These mom and dad quotes will inspire you.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging mom and dad quotes, mom and dad sayings, and mom and dad proverbs.
Best Mom And Dad Quotes
- “Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That’s how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.” ~ Mitt Romney
- “My mom and dad, you’re my heart, thank you for keeping me going all these years and never letting me give up.” ~ Anna Gunn
- “One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.” ~ Jim DeMint
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“I am blessed to have Mom and Dad.” ~ Kevin Eubanks
- “I’m a good blend of both my mom and dad.” ~ Danica Patrick
- “My mom and dad gave me everything they could have given me.” ~ Carlos Beltran
- “My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all – the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.” ~ Mitt Romney
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“In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “Every kid needs to say, ‘I want what my mom and dad have.’” ~ Josh McDowell
- “I have great genes. Thank you to my mom and dad for that one.” ~ Gloria Estefan
- “The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” ~ Theodore Hesburgh
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“One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents.” ~ Sara Shandler
- “Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in… But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.” ~ Bill Watterson
- “I learned from my mom and dad, who didn’t have a formal education but had doctorates of love. They told me that if you gave 110 percent all the time, a lot of beautiful things will happen. I may not always be right, but no one can ever accuse me of not having a genuine love and passion for whatever I do.” ~ Dick Vitale
- “I feel like I’ve lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.” ~ Leona Lewis
- “No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren’t cool, just to establish themselves. That’s what adolescence is about. They’re gonna go through that no matter what.” ~ Eddie Vedder
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“To me, my parents are my mom and dad, and we were able as kids to do a lot of cool things. Just being part of that family definitely brought out and cultivated the creative arts in us.” ~ Brooklyn Sudano
- “But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad can’t. Or won’t.” ~ Edward Bloor
- “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they’re fun, they do things together, they’re best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they’re going to respect Mom.” ~ Tim Allen
- “Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child’s life and it’s like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.” ~ Gary Smalley
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“The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.” ~ Ellen Hopkins
- “Children desperately need to know – and to hear in ways they understand and remember – that they’re loved and valued by mom and dad.” ~ Gary Smalley
- “I never followed a band, I never followed a – nothing. I think maybe it’s because my mom and dad were not like that, and it was just me and mom and dad. We were very close; we spent a lot of time just together, just enjoying each other’s company.” ~ Luke Evans
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“My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.” ~ Dan Gable
- “Now, if you’re Al Gore, you can afford $10 a pop for squiggly-pig-tailed fluorescent light bulbs. But if you’re mainstream America, two or three kids, mom and dad working outside the home, that’s not a very good deal.” ~ Joe Barton
- “It was fine when I was single and childless. Carrying the responsibility of screwing up your kids at the same time is huge. I remember when I got Peter Pan, and I told my mom and dad and my friends I was leaving – again, I was cast way late on – in the next two days to go to Australia for four months, and they all went “Bye! See you in four months!” But no one said “We need you,” and I really knew that it was time to think about someone else for a change.” ~ Olivia Williams
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“”Someday I’m going to marry someone like my mom and I’ll be smiling all the time the way my Mom and Dad are.” ~ Koushun Takami
- “I want to be stereotyped. I want to be classified. I want to be a clone. I want to be masochistic. I want to be sadistic. I want a Suburban Home. I don’t want no hipppie pad; I want a house just like Mom and Dad.” ~ Milo Aukerman
- “Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I’m just the next generation, since it’s always been around me when I was younger when I looked up to my mom and dad, to Michael Jackson, and B2K was my favorite band growing up.” ~ Jacob Latimore
- “My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They’d always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh” ~ Dominic Monaghan
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“My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that’s where I started, that’s where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.” ~ Pauly Shore
- “There are no secrets at our house. We tell the kids, ‘Mom and Dad are going off to kiss.’ They go, ‘Eww, gross!’ But we demand it.” ~ Brad Pitt
- “It’s always been a dream of mine to get somewhere and to have my mom and dad with me up there.” ~ Haley Reinhart
- “You know, you always want to just do your own thing – I mean some people want to be exactly like their parents – Ibut I wanted to do my own thing and I ended up doing a kind of mix of my mom and dad.” ~ Jillian Hervey
- “My wrestling and family go together. It’s always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.” ~ Dan Gable
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“My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.” ~ Gwen Stefani
- “This is a very insulting tribute
But take it in good heart
Congratulations Mom and Dad
You’ve reached Silver together…apart
Lots of love etc” ~ John Walter Bratton - “It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from ‘Dear Abby’ instead of going to Mom and Dad.” ~ Abigail Van Buren
