Parenting Quotes · Page 609

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

— Andrew Solomon

The interesting thing for me is to put together all my influences and all my experiences I got through my traveling with…

— Rokia Traore

there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by…

— Margaret Fuller

When I was 15 year old, my father always told me do a drink not always and don't drink to much, the…

— Tottiringu

I never heard my father telling my mother that he loved her. And my mother never told me she loved me, either.

— Park Yeon-mi

My father, Kali Gannguli, is an arranger, composer and accordion player who has worked with Salilda whose songs I had grown up…

— Jeet Gannguli

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it?…

— Michael Jordan

Within the family unit, you have people you grew up with who are supposed to be your brother, father, or your mother…

— Taika Waititi

Some of these kids are spending more time with the coaches than they are with their parents. The coach is supposed to…

— Ray Lewis

I don't even think I was quite a year old. My mother was maybe seven months pregnant with my little brother. I…

— Ernest Cline

My father was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, which had a hospital where they brought casualties straight from the…

— Annie Leibovitz

My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders…

— Jodi Picoult

There were nine children in my fathers family and eight in my mothers. My grandparents did the best with what they had.…

— Cheryl Ladd

“She's my retirement gift, the platinum watch for being a mother." " This fortunate position - the one you couldn't apply for…

— Roxana Robinson

“Applying parents values back to them allot of the time is like trying to pay back a guy who is a counterfeiter…

— Stefan Molyneux

I think I couldn't balance my marriage and my mother's deteriorating health. I realized it was unfair to my husband to have…

— Sanam Saeed

“It’s the Lord’s space and the Lord’s worlds in space, Father. We must not try to take our cathedrals with us, when…

— Ray Bradbury

I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all…

— Peter Fonda

I talk to my parents everyday and every move that I make, every endorsement that I do, every film that I do…

— Deepika Padukone

Hardworking parents across our nation want their children to grow up in safe, strong communities, so that they can reach their full…

— Katie Britt

The fact that my mother was on television every week while I was young was occasionally awkward, and often frustrating.

— Anonymous

I was 2 when my parents - actress Connie Stevens and singer Eddie Fisher - divorced. I was too young to experience…

— Joely Fisher

My parents' generation grew up high on the Arab nationalism that Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser brandished in the 1950s.

— Mona Eltahawy

Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.

— Frank Pittman

I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly…

— Duane Chapman

My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in…

— Kangna Ranaut

“intentions don’t matter in parenting. Kids don’t understand what you mean. They understand what you do.”

— Lisa Gardner

This isn't your world. It's your parents. Your world is still out there, waiting to be discovered. Always remember that.

— Carroll Bryant

My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.

— Polly Berrien Berends

It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I…

— Albert Schweitzer

“I have two choices: attend my sister's dinner party or tie a plastic sack around my mother's head until she runs out…

— Alex Adams

“He’s [Eli's] a lot like his father, Cyrus. He’s big and he’s strong and basically has an entire army of scary men…

— Katie McGarry

“Your mother loved you. Do you understand? She loved you. She still loves you. She wanted you to be safe.”

— Lauren Oliver

I'm against the partial-birth abortion, but you've got to have an exception for the life of the mother and the health of…

— John F. Kerry

“A guy like Franz could talk smack all day about my Afro, my lack of brains, my mother, her alleged lack of…

— Marcus Samuelsson

“Each one of us has hated his or her parents at some point in early life … how quickly we turn around…

— Sandeep Sahajpal

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

— Chris Hughes

I feel fortunate to have a huge family that is beyond race, creed, culture, and have a Father who shepherds us all.…

— Lecrae

My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable.

— Leila Slimani

“Most of the best programmers I know are also very fluent in their mother's tongue, and typically in other languages as well.”

— Kevlin Henney