My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone.… — Flea Copy Share Image
I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them. I have… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd have been able to be what I am if it wasn't for my mother. I started in the… — Amrita Rao Copy Share Image
Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I was hearing the fundamentals of playing the piano, what notes are, and… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
“They hang people for murder, and while I didn't exactly like Mummy, she was my mother after all. Though do they hang… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child. — Edward Zigler Copy Share Image
The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Mother India has 250 crore arms, majority of which are of the youth, who have the capacity to fulfil India's dreams! — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
“I am ashamed to say this, but as a child, neither my parents not my teachers pushed me to read. In fact,… — Daniel Whyte III Copy Share Image
It's true my father abused me and didn't love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Recognizing that family self-sufficiency is a false myth, we also need to acknowledge that all today's families need help in raising children.… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
“Even people who no longer "believe in God" or participate in the institutional structure of patriarchal religion still may not be free… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child… Leave his sensibilities, his emotions,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I know this is insane, but i somehow wish i had been in auschwitz with my parents so i could really know… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
I grew up thinking of myself as an American but also, because of my parents and the Iranian culture that was in… — Hooman Majd Copy Share Image
Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery. — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
My father once told me, and it's stuck with me to this day: As you walk through life, every time you fart… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
Philanthropy has always been something that I've been kind of interested in because I think it was instilled at a very young… — Serinda Swan Copy Share Image
To have my fan club. I am very proud of doing everything. I try to support my parents, friends and fans. I… — Chris Burke Copy Share Image
I'd promised my parents that I'd go to college, take the time to grow up a bit, and experience something different before… — Rotimi Copy Share Image
Mother calls up the stairs to ask what in the world I'm typing up there all day and I holler down, 'Just… — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
The sassy black woman who can land a good joke was sort of my go-to audition. Or playing a struggling mother. — Danielle Brooks Copy Share Image
My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on… — Amanda Eliasch Copy Share Image
My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped… — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
“If you wanna pass on a ritual to your children, pass on the ritual of helping - if you wanna pass on… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It's weird; my fascination with tech was kind of combined with the fact that my parents would never pay for anything. It… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents. — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day. — Alexandra Guarnaschelli Copy Share Image
My father happened to be a doctor, and though I loved and idealized him privately, professionally I never had any use for… — Rudolph Valentino Copy Share Image
My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
~Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it's just as important to sit down and… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
My mother always said, if you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all... And Then I signed-up for Facebook! — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead… — Yasmina Reza Copy Share Image
I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
My parents gave me stability and a belief in myself and in all the possibilities life has to offer. I was told… — Dionne Warwick Copy Share Image
...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net. — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
“It was what her mother had always been. A place to put down her heart. A resting stop to recover her breath.… — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
In truth, I was desperate to leave New York. And Moscow was a special place for me. It was the city where… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
