Parenting Quotes · Page 495

My mom, for all intents and purposes, was a single parent.

— Estelle

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

— Saoirse Ronan

I love when my parents saybring me my wallet and I'll give you some money.

— Anonymous

I'm sort of a father figure to a lot of these players.

— Doug Pederson

“The father who went off to war was not the one who came home.”

— Kristin Hannah

I can be a nag. And my mother can be a nag. It's a nagging relationship, but we know that it's loving.

— Diana DeGarmo

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

— Paul Johnson

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.

— Eartha Kitt

I saw that [music] reflected in my mother when we listened to these records [of Bob Gordon]. And I felt it too.

— Jon Gordon

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day…

— Lindsay Lohan

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

— David Antin

I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture…

— Sonia Rykiel

Growing up as the youngest daughter to immigrant parents, it was instilled in me from an early age to not be wasteful…

— Konnie Huq

No one has ever seen God.The Only Son,who is truly God and is closet to the Father,has shown us whAt God is…

— God

I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our…

— Jodi Picoult

For me, one of the most flattering things in the world is for parents to write to me saying their children want…

— George Clarke

I feel despised there, for having so little money; also for once having had so much. I never actually had it, of…

— Margaret Atwood

Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educate your child and instill moral…

— Andrew Solomon

May God bless all the Mothers that give of themselves and tend to their household needs before the needs of self. For…

— M S Lowndes

Blue lips, white skin. Lying restless on the floor. Blood is coming from her head, where she earlier shot herself. Her mother…

— Rebecca Busch

“I can't get myself to say what happened next. I cannot cope with even thinking about this let alone living with it."…

— Carolyn Ainscough

Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food…

— Isadora Duncan

Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son…

— Lydia Hoyt Farmer

“not take advantage of a widow or an orphan. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear…

— Jane Austen

Since I was so little with my brother and my parents, football was my life - and it hasn't changed.

— Rodri

I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.

— Victoria Beckham

My mother always told me that inaction is not an option. And neither is going it alone.

— Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

More than three million Americans under age 26 have gained coverage under their parents plans.

— Barack Obama

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

— Plato

I love my mother-in-law and I think I'm a really good one, too.

— Reba McEntire

“No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.”

— Anonymous

“You love being Ruby’s mother, but loving Ruby does not stop you from wanting things for yourself.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.

— John Calvin

A mother's love on you is equal to the meaning of your life.

— Jsudhasettum

If nothing changes, if kids don't get good education and parenting, we'll lose.

— Antonio Rudiger

A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.

— Confucius

Why is it that my parents decide to walk in on a sex scene on every movie I watch?

— Ella

When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.

— Kate Bush

My father had the curved feet, my mother the legs, so I am a bit of both.

— Sylvie Guillem