The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
My father always encouraged me to do whatever I wanted, providing I was happy. He wanted me to go to school, but… — Gino D'Acampo Copy Share Image
When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“But in the end I'd marry her to the one she herself loved. To a father, the man his daughter falls in… — Fyodor Dostoevksy Copy Share Image
I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors. — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
So if you don't like your life, change it. How would you change it? You decide. There's no action without first decision.… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
My father was a very good golfer and he got me started early. My grandfather played, too. It was just something that… — Steve Kroft Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I mean, I love my father, but I was always a mama's girl growing up. I'm… — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
I love Aretha [Franklin] and I've loved her all my life. I think she's an incredible songstress, obviously. She consistently has had… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
I can't even begin to describe how I miss him. He always supported me in everything I did. He was a very… — Dhani Harrison Copy Share Image
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit.… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My father wasn't a hard guy. He was a well-liked guy. He had a lot of compassion about things in life. There… — Tom Watson Copy Share Image
My parents' loss was compensated by the birth of my son Aryan and daughter Suhana. I believe they're my parents. In comparison… — Shahrukh Khan Copy Share Image
“Quoting Father Seraphim: Our life hangs only by a breath. It is the thread that links you to the Father, the Source,… — Jean-Yves Leloup Copy Share Image
I would think that to people like my father, and the people of his generation, Popeye is like a male priapist. So… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
My father's father fought to free Crete from the Turks, who expelled my mother from her ancestral home in Asia Minor in… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
Fatherhood didn't just happen to me. I am deliberately living it, re-imagining it, and rediscovering it every day. It is as beautiful… — Hrithik Roshan Copy Share Image
The odd thing, my dear," said her father, "is that once one has ceased trying to protect self, one finds one's self… — Donita K. Paul Copy Share Image
I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no… — Mark Shriver Copy Share Image
My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dreams for… — Ram Kapoor Copy Share Image
“Forget politics, his father had always said. Just give 'em something they need, or they'll eat you alive.” — Joe Schreiber Copy Share Image
My parents didn't know what to do with me, so they just pretended I was normal, and that worked out quite well… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
All of them - my father, mother, step-mother, and grandmother - were all wonderful actors and performers and they are an inspiration… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized. — Shere Hite Copy Share Image
I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best thing my mum and dad ever did for me was keeping me at home and giving me time to find… — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
“I would have thought even you could understand such a simple sentence, Father. Shall I repeat it in Latin for you?” — LJ Smith Copy Share Image
He die one day, and then he go above of my head to live with your father." He weared the long hair,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Today's Father Day and we're giving you a tie, it's not much you know, it's just our way of showing you, you're… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
My father has been targeted for persecution by the Turkish government and its leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, because of his association… — Enes Kanter Copy Share Image
I was born in a temple to a priest father, in a place like Benaras. So, my upbringing has been influenced by… — Ravi Kishan Copy Share Image
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I have to play baseball to make me happy. I have to be an athlete. But when it's all said and done,… — Rickey Henderson Copy Share Image
I think there's just incredible amounts of labeling generally and as woman, as a man, as a gay man, as a mother,… — Jonathan Bailey Copy Share Image
When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
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