Famous Quotes

"The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter."

Meryl Streep on Parenting

More quotes about Parenting

• "To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him."

  Buddha on Parenting

• "A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."

  Billy Graham on Parenting

• "We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves."

  Henry Ward Beecher on Parenting

• "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."

  Sigmund Freud on Parenting

• "Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride."

  Ron Taffel on Parenting

More quotes by Meryl Streep

• "America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances."

• "I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do."

• "The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become."

• "Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person."

• "All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene."