I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. — Rick Famuyiwa Copy Share Image
Early in my career I began receiving letters from a woman in the Midwest who claimed to be my mother. — Charley Pride Copy Share Image
My acting career began at age three and my parents got me into it. I was in a McDonald's commercial. — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You know what they say: 'Once you go black, your parents don't talk to you anymore. — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
I gave my jersey to Mourinho because he’s the best coach in the world and I love him like a father. — Mesut Ozil Copy Share Image
Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
Lego for many parents is the antithesis of the high tech world. We are desperate to wean our little ones away from… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky early on to be surrounded when I was a child by music from various countries. My parents would… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
My parents are my best friends and I would tell them things that I would tell nobody as they would never judge… — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image
A mother will flatter herself thinking you are too much like herself, heightened the confusion when he is nowhere to be found! — Aubrey Smith Copy Share Image
I just loved comedy, and I think it was my parents who initially brought up the notion of me trying to do… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Most of the early Christian writers thought the text "I and my Father are one," was to be understood of an unity… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
“Once the hag got upset she was apt to go downhill very fast and remember things like she was an orphan. People… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, having a mom stay home is a big help. On the other hand, when a mother works outside the home, her… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't respect my parents' authority or appreciate all that they did for me, but when I was 18… — Ryan Sheckler Copy Share Image
“Nor was he around when I finally understood that having a loving and nurturing father made a lifetime of difference. Only after… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Being a good father is can't measure by materials and by what things they can give, a father's love is a measurable,… — Sheila Poblacion Copy Share Image
The first thing, when I got the money, I knew I would support somebody. And the person I supported was my family.… — Michael Schumacher Copy Share Image
My father wasn't perfect. He had a temper. I took some of that. He would snap, but the older he got, he… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
I have said I will not have a 30-year run like my father for a variety of reasons. — Brian France Copy Share Image
For me it is important that children be children. My parents felt exactly the same about me. — Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden Copy Share Image
“Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying.” — Michelle M. Pillow Copy Share Image
How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things. — Laozi Copy Share Image
With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you. — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother. — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect. — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
