Parenting Quotes · Page 417

No child can repay his father unless he finds him enslaved and then buys him and sets him free.

— Muhammad

“remember love is all bull, the only true love is that between mother and child.”

— Edna O'Brien

At the time I became a parent, I was taking on a more active creative role in my industry.

— Asher Keddie

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

— Liza Minnelli

As a parent who works in showbiz, you never really want your child to go into it.

— Stephen Schwartz

There are a lot of Toms, Was my father a wizard? He was called Tom Riddle, too, they've told me.

— Tom Riddle

My parents have always been very supportive. I didnt go to school because my home was my school.

— Clara Mamet

How could a mother who boils water for pasta leave two little girls behind?

— Jandy Nelson

As a former competitive athlete and a mother to a daughter who is a D1 collegiate athlete, I staunchly oppose biological males…

— Marjorie Taylor Greene

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

— Erica Jong

“It seemed beyond my understanding that a mother and a daughter could not love one another. Parents love their kids, kids love…

— Kimberly Rae Miller

“What an excellent father you have, girls!' said she, when the door was shut. 'Such joys are scarce since the good Lord…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Like every parent, my parents too took a lot of effort to give us the best, and to keep things as normal…

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

“The constant temperature of his mother’s skin kept his body temperature stable. Possibly the constant rise and fall of her breathing helped…

— Jennifer Worth

“Where are Haldad my father, and Haldad my brother? If the king of Doriath fears a friendship between Haleth and those who…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters…

— Valerie June

The law of the [Cub Scout] pack guides the boys to move in the direction of being helpful, friendly, courteous, trustworthy and…

— John C. Maxwell

“O burn the house! You've murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child - you…

— Edward Bond

Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany…

— Sylvia Ann Hewlett

“But she wasn't a wife and mother. And, Joey aside, she didn't want to be one. Her mother had spend every last…

— Deeanne Gist

“may be tempting to dismiss these findings as by-products of midlife rather than the presence of teenagers in the house. But Steinberg’s…

— Anonymous

I am pretty conventional, I was raised by a strict mother who said, 'Be sure to open doors and say please thank…

— Chris Pine

“I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce and then to abandon them,…

— Alice Miller

In hindsight I can see that my love for the arts began by watching my father and his colleagues perform on stage…

— Michael Hyatt

I'm not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

I told my mother-in-law my house is your house. So she sold it.

— Henny Youngman

Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington.

— Claire Tomalin

My dear father! When I remember him, it is always with his arms open wide to love and comfort me.

— Isobel Osbourne Field

My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time.

— Michael Spence

I'm not a goody-two-shoes. I'm just a father with four children.

— Ricky Skaggs

I'm trying to be the best father and take care of my kids.

— Drew Lachey

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long...

— Roald Dahl

Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.

— Ron Franscell

“A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family.”

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother.

— Megan Fox

“They didn't have to be funny — they were father jokes.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Like any good father, I tried to calculate ways I could monetize this ability.”

— Stephen Tobolowsky

Its a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

My father hasn't backed me in any way, and I don't think anybody has backed me.

— Fahadh Faasil

I steadfastly believe that there is no greater love than that between a mother and a child.

— John Carter Cash