Parenting Quotes · Page 473

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

— Mo Rocca

My father's immigrant story is a big part of who I am.

— Tom Suozzi

When you see the commitment my parents exhibited... it was not for fame or fortune.

— Yolanda King

To support my brothers and me, my mother got a job so menial that we never discussed it.

— Eric Braeden

My mother worked at home, making clothes, trying to make some money.

— Carlos Carvalhal

My parents can't always travel with me because my little brother is a world champion on dirt bikes.

— Hailie Deegan

My father was everything to me. Unlike my mother - I didn't have a special affinity with her.

— Giovanna Cau

All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th '…

— George Eliot

My son is an integral part of my life; the fact of life is that parents and children need you; wife doesn't…

— Sonu Nigam

My mother had a wall of degrees in our house, and she would walk me up to the wall and say, 'When…

— Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

I think I said something mean when I was little, and my mother snapped on me. I was just like, 'I'm sorry!'…

— Craig Robinson

“It was a soulless gaze, burning with a wild hatred that shouldn’t be there in anyone who could call themselves a parent.”

— Jess C. Scott

No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

— Margaret Sanger

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from…

— Trevor McDonald

I've mastered this by having, unfortunately, lived with my parents my whole life. When you're supposed to be being quiet, but you…

— Ellie Rowsell

I never thought I had it in me to be an actor. There is so much more to the job than acting.…

— Kalyani Priyadarshan

“When Julius was twenty-five, his mother died of cancer—which Julius grieved over—and shortly afterward his father was swallowed by the bog when…

— Jonas Jonasson

“After a week's worth of failed fairy tales—stories that made my eyelids flutter open and not shut—my father tried telling me stories…

— Monique Truong

“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth,…

— Jack Kerouac

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I…

— Charles Dickens

There are people all around us whose lives are masterpieces of service. One thinks of parents working two or three jobs to…

— James M Strock

“Is there someone with whom you have a broken relationship? A spouse, a parent, a friend? As a follower of Jesus Christ,…

— Haddon W. Robinson

One winter, when I was 12, my older brother Frank (20) said to my father, 'We want you out of the house.…

— Joe Torre

“Peter’s Diary Entry: But my eyes were opened when I saw a mother who loved her child so much that she would…

— Spencer C Demetros

I speak Hindi fluently because my mother speaks only in Hindi and Urdu.

— Esha Gupta

I'm ready to try anything. It's not the length of the role or that I won't play a mother.

— Rekha

My parents let me find my way and that's how they supported me the entire way.

— Channing Tatum

My parents are angels. They've always been encouraging of anything I do. Total support, 100 percent.

— Stella Maxwell

I'm born to be a father. And I've been looking forward to this all my life.

— Heath Ledger

My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother.

— Ronnie Spector

I have more pictures of my children than my father ever looked at me,

— Jim Gaffigan

“And then — holy mother of God — he smiled at her. A knowing, toe-curling, sex-drenched smile.”

— Norah Wilson

My father died when I was three years old and my sister was three months.

— Aisling Bea

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I think my biggest role as a parent is teaching empathy.

— Stephanie Land

My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.

— Elizabeth Holmes

“Life will never be the same again. Life will be better.”

— Charlotte Pearson

I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.

— Gabourey Sidibe

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

— Laurence J. Peter

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

— Chief Joseph