Parenting Quotes · Page 509

“Watching us, our father seemed to age another ten years.”

— Anonymous

“No mother’s nightmarish valley is so dark that Jesus cannot bear her burdens the whole way through.”

— Gloria Furman

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

— Philip Levine

I have played mother many times in south films. And I really have no problem with it.

— Priyamani

“... he paraphrased his father's favourite saint, Augustine: Lord, make my wife virtuous, but not yet.”

— Zin Murphy

To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.

— Kapil Sibal

My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.

— Heather Brooke

Good parents have unconditional love for their children.

— Leslyn Lewis

So much hate towards young mothers. Your age has nothing to do with the quality of love you give to your child.

— Anonymous

“You can be broken, or broken open. That choice is yours. p 146 about dealing with the loss of her mother”

— Erica Bauermeister

I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted…

— Gael Garcia Bernal

My best teacher was my mother. She was a diplomats wife living in the Arab world in the 70s and 80s who…

— Katty Kay

Working mothers are just as likely to want to conform to a standard of perfection and just as likely to suffer from…

— Melinda M Marshall

The first secret to loving others is to immerse yourself in a love relationship with God the Father, God the Son, and…

— Anne Graham Lotz

I've always been interested in the rest of the world. My family is very eccentric; my parents have always been very supportive…

— Lynsey Addario

Sometimes being a parent means shutting off your child's Xbox before they beat you in multi-player mode.

— Anonymous

“Care and concern imply another aspect of love; that of responsibility. Today responsibility is often meant to denote duty, something imposed upon…

— Erich Fromm

“But self-knowledge cannot be imposed, understanding cannot be compelled; and if this is a vital problem to you and me, to the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

My dream was to become a footballer. I started loving football so much that I followed my dad wherever he went and…

— Miralem Pjanic

“I have a soft spot for kids. She started whisper-singing along with me. Her words against my chest. To the pony, I…

— Debra Anastasia

When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question…

— Mindy Kaling

“In the shop, breathing the scent of dusty grease and oil; in the old house, staring into the living room where Dad…

— Julene Bair

“All this is probably for nothing,' she [her mother] said once we'd hatched the plan. 'Most likely I'll flunk out anyway.' To…

— Cheryl Strayed

My parents were adherents of the Baha'i faith, which is sort of, I can't think of the best way to describe it,…

— Lydia Polgreen

Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

— Alex Faickney Osborn

Every mother thinks that their child is the most beautiful, but only my mom is right ;)

— Anonymous

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played

— Mick Taylor

I'm grateful my son was - as any mother would say, I had a very good son.

— Afeni Shakur

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Some people were born just so they could be buried; his mother was like that, and he’d always”

— Donald Ray Pollock

I think everyone should be a parent at some point in life.

— Hiten Tejwani

To how many is the death of the beloved the parent of faith!

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Mental illness and depression are the reason why I no longer have a father.

— Caroline Calloway

Parent:what did you learn today?student:appareny not enough!we have to go back tomorowtl

— Ayryal Westley

Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

— Geri Halliwell

My parents were athletes; they met at a track meet: they were runners.

— Scott Speedman

I never had holidays when I was a kid, because my parents couldn't afford them.

— Monica Galetti

“What you inherit from your father must first be earned before it's yours.”

— Goethe

Even some men came into my life, my father is still number one man here in my heart.

— Innah Delos Angeles