Parenting Quotes · Page 432

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

— Michael C. Hall

I've always been opinionated, unfortunately, to my mother's disappointment.

— Nina Garcia

I'm really hoping that I can make my parents proud someday and I can't wait for that day to come.

— Anonymous

My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.

— Carol Burnett

I think I would make a good father. I'd be a disciplinarian.

— Roddy Llewellyn

Mother is not a title. Mother is a verb. It is not who you are. It's what you do.

— Shonda Rhimes

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

— Robert Bloch

Dont forget fathers. They are important too, because your father is the first man you ever loved.

— Anonymous

I think my parents saw that acting ultimately made me happy, even though it was a rough ride for a little bit.…

— Alexandra Daddario

We preserve the legacy of my father through an education approach. We award scholarships. We do classes at schools about my father's…

— Shannon Lee

I've got a lot of back-up because my father was a Catholic, my mother was a Protestant, I was educated by Jews…

— Michael Caine

The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the…

— Benjamin Franklin

As parents, we have kids who reflect back to us our addiction to devices, and we have all sorts of worries about…

— Franklin Foer

The culture looms much larger than you do as a parent, and one can hardly rely on the culture to impart the…

— Rumaan Alam

So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.

— Uma Thurman

Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.…

— Bible

“I have always been a teller of stories. When I was a young girl, my mother carried me out of a grocery…

— Carmen Maria Machado

“There is no better way to crush someone’s self-confidence than to tell this person that her / his choice was wrong, and…

— Lukasz Laniecki

“It’s not their (parents’) job to prevent their children from making mistakes, because mistakes are a normal part of our lives. It’s…

— Lukasz Laniecki

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a…

— Bill Cosby

“A few days ago I was at a private ball given by Mr Ashburnham. As my mother never goes out she entrusted…

— Jane Austen

'You claim to be the man, you want me for a lover, So you can do my girlfriends and my sister and…

— Dres

“Fatigue is epidemic among women in general, and mothers in particular. Mothers talk about sleep the way someone who is starving talks…

— Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Ph.D

Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents.

— Mathew Baynton

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

— Mason Cooley

Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.

— Nick Cave

It never goes away, the death of a parent when you're a kid.

— David Morrissey

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.~

— Anonymous

Really, the F word in a song - it should be the least of the worries of parents these days.

— Enrique Iglesias

Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.

— Oswald Chambers

“Haven’t I been a good father?” he asked Joseph. “I always”

— Philip Carlo

“Take care of your father," he said. "There aren't many people like him around anymore.”

— Chaim Potok

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

“I’m not cock-blocking for kicks and giggles. The mother ship called.”

— J.R. Ward

I'm very close to my mother, but not a single other person in my family.

— Alexis Stewart

I told my parents about my musical dreams. They let me try my luck.

— Ankit Tiwari

My father passed away in 2002, but yes, we were pretty close. I loved him a lot.

— T.I

Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

— John 14:6

A father is someone who can't get on the phone, in the bathroom or out of debt.

— John Walter Bratton