Parenting Quotes · Page 826

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a…

— Debbie Gibson

There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is…

— Richard Louv

Having a father as a football and a baseball coach, I grew up around college baseball players, college football players, like, I…

— Jessica Mendoza

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no…

— David Duchovny

I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb.

— William Butler Yeats

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and…

— Anzia Yezierska

My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did…

— Juliet Mills

Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on Thee and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country.

— Jessica Simpson

Much that is great in literature is an acquired taste, and you have to acquire it in the first place. Our job…

— Michael Morpurgo

I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

Communism is not a political party nor a political plan under the Constitution; it is a system of government that is the…

— David O. McKay

My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going…

— Felicity Jones

“I’ve done some soul searching… Looked deep within myself, ya know? I've reached the conclusion that 'Fuck You!' is my spirit animal,…

— Dennis Sharpe

“During the wars of the Empire, while husbands and brothers were in Germany, anxious mothers gave birth to an ardent, pale, and…

— Alfred De Musset

“Girls were warned by their mothers against infidelity to their husbands, since adultery cost a married woman her nose, or ears; for…

— Frank Bird Linderman

The film 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,' based the book of the same name, has a line that enlightens and comforts…

— Steve Gleason

Everyone just did what their parents did. So that immediately made me skeptical of the whole religion thing, even as a kid.…

— Aziz Ansari

My father would tell me my defects but never praise me to my face. The good things about me he would only…

— Jaideep Ahlawat

Parents, problems, friends, crushes, love, fake love, dating, responsibility, drama, heartache, failures, stress, happiness...It's life.

— Anonymous

I don't think Emma Watson needs any advice. She's an incredibly smart young woman who knows what she wants out of life…

— Ethan Hawke

No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for…

— Francine Pascal

Relative to most people I know, I am comfortable just about anywhere. I went to 20 schools before the 8th grade because…

— Clark Blaise

I was named after my paternal grandmother, my dadi. She died before I was born, which is why my parents named me…

— Amyra Dastur

My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to…

— Veronica Roth

I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I went to jail for a year when I was 17. When I got out, my mother took me to the recruiting…

— Charlie Murphy

I find it cute how my real dad calls and tries to help me out but my step dad will always be…

— Anonymous

I used to go to the stables and fool with the mules. My mother lived in constant fear that I might be…

— Rudolph Valentino

My mother had always been a working woman and so she would drop me to my mama's house everyday for the whole…

— Supriya Pathak

Being a teenager has to be the worse time of a person's life considering that parents and us teens won't ever be…

— Anonymous

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was…

— Frank Butler

We yearn, as spirit children of our Heavenly Father, for that joy which we once had with Him in the life before…

— Henry B. Eyring

“On Bring-Your-Dad-to-School Day Who are all these fucking parents who can take a day off? If I'm taking a day off, I…

— Justin Halpern

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to…

— Maeve Binchy

I love my parents no matter what we go through, no matter how much we argue, bcoz I know, at the end,…

— Anonymous

My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

— Jack Whitehall

My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.

— Vinnie Jones

My parents definitely sparked something in me. I'm sure of it. I saw how happy and fulfilled they were, and I knew…

— Marion Cotillard

My father offered me a dollar for every pound I would lose as a kid. It didn't work. And it doesn't really…

— Richard Simmons

There might be wideness in God's love and mercy for us, but there is ONLY and I mean ONLY one way to…

— Pauline Seaport