Parenting Quotes · Page 458

I say parenting is like maths sum. You take one step, and your child takes another.

— Paritoshik Sharma

When I was young, I loved the feeling of escaping to the rocks on a Friday afternoon with my parents.

— Adam Ondra

I give credit of my success to my parents. My father was a poet philosopher.

— Manoj Kumar

My mother did what all great leaders do: She sparked the growth of future leaders.

— Marillyn Hewson

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

— Christian Morgenstern

My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence.

— Jai Rodriguez

Don't claim to be someone's Father when you acting like someone's Son...

— Giz TheShooter

As a father, it has been so rewarding to love my kids into their own unique voices.

— Jimmie Allen

If my mother put on a helmet and shoulder pads and a uniform that wasn't the same as the one I was…

— Bo Jackson

My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a…

— R. T. Rybak

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the…

— Anonymous

I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not;…

— Cardi B

I would actually like to establish myself as an actor first because both my parents are powerful and strong actors so, I…

— Akshara Haasan

I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to…

— Mae Jemison

People didn't seem able to consider that maybe both were true. OK, I was born to white parents, but maybe I had…

— Rachel Dolezal

My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.

— Jami Attenberg

“Kittens were in continual abundance on the farm, there was a kind of kitten currency in the neighborhood, they were bartered for…

— Kate Atkinson

Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through…

— Pindar

“My point is, I would never hurt you or your family.” I raised my chin at him. “If you tried to hurt…

— Ilona Andrews

“If you live long enough as a parent, you discover that you have made mistakes you didn't bother to know about as…

— Alice Munro

David Ben-Gurion was a mythic figure, the founding father of Israel and a modern-day prophet, but he was also a real man…

— Shimon Peres

I'm used to riding horses. My father used to breed horses when I was a child. I grew up in Tipperary, in…

— Kerry Condon

My parents got me a $25 Kent steel-string acoustic guitar when I was around 12. The following Christmas, my parents bought me…

— Alex Lifeson

My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps…

— Idina Menzel

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

— William Allan

The best kind of parent you can be is to lead by example.

— Drew Barrymore

Stacy Keach was marvelous. He looked more like my father than anyone who had ever played him before.

— Jack Hemingway

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

— Robertson Davies

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

— Anonymous

The departing year: my grey hair I needn't hide from parents now gone.

— Seifu

“Mother--that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.”

— T. DeWitt Talmage

I once fisted two babies and then used the corpses as boxing gloves to fight off the grieving parents.

— Zach Braff

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

— Burt Lancaster

My parents and I didn't speak for 10 years. It took a long time to rebuild that relationship.

— Gilbert Baker

My father left school at 14 and became a fitter. He didn't want to be at school.

— Bill Shorten

Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.

— Bruce Feiler

“In those days my mother was given to the exasperating and mysterious habit of having babies.”

— James Baldwin

To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.

— Kelley Armstrong

I grew up in the happiest home - my parents were really adventurous, and I was very lucky.

— Maye Musk