Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old. — Solomon Copy Share Image
“[My father,] A man who had been taught only to destroy found it hard to create.” — Nadia Hashimi Copy Share Image
My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“Father continues to make the vulgar error,” she said, “that to a woman, love is her whole existence.” — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Mother chants her litany of boredom and frustration, but we all know her suicides are fake. — The Police Copy Share Image
Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Camille Hanks, whose upper-middle-class parents both had college degrees, was a student at the University of Maryland planning on a teaching career… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
For me, playing a mother was a point of resistance; the question of 'will I get typecast' was going on in my… — Kirti Kulhari Copy Share Image
My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
When I came out to my parents, I knew that they knew. My father was like, 'Are you sure?' I literally said,… — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
The real mother is not like when the woman pregnant and they have theyself called mom. When you take care with you… — Nini Win Copy Share Image
As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time… — Cindy Crawford Copy Share Image
My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
“It was true: the other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love… — Al Roker Copy Share Image
“She knew well the history of which they spoke because her father had been a part of it. When the military overseers… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
I saw a dead elephant in one of Kenya's natural reserves. Around her were footprints of her baby elephant. This was just… — Li Bingbing Copy Share Image
“Merda! Her lace panties had snagged on his ring, the signet ring he'd inherited from his father, Giacomo Casanova. His father had… — Kerrelyn Sparks Copy Share Image
“Story telling or teachable moments, provides us with a vast reference base of real life antidotes for possible future problems. They not… — Drexel Deal Copy Share Image
My mother was a big influence; she was exceedingly chic, completely dressed in a completely different manner than I did. I was… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
We cannot give our children what we don't have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I am a husband, son and father, a reader, a traveller, a fan, and also a cook. — Prakash Raj Copy Share Image
My parents are conservatives. Owning a small business lent itself to that viewpoint. — Daniel Cameron Copy Share Image
I was conceived after doctors told my mother she'd never have children. I'm a miracle - we all are. — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
There are good mothers and bad ones, but most of them are somewhere in-between. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed. — Hugh Leonard Copy Share Image
After 2012, I wanted to stop, but my father told me I had to play the World Cup. I tried to be good. — Samir Nasri Copy Share Image
My parents were entrepreneurs. I grew up believing in the power of innovation. — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
My mother was a beautiful lady, elegant, chic, and that was the biggest inspiration to me. — Hubert de Givenchy Copy Share Image
I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
I'm a very secretive person. That's how I grew up. My father was very secretive. — Isabelle Adjani Copy Share Image
Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are? — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
The value of holding a grudge. And to always refer to my father sarcastically as Mr. Wonderful. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
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