Parenting Quotes · Page 428

A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother.

— William Shakespeare

Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults.

— Harvey Kurtzman

My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.

— Irina Shayk

“He hoped Janie's mother would be more focused on helping Janie than killing him.”

— Taryn Browning

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

— Cormac McCarthy

I was born to a Hindu father and Muslim mother on Christmas day. You can't get more secular than that.

— Nagma

“I wanted to die. Where were my parents to take me in their arms, to reassure me?”

— Marjane Satrapi

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

— Trey Parker

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and…

— Ethel Waters

My parents think I'm bad, but if they saw how half my friends treat their parents, they'd appreciate me more.

— Anonymous

I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.

— Philippe Halsman

My parents know better, what are right and wrong for me, but it's a different matter, I do not understand the truth

— Mak_786

The fact that you carried an embryo to term does not make you a mother any more than it makes you an…

— Norah Vincent

“The bond between a mother and a child weighed nothing on a scale; it took up no room in a test tube.…

— Jodi Picoult

From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand…

— Jodi Picoult

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

— Cory Monteith

Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released. Callings in the Church, as important as they are, by…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“And it totally depresses me, but the ladies eat it up. They love my father's books and they love his cable-knit sweaters…

— Stephanie Perkins

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch…

— Michael Haneke

“No," said Ender. "I don't know about souls. I just know that while we're alive, in these bodies, we can only do…

— Orson Scott Card

“The only other person attending who was close to her age was Father St. Laurent, a devastatingly good-looking Roman Catholic priest who…

— Julia Spencer-Fleming

If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to…

— Dave Barry

“confiteor of an atheist I believe in no god but my Mother and Father who ushered me into this world . I…

— Gerald Lanteigne

Man is afraid, the world is a strange world, and man wants to be secure, safe. In childhood the father protects, the…

— Rajneesh

I am all-giving like my mother and practical like my father.

— Jackie Shroff

“[My father] had a name for the bottom of the sky--'the hem of heaven.”

— Nancy Horan

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

— Aristotle

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.

— Phyllis Diller

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.

— Merle Travis

Everything I am came from my parents. I don't take that much credit for who I am and what I am.

— Mandy Patinkin

Why do you keep calling me 'Billionaire Philip Anschutz?' My mother never called me 'Billionaire.'

— Philip Anschutz

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

— Chinua Achebe

“The greatest thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother.”

— Elaine S. Dalton

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears.

— Francis Bacon

“The man who told my mother that I am dead while alive is indirectly asking for her death.”

— Anthony Ugochukwu O. Aliche

Mom, thank you. Mr. Palmer, my father I never had, thank you for teaching me what it is to be a man.

— Ray Rice

“They called him John Storm: John after his grandfather, but Storm after his father and his mother.”

— John Crowley

As any parent knows, sharing diaper duty sure beats changing them all yourself.

— Brianna Keilar

Mankind can only disappoint mother nature for so long

— Anthony D. Williams

Being a parent means having an understanding and respecting your child's views and opinions.

— Anonymous