Parenting Quotes · Page 470

After my father died, we faced hardship but never asked anybody for help. We were self-sufficient.

— Mamata Banerjee

Parents impose their wishes on children, driving them to the brink.

— Manoj Kumar

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

— Jack Adams

I admire my mother. She raised four kids and worked and had no help.

— Jane Leeves

The toughest breakup I had to go through was losing my father.

— Jordyn Woods

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.

— Ziggy Marley

There's something very bizarre about having a father who has disappeared. It's very hard to articulate.

— Hisham Matar

“Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.”

— Victor Hugo

I would go to college and people would know me from the rave they went to at the weekend. So I would…

— Kano

“To who?" Bex asked. " Rebecca !" her mother snapped. "Sorry." Bex shrugged. "To whom ," she corrected herself, even though I…

— Ally Carter

My mother raised me right - everything from Fleetwood Mac and the Doors to Pink Floyd and so on and so forth.

— Ivan Moody

I am very much interested in getting parents to read to children, and trying to get people mentoring children. If I can…

— Walter Dean Myers

My children did not go through a stage of being rude to their parents. I'm sorry if that sounds incredible.

— Judith Martin

“Human beings are like the screwed-up children of alcoholic parents in that way, picking up the pieces afterward and trying to make…

— Joe Schreiber

Donald Trump is not an immigrant basher. His mother was a legal immigrant. His wife is a legal immigrant. He employs legal…

— Newt Gingrich

Every time I read a list that tells you how you should raise a child I think: either I'm a bad parent…

— Anonymous

“It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things…

— J.M. Barrie

“I stayed to spy on them. I heard my mother moaning, and crying out for Chris. Then she surprised me. “Momma, where…

— V.C. Andrews

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they…

— Mindy Kaling

“But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. And perhaps we are responsible even for…

— Bernhard Schlink

“Cordelia!" She staggered to a stop and slowly turned as her father's voice reverberated around the room. "You just accused your brothers…

— Lorraine Heath

There you are!” he shouted at them. “Father has half the castle turned out looking for you.” “Us?” Hadrian asked. “Yes.” Fanen…

— Michael J. Sullivan

“On a certain level, homeschooling is all about socialization. Whatever the teaching methods used in school or homeschool, it is ultimately the…

— Rachel Gathercole

I went to see my mother the other day, and she told me this story that I'd completely forgotten about how, when…

— James Veitch

“I loved you...I loved you more than all the money your father threw at me.”

— Faye Hall

I cook every day. If I don't cook, they don't eat. Who's going to do it? I'm their mother!

— Jennie Garth

An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I love JFK. My mother had been a worker on his campaign and adored him.

— Tim Matheson

“God's unchangeable commitment assures us His everlasting love and security over us. Great Father.”

— Euginia Herlihy

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

— Chief Joseph

While the godly father and mother spews poison, the baby crying for help.

— Anonymous

You always rebel what your parents want you to listen to.

— Keifer Thompson

I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

— Al Green

I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

— William Steig

We are an imperfect family who have survived the worst thing that can happen to a parent.

— Jason Watkins

“(...) And through it all I thought of my mother and the lives she didn’t get to live.”

— Sam J. Miller

My mother was a housewife, and she had no job throughout her entire life.

— Jim Peebles

“Her mother did not guess that water could be more dangerous when there was less of it.”

— Anna-Marie McLemore

My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

— Ahmet Ertegun

My father was a storekeeper at a factory in west London.

— Ian Gillan