Parenting Quotes · Page 461

My father didn't watch football, and it was my grandad who got me in to it.

— Loris Karius

And if you think I'm conservative, my mother is twice as conservative.

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!

— Steve Winwood

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

“A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.”

— Amy Tan

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

— Richard Dawkins

Believe me, I'm more afraid of my mother than any opponent in the ring.

— Dereck Chisora

It's very important, once you are a parent, that you educate your kid day by day.

— Ana Tijoux

While many parents feel understandably aggrieved at the higher cost of hotels and flights the moment school holidays start, I'm afraid that's…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

What I love about my parents and Jamaican families is that exuberance we have, which I think is where I get my…

— Jodie Turner-Smith

I grew up with a father who didn't wear a watch, and this has permanently marked my relationship with time.

— Alessandro Michele

“But then again, if parents are deliberately choosing to kill their potentially autistic children, then maybe they are not good enough to…

— Thomas D. Taylor

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer.…

— Jermaine Dupri

One of the major demographic shares of people who watch 'Girls' are men in their fifties. Fathers watch it, maybe trying to…

— Peter Scolari

I'm glad my son does not have to witness that the very people that he thought he could ride and die with…

— Christopher Wallace

I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets…

— Shane Koyczan

My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of our challenges at home and abroad,…

— Chelsea Clinton

All that I am, and all that I ever hope to be, I owe it to my Mum. Wishing all caring Mothers…

— Anonymous

“In arranged marriages in Iran, it is customary that after the family of the boy asks the family of the girl for…

— Maziar Bahari

“Maybe if I hadn’t been so hell-bent on not becoming my parents, I could have saved Charlie. Maybe I would have been…

— A.S. King

After my parents' divorce in the early seventies, I grew up with my mother, who wasn't super educated herself. But there were…

— Sal Khan

When I ask people what they think of when they hear the term 'cerebral palsy,' I usually get one of two responses.…

— Maysoon Zayid

“… Your father, for instance, don’t you think he would have done three times as much work if it had not been…

— Anonymous

“It's a mean story, Helen fumed. An absentee father who demands that his children put him at the center of their lives…

— Mark Salzman

To be a visionary parent, we need to keep working on ourselves, becoming forever new and improved.

— Mark Victor Hansen

We did marry in secret and it was several years before we even told our parents that we were married.

— Gyles Brandreth

Sleep is Mother Nature's best effort yet to counter death.

— Matthew Walker

“It doesn't take a man to have a child, it takes a man to raise a child.”

— GonzoBilly

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

— Joel Osteen

It's time for fathers to war for their kids more than the culture wars for your kids.

— Lou Engle

“Take pride in your pain," her mother had always told her. "You are stronger than those who have none.”

— Lois Lowry

“Be careful how you say your own mother’s name; How you articulate your blood.”

— Nkateko Masinga

“A mother knows her children’s weaknesses, even if she sometimes refuses to acknowledge them.”

— Mary Campisi

I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child.

— Ellen DeGeneres

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

— Jodi Picoult

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.

— Tre Cool

A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.

— Edward Abbey

Partners and mothers allow men to get away with too much.

— Lennie James

I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.

— Wes Anderson

Parents do not, indeed, live by bread alone. We feast daily on banquets of our own words.

— Sarah Bird