My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
How much more beautiful would be the world and the society in which we live if...every mother regarded her children as the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I think, like every working parent, I sometimes feel that there are not enough hours in the day. But overall, I'm very… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
“I confess I had a Child of Divorce Reunion Fantasy Number One Thousand, where I for a moment imagined my father finding… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers,… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“It was Gideon who finally broke the silence, which gave me a certain satisfaction. “What’s the matter? Cat got your tongue?” The… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
“He preferred to not think of his mother as having hips. He preferred to not think of her as a woman at… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“And the peasants would beat them so cruelly, sometimes even about the nose and eyes, and he felt so sorry, so sorry… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
After I got this job at the syndicate, I started sending them money so they could go on trips and do the… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
I grew up in a theater family. My father was a regional theater classical repertory producer. He created Shakespeare festivals. He produced… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
I have a different experience. My father was a small-businessman. He worked really hard. He printed drapery fabrics on long tables, where… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
As a mother, May always reminds me of the end of the school year and the excitement, uncertainty, anticipation, and accomplishment that… — Cynthia Germanotta Copy Share Image
When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusiasm with… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
TV family sitcoms have always been about fathers who know best and mothers who are so enchanted with everything they do. I… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
“My father could have been a great comedian but he didn't believe that that was possible for him, and so he made… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
“this eldest son of the schoolmaster and the clerk of the parish had at fourteen received an education from parents, nature, and… — George Smith Copy Share Image
I didn't have a father to deal with about boyfriends. I didn't have a father to show me how a man and… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
Parents, of course, have concerns and 'say,' but they don't have the right to shield their children from knowledge. That is not… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“Sorry I missed our last session, but I saw my mother and I needed some time to pick myself back up off… — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
And being that my father is gone in immigrant and I have you know - that I owe my existence to immigration,… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
It is his life and he has to decide what he wants to become. Just as I got freedom from my parents,… — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
“I come for the woman,” the Comanche repeated, never taking his gaze from her. “And I bring my finest horses to console… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
Whether your father, husband, son, or brother has been on the front lines, driving a computer or programming a tank, wielding a… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
My mother was a tremendous influence - and still is - on my brothers and me in terms of the work ethic… — Sajid Javid Copy Share Image
From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“Your father tells me you will take the woman back. Cousin, this is boisa. Kill her. If you cannot spill her blood,… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
Our mother was killed for something she did not do. She was taken away from us. That's as personal as it can… — Robert Meeropol Copy Share Image
In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first,… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
It's sort of scary to work with your parents when you're in the same business. But there was something so very safe… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
“We walked in silence towards Swinica, beyond which the road, worn by long-distance lorries, twisted and turned; we walked slowly, like one… — Wioletta Greg Copy Share Image
“For many years, February was a difficult month for me after the death of my parents. My father died in February, just… — Mary Morrell Copy Share Image
“When he prayed he touched his parents, who could not otherwise be touched, and he touched a feeling that we are all… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“When, on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, Jerome had played his parents an ethereal, far more beautiful version of 'Hallelujah' by a kid… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Eleanor looked up, surprised; the little girl was sliding back in her chair, sullenly refusing her milk, while her father frowned and… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
Some men don't want to be responsible fathers. It's easier to say 'Let's just turn the kids over to the state.' Women… — Tim Huelskamp Copy Share Image
I do feel that film and TV are often behind when it comes to the way women look, they often dress them… — Kristin Davis Copy Share Image