Quotes About Parenting

It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.

Your father is angry with me because he thinks I almost got myself killed,' said Sabriel, with a slight grin. 'I don't understand it myself, since I think he should be glad that I didn't.

I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.

It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy.

My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.

I have teenage boys and I think teenage boys require a father to have eyeballs on them at all times.

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child.

Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention

Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.

When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.

I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

I learned much from my father just by watching his example. If I saw him hold a door open for someone, I learned to do the same. Kids always observe their parents and I always watched my daddy.

My father wasn't the best role model to me.

I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.

I think I'm a father, but a father of three kids! :)

There aren't many fathers around here...If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up.

If we can just get young people to do the same as their fathers did, that is, wear condoms

I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.

Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn't do when he was young.