A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father… — Frank Howard Clark Copy Share Image
Being a member of the labor force and a full-time parent means trying to manage against overwhelming odds in an unresponsive society. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
I actually think 'Sex and the City' helped share how complicated it all is, to be a wife, a mother, and working,… — Kim Cattrall Copy Share Image
“He was the child of a father who was not his father; but also the child of a time which damaged reality… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my parents are different.… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
I'm a starving third world mother. A refugee without a home. I'm a house wife hooked on Valium. I'm a Pensioner alone. — Ub40 Copy Share Image
When both my parents were unwell I was in that situation that will be very familiar to many women. I had young… — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
“Father’s eyes, like fragments of ice, studied Darkstalker’s every scale, and Darkstalker could feel the cold, congealing weight of Father’s resentment. “He… — Tui T. Sutherland Copy Share Image
I'm always conscious of the fact that a book starts, basically, with a kid in a lap, and a parent reading to… — Jon J Muth Copy Share Image
My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While… — Bernie Taupin Copy Share Image
We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have married into the family, and… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“Wordlessly, Deniz gave her mother a sidelong glance, her incredulity apparent. For the first time it crossed her mind that the woman… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“An Rh negative mother’s blood is said to be “sensitized” when this process has taken place. Procedures such as amniocentesis, aggressive external… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
“Tillie studied her mother’s face. The face which had seen thirty-seven years of life. Twenty-one years of marriage. The birth of ten… — Deeanne Gist Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful thing in this world is to see your parents smiling, and knowing that your the reason behind that smile” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one.… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“I agree not to expect anything from Mother or you, but I do want to buy Undine and Sintran for myself. I've… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I always say I stumbled on the information about the poison in Hinkley's drinking water because I was sort of stumbling about… — Erin Brockovich Copy Share Image
“The wretchedness of a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a young girl, the wretchedness of an… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I used to live in Rajouri Garden. I was a shy child, dutiful to parents, serious in studies but happier on the… — Priyanshu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present -… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
L0ve hurts, boys lie, frienda cry, people die, parents yell, you always try, ur never good enough and u dont know why — 13 Yearold Copy Share Image
“that her parents might get killed on such a dangerous trip. The dragon fire could burn anything except stone. Everything else burned,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
What you don't realize as a kid is that if your parents are always going to be there for you, they aren't… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“I wanted to be respected and to be loved. I longed for a man, like my father, to come and take me… — Nicci Greene Copy Share Image
I feel a little bit like a drill sergeant sometimes. Some elements of my personality, as a parent, I'm not real crazy… — Chip Gaines Copy Share Image
I was never really angry, but I was definitely protective, and I was definitely sad in a lot of ways. Because, as… — Rich Paul Copy Share Image
I got my bearings, I began to focus. My mother was very supportive. When I came back to New York I landed… — Angie Martinez Copy Share Image
Our philosophy is always to search for the best quality. That is something our father taught us. It's one way to be… — Pier Luigi Loro Piana Copy Share Image
“We need grandchildren here,” Pete’s mother said to me when we visited. “You don’t get married just to eat and fart.” — Abigal Muchecheti Copy Share Image
I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I have never behaved like a star kid, and since a lot of people in the Tamil and Malayalam film industries know… — Keerthy Suresh Copy Share Image
I never really knew about my ancestors until this year, when I learned that the name Cobain was Irish. My parents had… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
An atmosphere of trust, love, and humor can nourish extraordinary human capacity. One key is authenticity: parents acting as people, not as… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
