Parenting Quotes · Page 631

“Since i was born, i have realized that; all things that people do in this world are mostly based on the lies…

— Ntambara Sylvestre Owen Berbason

I mean, London has shaped me as a person. My parents are Nigerian so I've had the luxury of blending different cultures…

— MNEK

My father set a strict regimen for me. He insisted that I learn to play many musical instruments before I choose one.

— Vidyasagar

Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I've never met a parent who didn't want their kid to be a…

— Jessi Klein

Mother, why can I not feel as I should... must? Once false, I must not be again. Take out the thorn. -Pocahontas

— Pocahontas

Harry! I'd almost forgotten you were here, standing on the bones of my father. I'd introduce you, but rumor has it you're…

— Lord Voldemort

I'm forever grateful to have had the opportunity to prove myself to my dad. After I took over the diner, the look…

— George Pelecanos

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces…

— Philip Pullman

All of my friends went to college, and I got a job at Circle Pizza, where I worked for 24 hours. I…

— Sarah Paulson

I hang out with my dad mostly, my dad was in the military. He's at that age now where his war stories…

— Dave Attell

I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then…

— Steven Spielberg

My parents always put more of an emphasis on who I was as opposed to what I achieved. They were never like,…

— Emma Stone

My parents, God bless 'em, were very supportive of me and my decision to pursue acting. Their dream for me and my…

— Michael Ealy

With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until…

— Brooklyn Decker

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is…

— Michael Jackson

“ROM1.30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,  ROM1.31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection,…

— Anonymous

I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and…

— Nicki Minaj

I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders,…

— Karisma Kapoor

I inherited my ability from both my parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not making it.

— Anonymous

“Children are better off having a parent who works into the night in a job they love than a parent who works…

— Simon Sinek

My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and…

— Laura Linney

It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this…

— Pliny the Elder

Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.

— Anonymous

I'm a real martial artist, my father always taught me that some way I have to train every day, no matter what…

— Lyoto Machida

“When we die our argument dies with us. The argument we never articulated well enough, that we were failed by our parents,…

— Stephen Elliott

Sometimes, it's hard for parents to talk to their children. It's all about learning that there are other ways to communicate, like…

— Tabitha Brown

When I get a letter that says, 'I'm 18 and have always been attracted to older men,' then it usually means that…

— Lorne Greene

At the age of four I lost my parents and my uncle chose to leave me in an orphanage. Due a skin…

— Michaela DePrince

Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman,…

— Ashley Montagu

Every creature and plant is part of her (mother nature's) amazing interconnected garden... The whole world is a garden.

— Costa Georgiadis

“A young man fools himself into believing he no longer needs to be held in his mother's arms or to hear the…

— Anonymous

I started working when I was three years old and was basically known before I knew who my own name was. My…

— Corey Feldman

Being raised, I think, in a household where your parents really taught you never to let people see you sweatin' - that's…

— Malcolm Brogdon

The hijacking of an American jet in Athens looms larger in our concern than the parent who kills a child, even though…

— Gavin de Becker

I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise…

— Sabrina Carpenter

My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born. He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would ask…

— Tiger Woods

“Your mother did seem like cold, unfeeling viper determined to destroy world. . . . I like that in woman.”

— G.A. Aiken

I, of course, owe everything to my mother, because my father died when I was only nine days of age; and the…

— Heber J. Grant

Success is just like a beautiful lover it will leave us at any time, But failure is like a mother it will…

— Aaree

My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder,…

— Jonny Lang