Parenting Quotes · Page 415

My mother will start to worry. Beautiful. What you're hurry and father will be pacing the floor.

— Matt Belsante

Father's Day used to be the only day you'd say I love you to your dad.

— Martin Kemp

Camping in the backyard last night for Father's Day! Wrestling, stories, s'mores...it was awesome!

— Drew Brees

The only day in your life… Your mother smiled when you cried...

— Abdul Kalam

You've got your mother in a whirl, she's not sure if your a boy or a girl.

— David Bowie

Parents have got to chill out. Let your kid eat dirt - they're gonna be fine!

— Jeff Garlin

My first memories of my mother are of a delicate lady with a kind voice.

— John Carter Cash

I have no mother here; I have a bearer. Jah is my mother, and Jah is my father.

— Peter Tosh

My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every…

— Amar'e Stoudemire

I have certain objectives. They're the same objectives my father had to give people a higher standard of living, to do away…

— Indira Gandhi

My ex-girlfriend said to me, 'I'm surprised at how normal you are since you were homeschooled.' But I was only homeschooled because…

— Reece Thompson

I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum Laudari…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It’s a mother’s job to give us the confidence needed to push through hard times.” — The Doctor’s Daughter: Totally heartbreaking and…

— Shari J. Ryan

“The days float on like a feather in the wind, but at the end of the week, I’m still a chicken. Taste…

— Jarod Kintz

“Jesus is busy with his own stuff, and is not going to get involved in your little tug-of-war. Plus, don't forget, he…

— Anne Lamott

The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.

— Natasha Trethewey

“I would move the earth to save your mother. D'ye hear me, Sarah? I would tear down the walls of her jail…

— Kathleen Kent

Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“The struggle in Mr. Guppy’s breast and the numerous oscillations it occasioned him between his mother’s door and us were sufficiently conspicuous…

— Charles Dickens

My mother was the first African-American policewoman in Seattle - recruited, actually - and she did it for only 2 years, as…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

There seems to be a notion that a single woman can't represent the interests of mothers. Frankly, there were plenty of Republican…

— Neera Tanden

“But parents aren't the only ones who can address stereotype threat. There's a lot that educators at all levels can do. Dr.…

— Michele Stephenson

“We aren’t who we want to be. We are what society demands. We are what our parents choose. We don’t want to…

— Paulo Coelho

The belief when your mother gives you away is that there's something deeply wrong. Mothers don't give babies away. There's something wrong…

— Mary Gauthier

“My father sighed, hiding behind the sad smile that followed him like a shadow all through his life.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Listen to me carefully: My father wasn't in my life, but it feels good taking care of my kids.

— Eric D. Thomas

“What thumbsuckers we all are...when it comes to mothers.”

— Margaret Atwood

I spoke to my father about making a documentary on him. I have been seriously contemplating that.

— Arbaaz Khan

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.

— Raquel Cepeda

Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees.

— Rajneesh

I am lucky I have him. After my parents passed away, Boneyji has been my father, mother, and husband.

— Sridevi

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.

— Sylvia Plath

We have a responsibility to Mother Earth to protect it as much as possible.

— Wes Studi

I got the top spot again! Glad to make my parents proud.. Its for the first period good start though!!!

— Chinney

I said to my mother, 'When you see my name in 'Vogue,' I will have arrived.'

— Mario Testino

Tobacco and alcohol, delicious fathers of abiding friendships and fertile reveries.

— Luis Bunuel

So let us sleep outside tonight, Lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely.

— Dave Matthews

My father is a street sweeper, my mother works in a shop.

— Maimouna Doucoure

You know whats worse than a deadbeat father? A deadbeat mother.

— Anonymous

Your mother can see the greatness in you, why can't you?

— Vikrant Parsai