I was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself. — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
“Raise your children to love and embrace others. Tell them they are beautiful; they may grow up to be stars one day,… — Kaiden Blake Copy Share Image
My father was a small business owner. When I was growing up, he ran a one-hour photo store - back when there… — Randall Park Copy Share Image
“I am the mother of this child. I am the one who carries it in her body. I am the giver of… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
My wife's father said if you marry my daughter I'll give you three acres and a cow. I'm still waiting for the… — Max Miller Copy Share Image
Your child is never not your child. You can be 90 and your mother 120, but your mother is still worried about you. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I know of only a few truisms, one being [that] if your parents didn't have children, you won't have children. Another is… — Bill Starr Copy Share Image
When you're 17 and you have an idea, people don't really listen to you. I came out of an environment where my… — Robyn Copy Share Image
Our merciful Father has no pleasure in the sufferings of His children; He chastens them in love; He never inflicts a stroke… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Just because you give birth to a child doesn't make you a mother! Being a mother means taking care of your kids,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You could use a moth like that as a symbol in a novel, but it was trite, wasn’t it? The old moth-to-the-flame… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
“Thither daily, and oftentimes a day, generally after each meal, we saw our father retire, and "shut to the door"; and we… — John Gibson Paton Copy Share Image
“The name given me by my mother was, "Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey." I, however, had dispensed with the two middle names long… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“I am half inclined to think we are all ghosts…it is not only what we have inherited from our fathers and mothers… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“Josh unsheathed the sword he had brought from his home, and Pen drew his sword which he had yet to use from… — Benedict Fetsch Copy Share Image
Bad parents ALWAYS put themselves first before their kids. Good parents realize the kids come first, but once in awhile Mommy and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I… — Zlatan Ibrahimovic Copy Share Image
“From this era on, I think invention will be the parent of necessity – and not the other way around.’ That was… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
~Wyatt [my adopted son] is definitely all mine. Little souls find their way to you whether they're from your womb or someone… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
“Many of our elected officials have virtually handed the keys to our schools over to corporate interests. Presidential commissions on education are… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
“Who rides so late through the night and wind? It's the father with his child; J.W. Goethe, Erlkönig/Erlking” — augelicht Copy Share Image
My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer. — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
I am convinced, that when a man tells a woman he loves her, he only means that he desires her; and that… — Enzo Ferrari Copy Share Image
Parents and kids know they should pass up the fries for an apple and exchange the video game for a game of… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter that nobody sees your face or knows your name, my wide eyed child, my father said to me. You… — Patricia Raybon Copy Share Image
My father had an amazing legacy, and so does my mother. I wanted to be able to have both names there. In… — Evan Ross Copy Share Image
I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
I have real good parents. I have two brothers, and we got good educations. My parents didn't have a whole lot of… — Ryan Coogler Copy Share Image
There were, of course, ups and downs. But whenever my parents were knocked down, in business or anything else, they picked themselves… — Sajid Javid Copy Share Image
When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem. — Robin Roberts Copy Share Image
My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
My mother fiercely valued education. She entered college the same year I did, in 1979, and graduated eight years later. She was… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up with my parents watching the phone and not talking to me because they were locked on the phone. — Lauri Markkanen Copy Share Image
After all, I'm religious, and if my mother knew I was performing in the nude, she would have had a heart attack. — Blaze Starr Copy Share Image
“When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.” — Martha Moody Copy Share Image
I was never given a trial. I never went before any magistrate, nor did my parents. To this day, I do not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She wanted to protect us from worry, from sadness, from loneliness--things her parents had not been able to protect her from. (About… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
Being able to inspire my kid with what I'm doing now, it's going to help him succeed in the future, and that's… — Jessica McDonald Copy Share Image