Parenting Quotes · Page 447

“Our Mother feedeth thus our little life, That we may in turn feed her with our death”

— James Thomson

“Your mother doesn’t make mistakes.” I hear her blow out the smoke. “Baby, I know what I’m doing.”

— Holly Black

Mwalimu Julius Nyerere was a father to his family. To Tanzania he was a guardian of a dream.

— Enock Maregesi

No more excuses. I can't blame anything on my parents. I'm responsible for my mistakes and my choices.

— Brad Pitt

My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics.

— Natalie Massenet

So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven, Visit her face' too roughly.

— William Shakespeare

It's natural to want to rebel against what your parents do.

— Aimee Osbourne

“Della had recently remarried and promised my mother that she and her new husband”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an…

— Kurt Cobain

I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well, obviously, because my mom and my dad…

— Jenna Bush

George Washington, who said to his father, Dad, if I never tell I lie, how am I ever gonna become President? Never…

— Red Buttons

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a…

— Maya Lin

“Her mother admonished through closed lips, the sound a mother can make mean anything from "pick up your socks" to "we are…

— Thomm Quackenbush

I grew up in my father's laboratory and played beneath the chemical benches until I was tall enough to play on them.

— Hope Jahren

Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

My parents really pushed me to excel in school. Education was always important to them, so it was important to me.

— Sunny Hostin

Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child… Leave his sensibilities, his emotions,…

— D. H. Lawrence

Recognizing that family self-sufficiency is a false myth, we also need to acknowledge that all today's families need help in raising children.…

— Kenneth Keniston

“Even people who no longer "believe in God" or participate in the institutional structure of patriarchal religion still may not be free…

— Carol P. Christ

It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed…

— Joyce Meyer

We stand against fate, as children stand up against the wall in their father's house, and notch their height from year to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor,…

— James Collins

My mother has stories of leaving me in the bath as small kid, like a 3-year-old, and there being mirrors on the…

— Allison Tolman

“There were several methods by which the Indians obtained eagle feathers. Some tribes dug a pit in the ground in the areas…

— W. Ben Hunt

Friends are people who knows you more than your mother

— Cath Chatto

A girl asked me u have much attitude I told calmly ur father told me to maintain it in a positive way!

— Abhilash

I was very lucky, my parents were very encouraging, and both my grandmothers. They had exquisite taste.

— David Linley

Who I am as a father is far more important to me than the public perception.

— Bruce Willis

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.

— Anonymous

My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.

— Chevy Chase

“We need more child abuse laws, these kids have been abusing us parents long enough.”

— Foort Lawrence Foort

“Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid.”

— Carolyn Byers Ruch

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

— Mo Rocca

When you see the commitment my parents exhibited... it was not for fame or fortune.

— Yolanda King

My father's immigrant story is a big part of who I am.

— Tom Suozzi

You know what's great about having an imaginary girlfriend? Imaginary mother-in-law!

— Anonymous

I went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys.

— Jodie Whittaker

I think the best thing somebody ever did to me was my mother opening her legs and squirting me out.

— Morgan Freeman

Parents need their children as much as children need their parents.

— Paul Carvel

A mother's love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

— Tyler Perry