Running isn't a sport because anyone can do it. Anything we can all do can't be a sport. I can run, you… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
If you are young child and you've lost mother and dad to AIDS and rich nations sit on the sidelines not caring,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The day Mother Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? killed Father The Outlaw Josey Wales, they were arguing again about the Pre-Reddening game… — Nick DiChario Copy Share Image
I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America… — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image
My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up -… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“I'm the wife of a king, and the mother of kings. And I'm not asking you, I'm telling you. So fuck off,… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king,… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
“In the name of Jesus”, you are invoking the integrity of the giver - God. Every time you say, “In Jesus name”,… — David O. Oyedepo Copy Share Image
My mother was not a show business mother but I saw plenty of those mothers. If the kid didn't get the audition,… — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down… — John Green Copy Share Image
It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To me, bringing mindfulness-bas ed practices to students, teachers and parents is some of the most important work we can be doing.… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but it is the mother of any number of other things as well: sacrifice… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
Maybe it will be difficult, but I want to finish school. My parents want me to finish school, and I am pretty… — Matteo Manassero Copy Share Image
My mother would have enjoyed the idea that her name was being used to build bridges. She cared a great deal and… — Maya Soetoro-Ng Copy Share Image
“...parents unconsciously start very early to teach girls how to be, that baby girls are given less room and more rules and… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot. — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
“Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn't see in the places that I… — Nick Santino Copy Share Image
My parents couldn't afford a full time drama school, but I basically just did every class I could do, and followed every… — Christopher Parker Copy Share Image
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
It is a burden because I get asked about my father all the time. I just need to accept that he was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Our daughter deserves better than a father who refuses to say the words. Understand this, Beast, you might be strong and rich,… — Theodora Taylor Copy Share Image
As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a… — William Ruckelshaus Copy Share Image
“Whenever I kissed a boy in school, cut a day of classes, argued with my mother, over what I can’t remember, it… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Though my father guided me on how to act, unknowingly, she has been my teacher. The one actor who I look up… — Rupali Ganguly Copy Share Image
There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being… — Phylicia Rashad Copy Share Image
I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldnt do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that,… — Olesya Rulin Copy Share Image
I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and… — Grant Show Copy Share Image
“All the girls feared their Father less than they did their Mother, because she sometimes remembered things and he did not. Lord… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“All my life, I have been working with children whose lives were destroyed because their mothers hated them.” 1981 re: cause of autism” — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
It's a sacrifice for me. It's not really something I want to do. I don't love the idea of being a U.S.… — Wendy Long Copy Share Image
The founding fathers were great entrepreneurs. They shipped something akin to a software product: the first version of the 'ideological operating system'… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
[On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
If someone told my parents that their oldest child was going to be a major league pitcher, they wouldn't have believed it. — John Smoltz Copy Share Image