- “I’m sure there were times when I wish I had thought, ‘Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,’ but our parents didn’t raise us to think about them. They’re very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn’t think of any repercussions.” ~ Jenna Bush
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“Hee hee hee! You should’ve seen the look on your face!” “If mom and dad cared about me at all, they’d buy me some infra-red nighttime vision goggles.” ~ Bill Watterson
- “Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn’t that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water.” ~ Jesse Ventura
- “Most children – I know I did when I was a kid – fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don’t tell their real parents about that – you don’t want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.” ~ Maurice Sendak
- “To you, Mom and Dad, and to all the moms and dads and
families and faithful people everywhere, I thank you for sacrificing for your
children, and for other people’s children, for wanting so much to give them
advantages you never had, for wanting so much to give them the happiest life
you could provide” ~ Jeffrey R. Holland -
“I didn’t really get into golf until I was about 14. My mom and dad were taking lessons from a pro an hour and a half from our farm in Cohuna, Australia. When they got home, I’d ask my mom to explain everything they learned – drills and all.” ~ Stuart Appleby
- “I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and really saw the funny in stuff, so I think that’s probably where it came from. I always try to see the funny in things.” ~ Christine Ebersole
- “Trying to understand the fear I had of truly opening my heart – first, you have to be whole to do that. The fears, the voices in my mind saying, “Oh, you don’t want to do that, you might get hurt, they might abandon you – “those are ghost voices from my mom and dad.” ~ Jane Fonda
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“My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.” ~ Tracy Austin
- “It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.” ~ Karrie Webb
- “When you were growing up, your mom and dad told you to look both ways before crossing the street or not to get into a car with a stranger. It’s the same with the internet. We have a big responsibility and a huge role in bringing all the stakeholders to the table – users, parents, educators, law enforcement, government organisations.” ~ Chris DeWolfe
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“My dad passed away…and suddenly I found myself at the top of the tree and looking at the sky instead of at my mom and dad.” ~ Neil Young
- “That’s the way it is with firstborns. Mom and Dad may think they’re in charge, but the firstborn knows better, and so does the youngest sibling.” ~ Kevin Leman
- “When I first made the team I didn’t even know there was a national team. So to meit was all new. When I got asked to go on the trip to China I was 16. I said, ‘well you know what I have to ask my parents.’ So I called home and I am like, ‘Mom and Dad can I go to China?’ They were like ‘sure.'” ~ Kristine Lilly
- “Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.” ~ Jeremy Bonderman
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“It’s [Jack the Giant Slayer] one of those fairy tales your mom and dad read to you when you’re little. Never once did I imagine myself in it. It’s just phenomenal. Words just can’t really describe it. It brings the biggest smile to my face.” ~ Eleanor Tomlinson
- “Time machine… wouldn’t you like to travel through time? I would. I’d go back… mess with people. You know what I would do? I would go back to when my mom and dad were having sex, to have me. Ya’know, come in, spank my dad on the ass I’m your son from the future! Ahaha!” ~ Dane Cook , Mom and dad quotes son
- “I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time’s a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love.” ~ Rodney Atkins
- “It was a conversation that I didn’t want to have with my parents to say mom and dad I missed my flight.” ~ Manti Te’o
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“I’d like to thank Mom and Dad, just for the genetics.” ~ Shawn Michaels
- “We already had an adopted daughter, 10-year-old Courtney, from my previous marriage. To me, there is no difference between ‘natural’ and ‘adopted.’ My own childhood showed me that when it comes to loving your kids, concepts like that don’t apply. I was the oldest of six, and three of my siblings were adopted. Mom and Dad even took in foster children. ‘There are no limits to how much you can love,’ Dad always said.” ~ Al Roker , Mom and dad quotes daughter
- “From my mom and dad, because they’re happily married for a long time: Just listen. Listen to him. I’m so independent and driven and stubborn. Just let him talk. It’s about not being so stubborn and having to win every argument. My parents set a great example. They love each other and take care of each other so much.” ~ Erin Andrews
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“My mom and dad would take me all over. One night we’d be at the Apollo watching James Brown, and then I’d be at the Joffrey Ballet. It was that kind of scene.” ~ Lenny Kravitz
- “I had a tremendous upbringing and foundation but as others like me have experienced, when you go to college, mom and dad are no longer there to help guide. There were some moments in college that really cemented my own convictions and beliefs. It was a real period of growth and maturity in my sanctifying process. I got married in college. That was a tremendous blessing. Four years later, we started having children and that gives you a deeper understanding of the Father’s love.” ~ Aaron Kampman
- “Growing up in New Orleans, my mom and dad were churchgoers. I would go to church with them. Also, I was going to a Catholic school so I had a fascination with the Catholic Church mainly because, in my mind, (their services) didn’t take as long. I was bouncing in between my mom’s Baptist church, which was called Second Zion Baptist, and going to a Catholic Church.” ~ Avery Johnson
- “You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much. It was awesome she was backing me up and defending me.” ~ Gabby Douglas
