My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34. — John Gokongwei Copy Share Image
“Special children require very patient parents. Anybody can lose it with a normal pre-teenager, let alone one who needs extra help and… — Michelle Stimpson Copy Share Image
“Did you ever stop to wonder what untruths might have been in the tale your mother told you, that served her purpose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Infants who are temperamentally easygoing and affable raise their parents very differently than those who are cranky and tense.” — Brian R. Little Copy Share Image
My father was a director, and my mother and grandparents were actors, so I spent a great deal of my time as… — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
Im pleased to say that in telling them, and especially my parents, they told me that they love me and they support… — Ian Thorpe Copy Share Image
“That wasn’t Christian,” she says. “Brilliant observation, Mother.” “What happened?” “He’s in love with another girl,” I say, and pull the silver… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement.… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
My mother saw her mother... her father walked out when they were very young and it was a lot of, I'd say… — Kathy Hochul Copy Share Image
If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
“Mother says she doesn't need the medication anymore, that the only cure for cancer is having a daughter who won't cut her… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
…for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest - and I would guess most common - mistakes parents make is to transfer their own childhood shit… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
My dad is more credible than almost anybody I know. Growing up, I think I took for granted having a father in… — Jabari Parker Copy Share Image
“Every Monday, we have to write about what we did at the weekend.” It didn’t appear that her mother understood the agony… — Jane Davis Copy Share Image
“And it was no shame to her that she so dreamed. It was no shame that she called before her, one by… — Harold Bell Wright Copy Share Image
Goal setting is the essence of life. Tenaciously pursue your goals not for external praise but for inner reward. It makes you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
I was about seven years old. In my mother's garage I used to create plays and star in them and charge the… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
There is something special about unions of husband and wife. Unless we bring men and women together, children will not have mothers… — Carrie Prejean Copy Share Image
The term role model is thrown around a lot, and I always tell people, your role models are hopefully parents and great… — Sarah Thomas Copy Share Image
“Acceptance is to love and embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child.” — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
People my age, we would hear from our parents and grandparents who were raised in Detroit about how great this city was… — Dan Gilbert Copy Share Image
“And then, as reason seeped back into my overheated brain, I would realize how much alike we were: that my father angered… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
[Louis Armstrong is] the father of us all, regardless of style or how modern we get. His influence is inescapable. Some of… — Nicholas Payton Copy Share Image
I just found the piano so fascinating and wonderful, and I begged my parents to buy me one. In the end, they… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
I have always loved lipstick. For women, that love comes from our mother and grandmothers. It's so natural for a woman to… — Monica Bellucci Copy Share Image
I was a terrible father. The most I ever did for my children was to teach them chess. At least they got… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
When you have controversial parents, people have expectations about you. If every day at work I thought to myself, 'How does this… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's… — Lee Haney Copy Share Image
I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
My father was a farmer, and we have had some farming land in Haryana. Maybe I would have followed his footsteps and… — Virender Sehwag Copy Share Image
I'm a SoHo born-and-raised kid. So my parents dragged me to lots of museums, and for birthdays and any kind of celebration,… — Zac Posen Copy Share Image
“stood side by side. My mother too had served the Lady. Too young to bear arms in the last war, from within… — Catherine M. Wilson Copy Share Image
Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
It is increasingly hard for young white people to find jobs, and I can understand why white parents are worried about the… — Helen Suzman Copy Share Image
My own mother is very accomplished and makes things like bahar breads as though they are going out of fashion - they… — Art Malik Copy Share Image
My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she… — Rudolph A. Marcus Copy Share Image
“Enough wars have been started over this face. My face. My curse—and my mother’s curse, and her mother’s curse, and so on… — Josephine Angelini Copy Share Image
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