Part of the thrill of guiding children into adulthood is the release. But it's also a parent's greatest act of surrender. Still,… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
“No, don't draw away from me. Whatever else I am, I am your son - your most wretched son. If you do… — Rosemary Sutcliff - Sword at Sunset Copy Share Image
I've heard that my father was a really funny man in company, but I never got to see that side of him.… — Michael McIntyre Copy Share Image
A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live,… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Regardless of who your parents are, where you come from, or what you look like, you can embrace your flaws and be… — Alexa Ray Joel Copy Share Image
I always saw two sides of life. I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
A woman plays many roles in her life. She is a daughter, a wife and a mother. Every woman obviously wants to… — Anne Nwakama Copy Share Image
We are daughters of our Heavenly Father. We are covenant-making women of all ages walking the path of mortality back to His… — Rosemary M. Wixom Copy Share Image
My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
“Women are like trees, growing slowly over time. So many rings creating layers of maturity as their branches spread and reach out… — P.R. Newton Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
“Or perhaps, despite your brave words to my parents, you've forgotten what love and loyalty look like. They aren't sacraments, Jane, for… — Meredith Duran Copy Share Image
“They looked more like sisters than mother and daughter, and I wondered if believing in Jesus kept you younger-looking. But then I… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
It was the first fight I had with my father. My father basically said, why are you going to business school? You're… — Diana Taylor Copy Share Image
I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There's so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was 'Help!' by the Beatles… — Finn Wolfhard Copy Share Image
If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“Everything about her shredded my heart because she reminded me too much of my mother, and she reminded me too much of… — Jessica Park Copy Share Image
“I want to go to the mother, take her hand, and tell her that although she and her daughter believe that every… — Sarah Bird Copy Share Image
My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art… — Cher Copy Share Image
My mother's white, and she didn't know how to do my hair, so I had something that I always call white-mama hair. — Jami Floyd Copy Share Image
To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For,… — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
“I've internalized my father- his impatience, his perfectionism, his rage. I no longer need my father to torture me. From this day… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
My parents are both massive feminists and always led me to believe that I could dream big and do anything that I… — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
I conveniently forgot to remember that people only have two hands, or, as another parent once said of having a third child,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I now have an erection that is probably tall enough to ride some of the scarier rides at Great America without a… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
The hardest part of being a mother is watching your children grow up, knowing there is nothing you can do about it… — Brii Ann Copy Share Image
My father was a big influence. He kept telling me to pursue football, always. He always encouraged me and my brother. — Riyad Mahrez Copy Share Image
“I don't know what sort of occasion I was waiting for...because everyday was a special occasion with your father.” — Donna VanLiere Copy Share Image
I think many parents who are not on tax credits have to make difficult decisions about how many kids they can have… — Liz Kendall Copy Share Image
No, Harry, it wasn't him! Somebody did betray your parents, but it was somebody who, until quite recently, I believed to be… — Remus Lupin Copy Share Image
It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Consistency also teaches us that some things do not change, though we may wish they would. Not everything bends to our personal… — Kim John Payne Copy Share Image
“Whenever his father’s eyes were on him, he became uncomfortably aware of all his deformities and shortcomings.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
My mother, religious-negro, proud of Having waded through a storm, is, very obviously, A sturdy Black bridge that I Crossed over, on. — Carolyn Rodgers Copy Share Image
It's much better being an older father. You don't have to go prove to the world and to yourself that you're who… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
I inherited the voice from my father, who was a minister. He taught me to speak clearly from babyhood, and probably it… — Agnes Moorehead Copy Share Image
99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
If parents know how many times others are finding lice on their kids' heads, maybe other parents will not hide their own… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
