Parenting Quotes · Page 430

“I began my life as a character in my father's films.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

For men, the Right Time to become a parent seems to be any time after reaching the age of consent.

— Dawn Foster

My brother wasn't loved by my mother in the same way that I was.

— Sean Hannity

“Boys let your parents pay for dinner when you all go out.”

— Mindy Kaling

My mom called me a spoiled brat...well mother, that's what happens when you buy your child's love.

— Anonymous

Keep telling yourself and others there are no supermoms, there are only wonderful mothers.

— Jean Marzollo

Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.

— Eugene Field

I announced to my mother one day when I was 8 that I wanted to be a serious actress.

— Meredith Salenger

I went to a commune with my parents when I was a kid and everyone else got given cool spirit animals like…

— Finn Andrews

My true satisfaction came when my parents told me that someone had seen me on TV and congratulated them.

— Kirti Kulhari

By the time I was 14, I had become self-motivated. Whatever raced inside me was more demanding than any pressure applied by…

— Bill Bradley

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

— Gertrude Stein

My grandmother I admired even more [than mother]. She was an Irish lady and a very kind-hearted person. She had a lot…

— Edmund Hillary

Like any working mother, I have to balance and manage my time very carefully. My children and husband come first, of course,…

— Andrea Davis Pinkney

Twitter is the only place where you can really express your self withouy your parents seeing all of your bad words.

— Keyzee

“To choose anything besides God is to be deceived by the “Father of Lies” who promises happiness but delivers death.”

— Lorilyn Roberts

Father I am waiting, I need to hear from You, to know that You're approving, of what I say and do, cause…

— Jason Upton

“Father, we come to You, Father, in the name of the Father, Father we come to You, Father, Father, just, just, Father,…

— Tim Hawkins

“Deming and his mother loved everything bagels, the sheer balls of it, the New York audacity that a bagel could proclaim to…

— Lisa Ko

There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them…

— Sigmund Freud

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was…

— Kenneth G. Wilson

I have a wonderful family. My father is a brilliant father, and my mother a brilliant person who had mental-health issues, but…

— Jo Johnson

My father worked as an upholsterer at home and one day this client showed up to get his car seats fixed, and…

— Gilbert Burns

“King claims to be half-black, born to a black father and white mother. However, a closer examination of King’s family tree by…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

The toughest challenges I've faced are the deaths of my mother and Stephen Gately.

— Ronan Keating

I owe my success to Allah and my parents who have sacrificed so much to get me where I am.

— Javed Ali

I've been surrounded by strong, hardworking women like my mother all my life.

— Kevin de Leon

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

My mother, God bless her, forced me to take touch typing when I was 16.

— Paul Allen

Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

— Anonymous

If you do not honor your parents, your children will not honor you.

— Vikrant Parsai

Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.

— Margaret Truman

I didn't have a father when I was growing up, and I vowed to be there with my kids.

— Kenyon Martin

Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!

— Kenneth More

Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

— Brennan Manning

Sick kids almost never go to their father's side of the bed to announce they're going to barf.

— Julie Ann Barnhill

My parents never let the color of our skin be an excuse for why we did not succeed.

— Bill Duke

I want to share music that we grew up with for this generation, the music my parents shared with me.

— John Gourley

“Parthenogenesis means never having your mother tell you to stop doing that or you'll go blind.”

— Seanan McGuire

A child's job is to test her boundaries, a parent's is to see that she survives the test.

— Roger McDonald