Parenting Quotes · Page 452

I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.

— Lisa Vanderpump

My father was a fighter. My grandfather was a fighter. It's just in my blood.

— Dustin Poirier

“the anointing Father, the anointed Son, and the unction, which is the Spirit.”

— The Church Fathers

My mother was a terrible narcissist and I could well have turned out like her.

— Lady Colin Campbell

Y0u SaIId YoU l0vE Me BuT iT wAsNt TrUe So GuEsS wHaT mOtHeR fUcKeR I PlAyEd YoU tOo..

— N3lly M3diina

My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.

— Donna Karan

The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.

— James Whistler

I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!!

— Eoin Colfer

Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely,…

— John Travolta

My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes…

— Arthur Golden

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.

— Margaret Cho

When my body, my energy is low, it's hard for me to be a good husband, hard for me to be a…

— Trip Lee

My first recollection of performing was shortly after my parents split up, so the logical conclusion to draw is that that affected…

— Lee Mack

Far too many black men who praise their own mother feel less accounted to the mothers of their own children.

— Patricia Hill Collins

I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for…

— Salma Hayek

My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade…

— Robert Harris

“IRREPLACEABLE My six-year-old grandson called his mother from his friend Charlie s house and confessed he had broken a lamp when he…

— Anonymous

“One day a boy asked his father, “What is the value of this life?” Instead of answering, the father told his son,…

— Raymond D. Longoria Jr

“Some mothers seem to have the capacity and energy to make their children's clothes, bake, give piano lessons, go to Relief Society,…

— Marvin J. Ashton

“What would we do without our elders? Grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles? They're the libraries and archives of our lives and society. Librarians…

— Kyle Cassidy

“There wasn’t an Oclander woman alive who would obediently accept her father choosing a husband for her. While she would tolerate his…

— Vivienne Savage

“My American adolescence was filled with tales of woe like this, all of them proof of what my mother said, that we…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

I think the biggest reason I was able to express myself and not be intimidated was by not having a mother. For…

— Madonna Ciccone

“This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the…

— Amy Tan

My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.

— Rose Kennedy

My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.

— Danny Aiello

I'd get demolitions experts to rig mother to implode like a skyscraper.

— Doug Stanhope

I always feel it's not a parent's role to either allow or to deny, but merely to guide.

— David Draiman

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

— Rita Rudner

“We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his wife, his mother or himself must be dead”

— Jane Austen

My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.

— Harold Brodkey

“Isn’t it written into the Parent Charter that they don’t have to approve of everything I do”

— Lia Peele

The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.

— Zig Ziglar

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

— Chris Pine

You've got to talk to your kids as both a parent and a friend.

— Craig Robinson

My father, he made chili; that was probably his favorite dish to make.

— John Carter Cash

I never hide my children to the public because I am their mother; I just hide my marital status at all.

— Diana Yan Manan

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

— Judy Blume

Young people can change and grow. Every parent knows that.

— Greg Boyle

“My own father could not love me. Why would you if not for gold?”

— George R.R. Martin