Parenting Quotes · Page 503

My mother was a professional beauty. She played the vamp for all it was worth.

— Lady Colin Campbell

“Even if I'm following the path my parents set, I need to take my own dreams and beliefs with me.”

— Natsumi Ando

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

— Jodi Picoult

“Courage is my father. Truth is my mother. Joy is my sister. Love is my friend.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I think of my mother constantly. And how she sacrificed her home and car for my freedom.

— Brian Banks

I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.

— Uma Thurman

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am actually completely opposite to my father. You will feel that in 'Mirzya.'

— Harshvardhan Kapoor

I also think there is a wisdom and strength in that generation [of our parents], in terms of getting through difficult times,…

— James Redford

I dunno whether it was to do with my parents - we were working-class - but it was important to me to…

— Ian Rankin

I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for…

— Michael Lindsay-Hogg

It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful…

— Aristotle

Offering unequal leaves just reinforces the longstanding notion that parenting responsibilities aren't equal, and that doesn't help anyone.

— Christine Tsai

That's what the founding fathers intended, that most decisions be made at the state level, not at the federal level.

— Carlos Lopez-Cantera

I feel uncomfortable when I think about my father listening to my records, because I don't want to hurt him.

— John Grant

My parents never discouraged me. There were a couple times when my dad criticized a couple things that I did, but it…

— Jeff Dunham

Things happen in my physical body, in my relationships. I've buried three fathers and a mother. I've had a doctor tell me…

— Tony Robbins

“We are not three gods, and we are not talking about one god with three attitudes, like a man who is a…

— Wm. Paul Young

When I started acting, my parents gave me three rules: I had to stay good in school, stay the kid they always…

— Shailene Woodley

“the behavior of parents, other parties, or both. Also, old videos or photos may be helpful in showing how comfortable and happy…

— Randi Kreger

The Founding Fathers and our fathers are rolling over in their graves as this great country voluntarily abandons its dreams of equal…

— David Limbaugh

Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine…

— William M. Evarts

“Becoming a mother had been many things--often indescribably rewarding, occasionally stupefying, sometimes even terrifying in the intensity of the love she felt…

— Jessica Strawser

“Siddhartha began to understand that it was not happiness and peace that had come to him with his son but, rather, sorrow…

— Hermann Hesse

My mother was my first and strongest offensive line.

— Le'Veon Bell

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

— Julian Fellowes

Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

— Lynne Cheney

For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

— Virginia Woolf

My parents don't love me much. But they have always shown they can die for me.

— Terry Mark

My parents gave me a practical example of what life was about, and I won't forget that.

— Dani Alves

I'll never be a father; unless you got the time it's a crime don't even bother.

— Wycked

“Aha!" Lassiter pointed at the boob tube. "You motherfucker! I knew you were the father!”

— J.R. Ward

“May you grow up kinder than your fathers and less superstitious than your mothers,”

— Austin Chant

My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one.

— Groucho Marx

I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.

— Katherine Heigl

My parents were bookish, very musical, but otherwise uninvolved in the arts or the academic world.

— Lawrence Osborne

I thought a parent's job was to tell their children not to go into acting as a profession!

— Emily Mortimer

Proud of my mother for becoming a wish granter for the make a wish foundation. You inspire me.

— Anonymous

“I have come to realise that discipline is not about rules. Discipline is about respect.”

— Janna Cachola

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

— Norma Shearer