Parenting Quotes · Page 7

My father was Australian.

— Jamey Sheridan

I enjoy fatherhood.

— Kevin Dillon

Wise people, my parents.

— Dan Levy

I adored my father.

— Nancy Wake

I was a perfect mother.

— Maye Musk

My mother is a beauty.

— Mary-Louise Parker

I'm a very lucky mother.

— Ruth Westheimer

My parents were teachers.

— Katrina Adams

Adversity is the mother of progress.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Me and my mother, we both love Eddie Murphy.

— Giannis Antetokounmpo

My father is the oldest of seven boys.

— Dr. Dre

I'm a father figure, just not to my kids.

— Nikhil Saluja

My mother says I have boring percussion.

— Stephin Merritt

I dont give a lovely mother fuck as nigga

— Lil Wayne

I am learning cooking... all my mother's recipes.

— Divya Dutta

My most defining moment was the death of my mother.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.

— Rosalind Russell

Dear parents, teach your children to pray. Pray with them.

— Pope Francis

“You don't know a father's weight until it's lifted.”

— John Green

“She's right, of course. My mother usually is. She's a librarian.”

— Heather Vogel Frederick

My father was on the Alcoholics Anonymous wishlist. My mother was on... parole. And lithium.

— Christopher Titus

What God is to the world, parents are to their children.

— Philo

A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take.

— Gaspard Mermillod

Definitely the most important thing in my life is being a father.

— Ben Miller

I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.” “I thought your mother was dead.” “She is.” “You have a…

— J.R. Ward

I would never recommend my novel as a parenting guide. But we happen to live at a very hectic and hurried time,…

— J. K. Rowling

Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.

— Susan L. Taylor

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

— Alice Walker

You know, we've got to be able to understand that in order to curb their behavior, we've got to be accountable as…

— Jo Frost

In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my…

— Sophie Calle

I had so much anger. So much anger. Particularly towards my mother. I was a really, really angry person, and it was…

— Goldie

The only I would say is a little different is when I know my parents are in the audience. That's never going…

— Dar Williams

“The girls were taught by their mothers and grandmothers to look seriously upon life, to shun the frivolous, and to avoid giggling.…

— Frank Bird Linderman

Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would…

— Eric McCormack

“My mother once made a quilt from dozens of pairs of second- and third- and fourth- hand blue jeans that she bought…

— Sherman Alexie

No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who…

— Silvan Shalom

A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no…

— Simon Sinek

The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town.…

— Shmuel Yosef Agnon

“Something changed then. I saw my life in scale: it was just my life. It was not momentous, and only now did…

— Melissa Banks

I remember my father playing me Same Situation when I was a nipper, and saying how nobody since has done melodies as…

— Laura Marling