“My father and mother did not think they should have brought a superintendent into the world.” — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The child supplies the power but the parents have to do the steering. — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
My parents have one rule for me: I can't do any of this if I have any C's on my report card. — Coco Jones Copy Share Image
The extraordinary thing about my mother, she's so modest about me. — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
“Manu is the father of mankind, and therefore from manu comes the word man, or, in Sanskrit, manuṣya.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldn't understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be… — David Antin Copy Share Image
I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
“Many men have children, but not many children have 'Fathers'. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
It's an extraordinary experience to encounter the two kinds of deaths of my parents, one violent and jagged, it hits you like… — Mariette Hartley Copy Share Image
As a parent, I know I speak for millions when I say that every child deserves to grow up in a stable,… — Todd Young Copy Share Image
“Social expectations about what constitutes a good or a bad mother haunt every decision, and the rise of the parental advice industry… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Mama and Daddy King represent the best in manhood and womanhood, the best in a marriage, the kind of people we are… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
I think my mother had a lot of opportunity when she was a kid. She was a model, and she did a… — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
I can't tell you how many times, whether we were discussing the economy, health care or energy crisis, the president walked to… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
I was a mother who worked ridiculously hard to keep catastrophe at bay. I didn't allow my kids to eat hamburgers for… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
When every court was saying 'no,' I believe God was still saying yes. I had to somehow find that faith and reach… — Anthony Ray Hinton Copy Share Image
“When God Created Mothers" When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
You are putting yourself in serious danger...' I think that I preferred to put myself in serious danger rather than confront my… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“Sometimes April worried that she'd been built without some fundamental piece that everyone else had that just let them deal. Even her… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
I think that the ideal of parenting can make people unhappy. It's that this lie that they're being told by society that… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible. — Simon Helberg Copy Share Image
Here's a shock: An adult who still hangs out in skate parks is a bad parent. — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
“It's not so much that Adele was a mother to me, it's that to me, a mother was Adele.” — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
“The heart resembles a feather in the desert that the breezes turn over and over again” — Atef Ashab Uddin Sahil Copy Share Image
Not his own in this world, I've done that mistake, which my parents were married — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s. — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes. — Eva Gabor Copy Share Image
My parents didn't raise me to be a professional player. They raised me to be a good person. — Mark Prior Copy Share Image
I've always played for the acceptance of my godfather (Willie Mays) and father (Bobby Bonds). — Barry Bonds Copy Share Image
“Mothers and fathers are born everywhere. What the world needs are leaders.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I'm not fanatical about exercise, but I am really fastidious about trying to be a good parent. — Davina McCall Copy Share Image
