I think just what my parents instilled in me was hard work and being able to always go out there and focus… — Jerry Rice Copy Share Image
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“My mother’s favorite saying is “Qui se ressemble s’assemble.” Whenever she didn’t approve of who I was spending time with, she’d say… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Turn to Mary, tota pulchra, all pure and wonderful, and tell her: Our Lady and Mother, the Lord wanted you yourself to… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't behave.… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
“The other girls. You always bolt when things get intense. Remember? You don't do meeting the parents. You don't do serious." A… — Sara Hantz Copy Share Image
My daddy served in the army where he lost his right eye, but he flew a flag out in our yard until… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
I lost my father when I was 13 years old. He was a great man, my father, and very intelligent. I love… — Preity Zinta Copy Share Image
My job is to be a role model, and that's what I want to do, but my job isn't to be a… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there was always this feeling of, 'You can't do these things.' It was nothing that my parents… — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
My parents probably feel closer to the U.S. They feel America came to our rescue in the war and all that sort… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
“Yes, it’s unfortunate that we have been conditioned to see an alternative to motherhood as not normal. But you do all realise… — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
Our Heavenly Father and our Savior, Jesus Christ, know us and love us. They know when we are in pain or suffering… — Linda S. Reeves Copy Share Image
“I felt very alone. I lived in a world with practical people, like Emily and Rush and my parents, people who had… — Chelsea Sedoti Copy Share Image
In every kid's life, there's about three or four years when you're at liberty, and after that, you have to get a… — Lemmy Copy Share Image
I did not intend to be a writer. I first wanted to be a lawyer, like my father. Then I got bit… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
“The day my mother died I wrote in my journal, "A serious misfortune of my life has arrived." I suffered for more… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
The people I see from my window. In the huts, in the distance. They're all dressed the same.' 'Ah, those people,' said… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Withal I did infer your lineaments, Being the right idea of your father, Both in your form and nobleness of mind; Laid… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“The Pelagianizing Romanist says, Lust, or concupiscence, brings forth sin, therefore it cannot be sin, because the mother cannot be the child.… — Charles Porterfield Krauth Copy Share Image
My father once said, ‘If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don’t… — Yanni Copy Share Image
We shall therefore take an appropriately correct view of the origin of our life, if we consider our own embryos to have… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
“It's not surprising that he doesn't have any manners. Most kids today don't. But if you ask me, it's a direct reflection… — S.G. Browne Copy Share Image
We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, and I'll never see… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
For my parents it was all about getting a deal, my dad came to America and he heard of this concept of… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
“ The Mercy The ship that took my mother to Ellis Island eighty-three years ago was named "The Mercy." She remembers trying… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“Where in the context might we look for the reward that the Father encourages us to seek? I think a reliable guide… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth,… — James Green Copy Share Image
One day, I said to my father, 'I'm thinking of giving the comedy thing a try, what's your advice?' He goes, 'If… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
“Mother was comfort. Mother was home. A girl who lost her mother was suddenly a tiny boat on an angry ocean. Some… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
It seems to me that a Latter-day Saint parent has a responsibility in love and gentleness to affirm the teaching of the… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“God does not have grandchildren, and so it does not matter if you were—or weren’t—born into a Christian family! The fact that… — Pedro Okoro Copy Share Image
Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My father grew up with no money. He was raised in one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the U.S. My mother helped… — David Lauren Copy Share Image
“Parents and schools are teaching children how not to think, but how to be good little groupthinkers and people of faith, how… — David Sinclair Copy Share Image
You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My mother was very ill when I was 18. She had a brain operation and then a nervous breakdown. It's very strange… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
Liberal child welfare experts decided that child abuse was not evidence of a moral or character flaw in the abusing parent. Instead,… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
