Parenting Quotes · Page 494

Growing up, I'd always visit boutiques with my father on the weekends.

— Antoine Arnault

“Parents are always giving things that are not taken”

— Ally Condie

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry? How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say…

— P!nk

I started on the beach in Santa Barbara with my father when I was six.

— Karch Kiraly

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

— Oscar Wilde

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!

— Spike Milligan

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

— Daniel Defoe

Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because…

— Nicole Ari Parker

[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity…

— Theodore Parker

My rebelliousness in Sierra Leone helped me survive there, and it stayed with me until I moved to the States and realized…

— Michaela DePrince

“My mother says we’re supposed to make mistakes. That’s the way we learn.” Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner.”

— Karen Mueller Coombs

Father God, we just ask You to open Your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and…

— Norma McCorvey

“On this Mother's Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children.…

— Ana Monnar

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a…

— Maya Angelou

The thing that my parents have always taught me is that beauty comes from the inside, and also that beauty stems from…

— Zoe Kravitz

“In my experience the most forceful and aggressive mothers are always the least inspired, the most unmusical of souls, all of them…

— Eleanor Catton

I didn't want my parents to know about 4chan at first because of the adult content. By the time I was 18…

— Christopher Poole

Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down…

— Pam Grier

“Grace to you and peace from  i him  j who is and  k who was and who is to come, and from  l the seven spirits…

— Anonymous

When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly…

— Margaret Mahy

“Why do you butcher your carabao and feed a throng because your son is getting a wife?" Father always blustered to them…

— F. Sionil José

You will meet their children through their eyes. One of the most poignant moments is when I asked each to describe the…

— Ed Gordon

Pictures and reminders fill my office. Samuel Cochran, B. H. Hodges, my parents, my wife, my brother and sisters, my fellow Marines…

— Jim Webb

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.

— Peter Gallagher

People used to say, 'Your mother's always with you.' My mother would say, 'That's right!'

— Leslie Uggams

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.

— Louis Gossett, Jr

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

— June Jordan

My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father.

— Greg Behrendt

By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.

— Mother Teresa

“My mother always says, buy the outfit and the event will come.”

— SK Quinn

My father, the political dissident Jaballa Matar, disappeared from his home in Cairo in March 1990.

— Hisham Matar

My parents didn't have a lot of money, but we never knew that. They really did the best they could.

— Dorothy Hamill

“There isn’t a lot a mother won’t do for her child, Kyra. It’s sort of hardwired into our DNA.”

— Wendy Wax

My proudest moment is my ability to take care of my mother.

— Dawn Staley

I was very lucky to have a father who took me to church.

— Ser'Darius Blain

No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

— Fiona Apple

As a single mother for 10 years, I brought in around $12,000 annually.

— Stephanie Land

I belong to the petit bourgoiusie somehow, because of my parents.

— Gaspar Noe

I like having a good time. It's probably my mother's Brazilian genes in me - party, party.

— Francesca Annis