Parenting Quotes · Page 460

“The most frightening monsters are monsters’ mothers. Just ask Beowulf.”

— William Ritter

The thought that my mother would suddenly be a foreigner would upset me very much.

— Tony Benn

I used to think that only a mother could provide unconditional love and make sacrifices.

— Amala Paul

My mother had taught me that the only thing you could depend on was your faith, and I had that.

— Ruby Bridges

No human being, religion, nation, and sect can deny respect to mother.

— Shehbaz Sharif

My father taught me how to draw horses - for this I shall be eternally grateful.

— Alexa Chung

My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.

— Jessica Hahn

I was happy to be in England, because my mother had always loved the royals, and so do I.

— Gordon Lightfoot

I have a really beautiful mother. She is close to 60, and to this day doesn't wear a speck of make up…

— Julianne Nicholson

My mother and sisters cooked Italian food, and I never heard of half of the dishes you see in these Italian restaurants.…

— Dennis Farina

I used to be a striker for my school, but my father felt cricket had more scope. I grew up admiring Sachin…

— Shreyas Iyer

Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy…

— Jill Lepore

Johnny's mother had three children. The first child was named April. The second child was named May. What was the third child's…

— Singkit

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing…

— Elizabeth Taylor

I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.

— Missy Peregrym

My parents did give me a lot of books - biographies of Marie Curie - and I did read them, because I…

— Celeste Ng

“Dreams are what keep a man going, William, and already your father was dreaming empire. But looking at him on the day…

— Daniel Wallace

“Part of me wished that my birth family could have been there too, but it would have been too hard for my…

— Zara Phillips

My father tried to get me to be around gay people a lot when I was young. He owned a gay bookstore…

— Margaret Cho

In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no…

— Bill Cosby

Death of the Father would deprive literature of many of its pleasures. If there is no longer a Father, why tell stories?…

— Roland Barthes

The prescience of the founding fathers continues to astonish me. They were freedom fighters. They made America. They gave us this magical…

— Andy Dunn

I read an article some years back in which Emma Thompson demeaned my mother's acting ability. My mother would be the first…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

“The mother smiled at his earnestness - smiled without the least misgiving; for, to her apprehension, the youth was still a boy,…

— E.D.E.N. Southworth

Parents teach us how to care, love and respect, remember all this thing because you need it.

— Mitch Alapan

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!

— Philip Roth

When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.

— Rumi

I think God gives us all that in his Word because he's a loving Father.

— Jennifer Rothschild

Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.

— Nonito Donaire

My father really put that in my head that defense is one of the key things in basketball.

— Andrew Wiggins

My mother had sent my picture for a TV contest seeking anchors, and I won.

— Parvathy

[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.

— Fannie Hurst

My mother taught me everything I know; how to speak properly, posture, enunciation.

— Jonathan Krohn

I'm mostly retired. Now I'm a mother with a really noisy, difficult house to maintain!

— Mia Sara

“I suggest that it never helps anyone to tell a mother that her baby is ugly.”

— William H. Patterson Jr

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.

— Jerry B. Jenkins

My parents worry all the time because I trust people very easily.

— Deepika Padukone

To a child's ear, 'mother' is magic in any language.

— Arlene Benedict

When your parents leave you home alone ... Well, its time toteach the neighbor what good music is.

— Anonymous

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

— Rosalind Wiseman