My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers. — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of… — Jeffrey R. Immelt Copy Share Image
Sister, mother And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“The kind of relationship I had with my mother didn't make me gay. I had that kind of relationship with my mother… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
“I didn’t speak until I was 5. It wasn’t that I didn’t know how, I was just afraid of what my words… — S.L. Jennings Copy Share Image
My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews. — Alan King Copy Share Image
“Stories wanted to be read, David's mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason they forced themselves from their world… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Contemporary families can be made in many ways. You might step up when relatives or friends are unable to meet their obligation… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all about I'm… — Dree Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Recently, I watched an episode of The Big Bang Theory. One of the characters, Howard—an astrophysicist—is in space. His new bride, Bernadette,… — Veena Venugopal Copy Share Image
“And it seems to me I can, it seems to me I can open the little wicket gate, and cry, “There is… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The traditional paradigm of parenting has been very hierarchical, the parent knows best and very top down. Conscious parenting topples [this paradigm]… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
My childhood was all about going to church, singing in church. And later on, after I got a little older, my mother… — Rudy Ray Moore Copy Share Image
“But her mother was one of those weakest of women who can never forget the beauty they once possessed, or quite believe… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I grew up on a farm and, prior to my father's murder, I wanted to get away from the farm, and away… — Shirley Sherrod Copy Share Image
The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
The great lesson I got from my parents is how not to treat your children. To break that chain, even if I… — Naveen Andrews Copy Share Image
I remember, in elementary school, being asked what my father does and not knowing how to answer. When I asked my mom… — Yoshi Wada Copy Share Image
My parents gave me an incredible foundation and a strong faith in who I am. They loved me in the face of… — Lizzie Velasquez Copy Share Image
My mother taught me to cleanse, tone, and moisturize twice a day, so I always do that - I could be partying… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
“There are orphanages," he exclaimed to himself, "for children who have lost their parents--oh! why, why, why, are there no harbours of… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was… — Kay Panabaker Copy Share Image
“in the industrial towns children went to work with their fathers and mothers, schools and doctors were only promises, a bed of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
“Fear belongs to the devil. Let that beast keep it. Faith belongs to the Lord. Give that to Him. Let your faith… — Kelly O'Callan Copy Share Image
My mother has been moved out of intensive care and into a private room where she is being kept comfortable. Thank you… — Melissa Rivers Copy Share Image
I didn't want to repeat my parents life. I saw in their lives a routine and a lack of dreaming, a lack… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
“God the Father has made everything to depend on faith, so that whosoever has it has all things, and he who has… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
What I hope the most is to be more successful as a mother than in show business, because to be a mother… — Celine Dion Copy Share Image
“Sometimes she would whisper the word Mama and see her mother’s face a hundred times in a single afternoon.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didn't… — Carmen Ejogo Copy Share Image
I am a true psychic. In my family it's the norm. My sister and mother are always 'in my head' and say… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
I find the idea of walking down the aisle and then being handed to the groom by the father very romantic. — Sushmita Sen Copy Share Image
The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I have a picture I keep in my wallet of my father's corpse... I keep that picture in my wallet to show… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image