“Normally I didn't attend my father's funerals unless I was scheduled to sing, but it wasn't every day Dad buried a rock… — Linda Budzinski Copy Share Image
People forget how the same children brought up with affection, effort, and love are the ones who later kick their parents. — Asha Bhosle Copy Share Image
“Right. Because he seemed like such a normal kid. And he is a normal kid, he is just what you'd expect a… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Growing up, my mom was my mother and father figure. She was my role model. I looked up to her. She was… — Brook Lopez Copy Share Image
There’s no winning arguments with your parents, so why get all pumped up over them? It is way better to dive down… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
Even though I'm not with their mother, it's important for my kids to see adults in a committed and happy relationship. They… — Michael Strahan Copy Share Image
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He grinned, raising the glass to his lips, the liquid wetting his mouth. I wanted to be that glass. -from chapter Hurts… — Brooklyn James Copy Share Image
Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that… — Mother Theresa Copy Share Image
If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
“Pappa, just stop and think for a minute. Is this really what you want?” “Hmm. What I want?” (he pronounces it ‘vat… — Marina Lewycka Copy Share Image
Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
Our television set was in the bedroom. I can picture my mother fast asleep, exhausted from driving my brothers around. I can… — Anne Murray Copy Share Image
Our ability to fall in love requires enough comfort with our masculinity to join it with someone's femininity and feel enhanced. ..… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
“Some people think listening is what you do between opportunities to say something. During listening times they don’t listen at all. They… — Tedd Tripp Copy Share Image
Mothers are full of love and laughter, filling our hearts forever after. Mothers are always loving and dreaming, putting up with us… — Susan M Keenan Copy Share Image
You will not easily get a man to believe that his carnal love for the woman he has made his wife is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand,… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
My parents were there to support us in whatever we wanted to do. But if we did something, they wanted to make… — Ryan Zimmerman Copy Share Image
“Necessity is the mother of delusion. For true love to exist there must be nothing that is necessary to it. Lovers have… — Billy Bob Stone Copy Share Image
My father was judgmental and kind of mean, and I'm like that. And he was very perfectionistic, and I'm like that. And… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
Love your mother no matter what you go through and no matter how much you argue with her because in the end,… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be memorized for everyone. I want to stay real,endless and inchangeable for my parents, kids and their descendants.” — Alexander Zalan Copy Share Image
My father was a black, working-class man who arrived here with no money in his pocket from Nigeria; my mum came from… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
“Spirituality means to me living the ordinary life extraordinarily well. As the old-church father said, 'The glory of God is a human… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
I have taken my friends' bikes for rides, but my parents never allowed me to get one for myself, as they think… — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
I would say that my parents were intermittently proud of me. They couldn't hang onto it, you know? It would come and… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
My parents have been my biggest influencers. They both immigrated to America and taught me that I can do anything I dream… — Summer Rae Copy Share Image
My friends' parents who were in the Marines, they were the people I looked up to the most. I looked up to… — Liz Carmouche Copy Share Image
I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
I understood the feeling of being 17 and living with your parents somewhere, and then being 18 and living in New York… — Morgan Saylor Copy Share Image
Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
My mother gave me the discipline to follow my dreams. You know: you can do what you want as long as you… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
My father wasn't present, so my older brother felt like a father. He was only two years older than me so that… — Saint Jhn Copy Share Image
Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies. — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
