Famous Parents Quotes in English with Images

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.

Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers.  The original meal has never been found.

That's sort of a cliche about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful children in the world.  But the thing is, what no one really talks about is the fact that we all really believe it.

This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.

What children take from us, they give... We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

My parents only had one argument in forty-five years.  It lasted forty-three years.

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

- Parents Quotes by Bern Williams

Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

A mother is not a person to learn on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

There is... nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity.  Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.

- Rita Rudner Quotes

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them.  My mother cleans them.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.