Parenting Quotes · Page 493

A son has no greater duty, no higher good, than serving his parents.

— Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.

— Emily Dickinson

Mom, can i... go ask your dad.dad, can i... go ask your mother. WTF.

— Anonymous

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.

— Anonymous

“A feeling that you waited to be scold first, before you adhere to your parents.”

— Roque Cole

Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.

— Larry Watson

My parents once caught me conducting Beethoven's 'Fifth Symphony.'

— Walker Hayes

I don't think I've ever come to terms with not having had a father around, and that's why I made so many…

— Amanda Eliasch

The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representing herself to her as a model…

— Anonymous

“escape her own father as well. Seizing the moment, she springs Rosaleen from jail, and the two set out across South”

— Sue Monk Kidd

I would be the first to admit that I have incredibly high, ambitious standards for my life and my career, and I've…

— Mindy Kaling

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of…

— David Rockefeller

Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from…

— Joyce Johnson

Every time I step onto the field, I think of my parents. It's such an honor to represent them and my family.

— Karen Bardsley

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and…

— Barbara Holland

My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I…

— Helen Gurley Brown

I know how lucky I am. I never take it for granted. In this country [USA], anything can happen - anybody can…

— Guy Fieri

After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I am going to share with you the very essential (yet very simple) philosophies, strategies, tactics, techniques, tips, and tricks that you…

— Yohai Reuben

“I stood there for a moment, studying each of us, taking in Kirstens's smile, Whitney's haunting gaze, the way my mother cocked…

— Sarah Dessen

One of the most effective strategies to make your child more self-control is the weekly giving of allowance or pocket money as…

— Terrie Moffitt

Cultural expectations shade and color the images that parents-to-be form. The baby product ads, showing a woman serenely holding her child, looking…

— Ellen Galinsky

I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern'…

— Pat Conroy

To breed up the son to common sense is evermore the parent's least expense.

— John Dryden

“As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.”

— Richard Llewellyn

It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.

— Rosanna Arquette

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

— Khaled Hosseini

Do remember to pick your battles when you start parenting your stepchildren.

— Emily V. Gordon

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

— Dan Aykroyd

I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.

— John Green

You were born at home, but when your mother saw you she went to the hospital.

— Anonymous

A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.

— Irving Bacheller

I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.

— Alan King

“When the gardeners are good, the flower will bloom.”

— Amish Tripathi

I'm still trying to figure out how to have an adult relationship with my parents.

— Kumail Nanjiani

When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility.

— Shannon Woodward

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

— Doris Lessing

Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

— Anonymous

Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy

— Barbara Walters