I think I probably got a lot of my father's natural security or ego or whatever. I can be my own person… — Donald Trump, Jr Copy Share Image
My parents both left school at 14, but my parents are incredibly smart, successful, thoughtful people. So one of the lessons I… — Harry West Copy Share Image
No mother wants to hear her son say he's gay. Those two words rip the picture of a daughter-in-law and grandchildren into… — Johnny Weir Copy Share Image
My parents are very middle class. They don't have all this money to just be throwing around, but they would always give… — Nate Bargatze Copy Share Image
I'm really grateful to my parents for having the confidence in me to let me go. I was terrified I might have… — Sheridan Smith Copy Share Image
I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I… — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
Of all the memories I have of my father and of our relationship, none is warmer and more poignant than what happened… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
I was a big reader as a child. My father is a great book lover and a librarian, but he forbid me… — Asa Larsson Copy Share Image
“We work with both parents and their children to make lasting progress. Supporting the entire family to succeed is critically important, because… — Thomas L. Friedman Copy Share Image
What comforted me? That is easy. It was a strong cold chicken jelly so very, very thick. My mother's Chinese cook would… — James Beard Copy Share Image
One way to read the Book of Mormon is as a book of encounters between fathers and sons. Some of those encounters… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
I try to stay out of my kids' way and kind of just let them discover things for themselves. Our job as… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
“when affluent, educated parents decide to homeschool, public schools lose out on involved PTA parents and capable school-improvement advocates. Or when parents… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
My daughter lives in an apartment (hovel) in Brooklyn, so disgusting the roaches don't even bother hiking up the four flights of… — Kate Siegel Copy Share Image
“It was so awful! And he kept on looking at me and I knew I must get out of bed or he'd… — Evangeline Walton Copy Share Image
The first thing I ever heard about Barack Obama was that he had a white mother and a black father. Interestingly, the… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
I have a husband and four rescue dogs. There is no option of no dogs on the bed. This is how I… — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image
Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“It wasn't so much that my mother always had to have her own way; it was more that if you disagreed with… — James Scudamore Copy Share Image
“And then I see my mother sitting by the open window, her dark silhouette against the night sky. She turns around in… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“But they could neither of them persuade me, for there is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his… — Homer Copy Share Image
“It wasn't until the 1920s that a bare majority of children grew up in families where the father's labor purchased the family's… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
I've got letters from all over the world saying what you're describing as American parenting is Chilean middle-class parenting, or it is… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“There are carnivores, but not many. Symbiosis is the basic fact of life. That, and worship. Whistletop says all of the higher… — John Varley Copy Share Image
In my growing up, I never really enjoy father's love as much as I want, until I grow older that I realised… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
Of course you realize you're leaving me in the position of being the one tell everyone - your mother, Luke, Alec, Izzy,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Rhiannon readied her speech. The speech she’d given more than once over the years to Éibhear and, when they were much younger,… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life until I… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine,… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“You too, brother. But where are you going? Won't you at least tell me that?" He pats the rifle at his side-… — Jes Drew Copy Share Image
My father died from a heart attack. He was the sort of person who wouldn't complain. The symptoms are not heavy -… — Ray Fearon Copy Share Image
My mother herself is a very independent woman, and I've had a leading example in this respect. And my father is a… — Shruti Haasan Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing… — Dan Byrd Copy Share Image
What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
“Irrationally, Mosca felt she should have inherited her father’s intimate knowledge of Mandelion. His throwaway comments about the city should have magically… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
You end up going to school plays quite a bit as a parent, there are a lot of kids who are doing… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
My father had hammered into me, you want to look after your family, you want a nice house, and you want to… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
“Then he turned the pebbles over in his hardened fingers, remembering the only words in the way of wisdom his father had… — Robert Gatewood Copy Share Image
And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“As a little boy, when I would get angry, my mother would say, “Count to ten.” Try as I might, I could… — David W. Earle LPC Copy Share Image
