Parenting Quotes · Page 411

Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

— George Bernard Shaw

I've wanted to be a mother since I was 16, but I also just knew I wanted to have a career as well.

— Anne Hathaway

You'll only know what your parents went through if you're one!

— MJ

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

— Anonymous

Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.

— Nolan Bushnell

I was bitter about my parents until I realized how bitter they were about their parents.

— Anonymous

My parents have always been very supportive. I didn't go to school because my home was my school.

— Clara Mamet

“She’s the woman I love. The woman my sick fucker of a father doesn’t want me to love”

— Abbi Glines

“Bruce Wayne's parents get killed and he goes to Tibet or whatever, and Superman is an alien, and Spiderman had that radioactive…

— Rachel Hawkins

My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I…

— Brooke Shields

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school…

— Carre Otis

My father watched all the 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' that you could imagine, along with the martial arts. So I was…

— Rick Ross

Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for…

— Edward Norton

My father was the president of the Hearst Corporation, and my parents were close friends of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor,…

— Brigid Berlin

All of our family holidays were always work trips for my parents, so my sister and I would sit somewhere or find…

— Lucy Boynton

It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.

— Theodore White

“I was the boy who killed his first man at eleven. I was the teenager who crushed his cousin’s throat at seventeen.…

— Cora Reilly

This is our problem, our dilemma, yes? We cannot celebrate and declare ourselves to belong to the victorious nations because our brothers…

— Manfred Rommel

Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, you are not forgotten. No matter how dark your days may seem, no matter…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Here is Abraham Lincoln’s touching condolence letter to 22-year-old Fanny McCullough, the daughter of a long-time friend: “Dear Fanny It is with…

— Abraham Lincoln

It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him…

— Larry McMurtry

So I went home and I told my mom that I wanted to quit and be an actress and she said, “Huh,…

— Gena Rowlands

Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to…

— Michael Morpurgo

“Soraya-joon, I have done all that I could. Do not be sorry for us. Your mother and I await you upon your…

— Andre Dubus III

“My father was always good enough he never broke a bone,”

— Tamara White

“God did not intend for Irish kids to play in the sun, according to my mother.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson

My parents are a great source of help and support for me.

— Esha Deol

I wish that everyone could have my parents because they always let me choose whatever I wanted to.

— Jannik Sinner

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

— Anchee Min

My parents, Aparesh and Bansari Lahiri were very famous singers from Kolkata.

— Bappi Lahiri

parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.

— Stacy Schiff

I will never be your father. But when ever you need a Dad/Daddy that is what I am here for.

— Mike Deeves

I started out in life with two great advantages: No money and good parents.

— Margaret Thatcher

Poisinet's verses are like spoiled children - loved only by their father.

— Sophie Arnould

People make the world go, and Mothers make people, so they lead the dance.

— Peter V. Brett

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.

— Anthony Kiedis

One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn't completed being a boy.

— Iyanla Vanzant

“Human parents are probably really nice and let their kids stay up all day and do whatever they want.”

— Zack Zombie

We are eternal beings - spirit children of heavenly parents.

— Russell M. Nelson

Parents have too little respect for their children, just as the children have too much for the parents.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett