Quotes About Parenting

Tender expressions of love and affection toward children are as much the responsibility of the father as the mother. Tell your children you love them.

One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.

Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.

My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.

Whatever the era...one thing will never change: Fathers and mothers, if you have children, they must come first.

Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.

My real name is Mica, spelled with a C. My dad is called Michael. He wanted me to be called Michael but my mother said over her dead body. She wasn't into the whole junior thing.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

I can't say I really see much difference between my son and daughters except that my girls will occasionally make me a sandwich and my son won't.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

I was Hannah Montana's mother ... Where did I go wrong?

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I understand the difficulties that families have. I understand single parenting.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother.

I have three older brothers, and each one of them has chosen one of my parents' education. Two of them are actors, and the third is a doctor as my mother is.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.