Parenting Quotes · Page 483

My mother was a terrible narcissist and I could well have turned out like her.

— Lady Colin Campbell

“the anointing Father, the anointed Son, and the unction, which is the Spirit.”

— The Church Fathers

My father was a fighter. My grandfather was a fighter. It's just in my blood.

— Dustin Poirier

My mother is from Chennai, and I have a lot of relatives here.

— Vivek Oberoi

I often find that the best parents are the ones without children.

— Lisa Vanderpump

For years I thought my father was a hunchback. Turns out he didn't know suspenders were adjustable.

— Bill Kelly

My mother was a working woman, and I was alone a lot. So I wanted to be a stay-at-home mom.

— Donna Karan

Y0u SaIId YoU l0vE Me BuT iT wAsNt TrUe So GuEsS wHaT mOtHeR fUcKeR I PlAyEd YoU tOo..

— N3lly M3diina

“But I am never really without you, You're on my computer, in my briefcase, at my desk, around my neck and on…

— Pamela Hall

Fathers need to be tough and tender...you be tough for your family, be tender with your family. You protect them, and you…

— Mark Driscoll

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents…

— Russell M. Nelson

“My father believes with his entire soul that the meek shall inherit the earth. My children will inherit the earth but they…

— Allan Dare Pearce

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance,…

— Michel de Montaigne

All I ever wanted out of my life was to buy my mother a house. By 1995, I have achieved all I…

— Mr. T

Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children's lives. To her way of thinking, parenting came under the general heading of…

— Charles J. Shields

Where I grew up, fathers would have bets on whose kids were the toughest and we were put together in the garden…

— Joey Barton

“The mysterious bond of mother and child—so strong on this planet—was not a mystery to me any longer. There was no bond…

— Stephenie Meyer

If in the earlier part of the century, middle-class children suffered from overattentive mothers, from being "mother's only accomplishment," today's children may…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

“Father once told me that would-be lovers were similar to mountains. Two peaks, wonderfully akin and compatible in every way, may rise…

— John Shors

What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“We realized that the version of the world [our parents] rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“At the supreme moment of victory they cheered their Father Abraham, the man who, after a shaky start in office, learned how…

— James L. Swanson

And as husbands and fathers and brothers, we have to step up because every girl's life matters, every daughter deserves the same…

— Barack Obama

My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.

— Rose Kennedy

The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.

— James Whistler

I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!!

— Eoin Colfer

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

— Rita Rudner

I always feel it's not a parent's role to either allow or to deny, but merely to guide.

— David Draiman

I'd get demolitions experts to rig mother to implode like a skyscraper.

— Doug Stanhope

My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.

— Danny Aiello

You've got to talk to your kids as both a parent and a friend.

— Craig Robinson

My protagonists are my mother's voice and the mind I had when I was thirteen.

— Harold Brodkey

“Isn’t it written into the Parent Charter that they don’t have to approve of everything I do”

— Lia Peele

“We met Dr. Hall in such very deep mourning that either his wife, his mother or himself must be dead”

— Jane Austen

The best thing a parent can do for a child is to love his or her spouse.

— Zig Ziglar

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'

— Chris Pine

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

— Judy Blume

My father, he made chili; that was probably his favorite dish to make.

— John Carter Cash

I never hide my children to the public because I am their mother; I just hide my marital status at all.

— Diana Yan Manan