Parenting Quotes · Page 419

When you leave money in your will, leave it fairly to your parents and family.

— Muhammad

Parents and Adults, STOP demanding from children what you have not yet become!

— Rey Mellomida

Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.

— Andy Van Slyke

Same-sex marriage will lead to "fathers marrying sons."

— Jeremy Irons

“Here I am, just turned fifty, and I forgot that my father isn’t dead yet!”

— David Sedaris

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

One hour with Mother is more than Without her, an age.

— Lokendra Singh

A trial is an instrument by which our Father in heaven makes Christians more holy.

— J. C. Ryle

“God the Father has made everything to depend on faith, so that whosoever has it has all things, and he who has…

— Martin Luther

I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack…

— Hugh Hefner

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking…

— Jodi Picoult

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance…

— Curt Sachs

I find the idea of walking down the aisle and then being handed to the groom by the father very romantic.

— Sushmita Sen

I am a true psychic. In my family it's the norm. My sister and mother are always 'in my head' and say…

— Franny Armstrong

I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didn't…

— Carmen Ejogo

“Sometimes she would whisper the word Mama and see her mother’s face a hundred times in a single afternoon.”

— Markus Zusak

“During his next visit, my father secretly decided that our bathroom needed towel hooks. Using nails that were too long, my father…

— Firoozeh Dumas

This is the meanest thing anyone’s ever done to me,” I said, through my tear-clogged throat. “I want you to know that.”…

— Jennifer Weiner

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck…

— Marv Levy

Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not…

— Jonathan Sacks

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother…

— Jane Austen

“If I were your mother, I would also warn you to beware of buildings that claim to be the houses of God.…

— Joyce Thompson

“We've also evolved the ability to simply 'pay it forward': I help you, somebody else will help me. I remember hearing a…

— Greg Epstein

“May not and ought not the children of these fathers rightly say: "Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean,…

— William Bradford

God's care for us is more watchful and more tender than the care of any human father could possibly be.

— Hannah Whitall Smith

My father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

— Anonymous

My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

— Dan Savage

I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.

— Oprah Winfrey

As a parent you protect your kids as much as possible.

— LeBron James

My parents never pressured us. I didn't even know how good my mom and dad were until someone told us.

— Jrue Holiday

A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

— Pierre Corneille

My mother is from Greece: she comes from Vrahos, a small village in Kastoria.

— Athanasios Orphanides

“In the end, I am the only one who can give my children a happy mother who loves life.”

— Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard

My wife is from Copenhagen and her father has been a huge Liverpool supporter since the early 1960s.

— Aaron Dessner

My mother's mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napping.

— Rita Rudner

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

— Jason Mraz

When my mom was pregnant with me, my parents moved from France to America.

— Rostam Batmanglij

the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.

— Christopher Meloni