I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
I spent my earliest years in Colwyn Bay in north Wales with my mother and grandmother, while my father was stationed with… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice, and this… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Mother was like this sometimes. Conversations became riddles with traps in them, and your answers had consequences.” — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
In between being born in Nazi Germany, and marriage to my dad - of which I think marriage to my dad might… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
“They all spoke kindly of my dead mother, who had been a slave merely in name, but in nature was noble and… — Harriet Jacobs Copy Share Image
India is the mother of religion. In her are combined science and religion in perfect harmony, and that is the Hindu religion,… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“My mother called the cops and demanded they remove me from the house. I was never sure if she had me removed… — Debra Anastasia Copy Share Image
“Beyond all lessons, beyond the model she provided, my mother gave me a parent's ultimate gift; she made me feel lovable and… — Fredelle Maynard Copy Share Image
When I pick up one of my children and cuddle them, all the strain and stress of life temporarily disappears. There is… — Nicola Horlick Copy Share Image
I was very quick; I did nothing but play the piano apart from being at school. I was at home with my… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
“I wondered if Kate would harden as my mother had when she was young and her own mother died. Some people exist… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
I didn't have parents who were, you know, racing to get a reality television show, you know? Or looking to benefit in… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
“Kyung-sook's mother had taken it as an example that even if you started with nothing, with enough studying, one could accomplish everything.” — Marie Myung-Ok Lee Copy Share Image
I'm a Black man who was raised by a single mother in a housing project. That story doesn't usually end in Congress. — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
The worst decision, hands down, was wearing bright yellow when I was 9 months pregnant. I looked like a bumble bee. I… — Safra A. Catz Copy Share Image
From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I ask my children (all of them) to be what they want to be; just be the best they can at what… — Richard Marcinko Copy Share Image
He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
When I was five, long before I understood what the word 'gender' meant, I would always tell my mother that I wished… — Josie Totah Copy Share Image
My mother raised me very clearly that if you cross the street, you will die. If you go outside, you will die.… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Without death, life would have no boundaries and our days would not be so precious. My mother was a firm believer in… — Bernadette Pajer Copy Share Image
The taboo for straight actors playing gay is gone... My mother was squirming a bit in the theater because she comes from… — Dean Cain Copy Share Image
“Becoming a mother or father is so much more than giving birth to a child. It’s a developmental process that continues for… — Jerry L. Wyckoff Copy Share Image
If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
My mother always took my brothers and me to music lessons. There were six children. Our parents attended our concerts and encouraged… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
All my life I've had a weight problem. As a child, I loved to eat. I would hide from my mother and… — Maria Conchita Alonso Copy Share Image
I've always maintained that Mom was 100 times a better human being than she was an actor. And a 1000 times better… — Mohnish Bahl Copy Share Image
My father and mother were not that compatible. I don't think they had a good wedding night, and I was the product… — Harry Dean Stanton Copy Share Image
“our mother recalled it. But the nun’s language in these matters—matters of the body, of the flesh, what went on between women… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
Mothers of today have no greater opportunity and no more serious challenge than to do all they can to strengthen the home. — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
“I look at the cake in my mother's arms and think: here stands the only person in the whole world who'd go… — Sara Baume Copy Share Image
A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The best part about having children is being able to point at them and proudly proclaim, "Hey, I made those.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
