and find out what I really wanted to say about it, which…

— Jim Gaffigan

I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that…

— Ally Condie

My father, in a way, was a mentor in the way he instilled the basic values and ethics in me. My mother…

— Chanda Kochhar

“the Father is the primordial principle. However, in addition, the Son and Holy Spirit have their own unique principle as well. The…

— John G. Shobris

I grew up in New York City during the Depression. My earliest recollections were of my parents talking about what they would…

— Stan Lee

Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It…

— Laura Dern

“Do you realize the cost they paid when they surrendered to their new Lord? No money, no job, no understandable future. They…

— James W. Goll

The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got…

— Jeff Vespa

The Chinese model calls for giving your kids very little choice - and I've come to see that you can go too…

— Amy Chua

Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.

— Uncle Kracker

My parents always kept my brothers and I in sports to keep us out of trouble.

— Nia Jax

My father is an engineer, and my mother raised the three children.

— Yasmine Hamdan

“My mother is my pastor She teaches me the Bible I love her as my mentor She tells me to be humble!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Kids on the set tend to be a pain, and if they're not, their parents are.

— Timothy Olyphant

“She was his wife, mother, best friend, sister, lover, and priest.”

— Dennis Lehane

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

— Anna Lee

“Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted.”

— John Green

“Why is it that parents always want to know every detail about your boring day at school?”

— Heather Vogel Frederick

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.

— Janice Dickinson

I was a very un-literary child, which might reassure parents with kids who don't read.

— Alain de Botton

“She became a frame for the picture that was her son and daughter.”

— Erica Bauermeister

No better blessing than the responsibility of fatherhood.

— Stephen Curry

“plage, various seaside chairs and stools supported the parents”

— Vladimir Nabokov

I think we're such great parents together - I could not have picked a better partner to have kids with.

— Jessie James Decker

“He had a daddy, but he’d never get to know his father, and the knowledge of that pained me every day.”

— Isabella Starling