Parenting Quotes · Page 480

“Why - what the name - began her father. I thought you went out to get the parsley!”

— Thomas Hardy

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Only mothers can make a child melt in her arms admiring appreciating with hugs and kisses.

— Kishore Bansal

Daughters are supposed to be friends to their mothers in their old age.

— Paullina Simons

People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.

— Carine Roitfeld

I can definitely see why having my parents has helped me get to where I want to go.

— Chloe Madeley

My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.

— Sudha Murty

The history, the root, the strength of my father is the strength we now rest on.

— Carolyn Rodgers

“Because you are created in God's image, you belong to no one, not to me, not to your mother, not even to…

— Shaw J. Dallal

It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth -…

— Michael Hainey

Fathers be good to your daughters, daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers, so mothers be…

— John Mayer

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his…

— Benjamin Franklin

I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I…

— Yvonne Strahovski

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country,…

— George III

“My lord, I cannot thank you enough for what you’ve done for my daughters,” he muttered. Lucien had paid Roland’s debts, however…

— Denise Hampton

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“I decided I would not go to court to have my mother declared incompetent, I would not fight. I put the car…

— Kaylie Jones

A God who draws near out of love, the Holy Father continued, walks with His people, and this walk comes to an…

— Pope Francis

Therefore we have to make effort through well through every corner, media people, education sort of institution, and family, parents, everywhere. It…

— Dalai Lama

It's sad that as crushed Millennials we live in the shadow of our parents, our fathers. We aren't willing to murder our…

— Cody Wilson

I've been able to help my family financially since making my first hit record. I bought my parents a house. My husband…

— Bonnie Tyler

After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed…

— Stephen M. Irwin

Both of my parents were raised in Christian homes, which was great. They instilled in us that God came first and they…

— Mike Fisher

“When my father was 17, he went to Montreal and found these submarine sandwich shops that were really successful, and weren't in…

— Jason Reitman

“I'm the bridge jumping friend parents warned you about.”

— Ross Caligiuri

“A kid is what you feed it, plus from that what can be gathered.”

— Will Advise

My parents always told me to choose my friends very carefully and I learnt to live by that advice.

— Tanushree Dutta

My father showed me so much love. He showed my brother so much love.

— Hope Solo

OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.

— Linus Torvalds

A daughter could be the most reliable relative as far as parents are concerned.

— Chandrababu VS

Children have no reasonable assumption of privacy while they are minors in their parent's home.

— Laura Schlessinger

Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

— Paul Newman

Deadbeat fathers are bad but a deadbeat mother should be cast & stoned.

— Anonymous

My mother was like a backbone for me in my life. She would always push me ahead.

— Asha Parekh

The greatest gift one person can give their children is love.

— Vikrant Parsai

The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.

— Anonymous

“He saw that his mother was dwelling in an alternate time, a more bearable reality.”

— Jhumpa Lahiri

A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

— Alan Garner

I don't want my own life to be solely about preserving my parents' lives.

— Nicole Fosse