Parenting Quotes · Page 87

I had a very diametrically opposite set of parents.

— Bill Griffith

If you cant be yourself, you really arent anyone

— Aisha

I've been a long-distance father.

— Phil Collins

Drugs will turn you into your parents.

— Frank Zappa

Brian Howe had no mother, so he won't be missed.

— Mary Bell

“my mother’s eyebrows communed with her hairline.”

— Emily Pohl-Weary

Biggest influence: my mother.

— Charles Stross

I'm the mother of a Marine veteran.

— Lois Frankel

What I am signing and what I'm not, I do not discuss with either of my parents. I decide.

— Shruti Haasan

I'm missing home so much right now. I want my parents. I want my friends. I want my bed.

— Anonymous

When my father died, I did not cry. When my cat died three days later, I cried a lot.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

“We've got Father and Mother, and each other," said Beth contentedly from her corner.”

— Louisa May Alcott

Controlling mothers do not pass the baton to their son's new wife.

— Laura Schlessinger

“I watched my birth mother as she chatted to Dad, and took in her beautiful smile.”

— Katrina Kahler

I like changing my hairstyle, much to my mother's annoyance. It depends on my state of mind.

— Fernando Torres

My biggest musical influences are probably my parents.

— Bobby McFerrin

In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the…

— Dominique Moceanu

When children have grieving parents it's also common for them to feel an obligation to cheer them up and make them happy.

— Simon Callow

Every parent pursues the best possible opportunities for their child while climbing over obstacles and limitations each day. So in a way,…

— Andrew Yang

“There are dangers everywhere, I wanted to explain to her. On the school bus, in the cafeteria, at Start, inside me. No…

— Leila Sales

Children are not their parents property, but when your parents treat you like property, it is attachment, not love

— Anonymous

Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'

— James Rollins

[To the mother of two unruly children in a restaurant after the woman said she really didn't know what to do with…

— Joan Crawford

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am…

— Jane Austen

You know, how am I leading my own life? What am I denying? Since I brought such great powers of denial into…

— Terry Gross

“He had never seen the ocean before; he knew it only as the featureless blue void between the detailed continents on his…

— Jack Croxall

I went to school, majored in theatre, and said 'Mom, I have to choose my own destiny. I want to be an…

— Arsenio Hall

“If a young woman from money marries an old man because of money and nothing else and makes love to him for…

— Irmgard Keun

My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume…

— Pippa Middleton

I want to be an incredible father, an incredible husband and take great care of my wife and all my kids and…

— Jordan Fisher

“Peeta,” I say lightly. “You said at the interview you’d had a crush on me forever. When did forever start?” “Oh, let’s…

— Suzanne Collins

I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college…

— Jon Krakauer

Hope is the parent of Faith.

— C. A. Bartol

I was a single mother when my child was little.

— Gloria Allred

My father is a Malayalee, my mother is a Bengali.

— Ashish Vidyarthi

My parents were really nice to me.

— Bryan Callen

It's a big responsibility for sure, to be a father.

— Daniil Medvedev

My mother worshipped at the altar of the accessory.

— Iris Apfel

“Mothers are the fountain of creation”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I take you farther than Zimbabwe

— Lil Wayne