I have a lot of surrogate parents, but there's no one like your mother. — Yance Ford Copy Share Image
“Watching her mother’s decline had been slow and painful: the worst thing she had ever had to witness.” — Victoria Jenkins Copy Share Image
My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids. — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
It's fairly traumatizing for a young man to lose what you thought was a father figure. — Ruben Gallego Copy Share Image
“Well, it's like this," began Mother, "When you die you go and live in another part of London. And that's it." ~… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I entered the water as naked as when my mother bore me. When I first touched the cold water I felt a… — Tayeb Salih Copy Share Image
I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
This must be part of Mother Nature's master plan—making these boys so irresistibly cute, in such a naughty way, that the purity… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on… — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a… — Patrick Carney Copy Share Image
My father had barely any education. He could hardly write or count. But his great pride was that he was perfectly bilingual.… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
I grew up where we were told you couldn't do anything. 'By the way, if you think you're special, you're not,' my… — Robby Hoffman Copy Share Image
To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's… — Ernest Kurtz Copy Share Image
“Whether one is dealing with the state, the Mafia, parents, pimps, police, or husbands, the heavy price of institutionalised protection is always… — Wendy Brown Copy Share Image
Productive collaborations between family and school, therefore, will demand that parents and teachers recognize the critical importance of each other's participation in… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“There are two influences ever present in the world. One is constructive and elevating and comes from our Heavenly Father; the other… — George Albert Smith Copy Share Image
“Images of African Americans as bad mothers, ineffective mothers, and matriarchs...conceal and justify the difficult conditions in which they work and raise… — Leith Mullings Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family,… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Oh, you dear good father!" cried Mary, putting her hands round her father's neck, while he bent his head placidly, willing to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
