Parenting Quotes · Page 457

“People tend to raise the child inside of them rather than the child in front of them.”

— Joe Newman

You know at 14, when you lose your hero - your father - that's why I hold him on such a high pedestal.

— Jason Bonham

The broken love is found onto your friends but not to your real blood mother.

— Daudi Bilingi

“Seeing the smile and happiness on your parents faces,that is the glorious moment of success.”

— Abdel Halim Boudekhana

Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

— Edward Bellamy

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother.

— Jeff Bridges

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

— Dolly Parton

Laziness is the mother of all bad habbits but ultimately she is a MOTHER and we should respect her.

— MJ Korvan

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents…

— Janis Ian

The bond that I shared with my father, the same I have with Mithun Dad. It is not a formal relationship but…

— Madalsa Sharma

My youngest is 26, and so I hardly remember life not being a father, but my wife and I were hands on-parents.

— Timothy B. Schmit

I have never understood why people identify with criminals: even if your father and grandfather were criminal, you have to find a…

— Jasmila Zbanic

Someday I will have to give an account of myself. How would the Father in Heaven judge me if I followed others…

— Anton Bruckner

“What part did she give you?" Zoe asked her mother. "Mary, the mother of God." "Talk about miscasting," Nelia said.”

— Pamela Todd

My father (Danny Thomas) used to tell me there are two kinds of people, the takers and the givers. 'The takers sometimes…

— Marlo Thomas

“But what if we fail' they ask, whispering the dreaded word across the Generation Gap to their parents. 'Don't' they whisper back.…

— William Zinsser

“What is all this talk of elephants and seals?' asked Frog. 'It's nonsense', said the father, 'and yet it's not the child's…

— Russell Hoban

Part of me always felt like the other, the outsider, the observer. My father had two sons with his second wife, who…

— Elif Safak

My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in…

— Daniel H. Pink

My father was the biggest influence on my own parenting because I became the complete opposite to him. He found it very…

— Keith Allen

It is one of those weird social things. Even as parents we say, oh, don't be sad. You know, come here, we'll…

— Pete Docter

My father was an actor. Both of my older brothers are actors. My younger sister is an actress. For me, that's my…

— Johnny Flynn

Having a baby isn't so bad. If you're a female Emperor penguin in the Antarctic. She lays the egg, rolls it over…

— L. M. Boyd

Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or…

— Sal Albanese

“Would that my mother could be author of my fate ...!”

— M.H.Rakib

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

— Peter Ustinov

My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.

— Jessica Alba

There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.

— N.K. Jemisin

Though I am not against a love marriage, if my parents chose a guy for me, I will go for it.

— Hina Khan

I love Western classical music - I grew up on that thanks to my parents who loved it too.

— Shobana

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

— Joely Richardson

Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.

— Donna Tartt

My dad was down the pit and my mother worked in a newsagent.

— Jane McDonald

I don't feel Swedish. In fact, my father tells me to get out of here as soon as I can.

— Lykke Li

For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.

— Kara Swisher

I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.

— Paz de la Huerta

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.

— Eric Hoffer

Both my mother and father worked for everything that they had.

— Evan Ross

I never wished my parents were normal, because they were unique, special and fabulous.

— Nile Rodgers

“But fathers always thought their youngest daughters were rather special”

— Rona Jaffe