From childhood, I had been instructed in the tablaa by my father, along with the astaais and antaraas specific to our Gharana. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Copy Share Image
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents - you're perpetually a child and they're perpetually a parent and you long… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
And as for baby-boomer parents cluck-clucking about illegal substances, ah, gimme a break. Still, I think I'll pass on the rave. But… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
I had no relationship with my father. He was never around. I met him when I was a sophomore in college. I… — Ben Wallace Copy Share Image
“Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The purest love is the one between parents and their children. The rest may be more elevated, but never as deep or… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
I am sure that all people know deep down inside that the little child in the mother's womb is a human being… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It's not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“There aren´t always good reasons for a child´s emotions, or easy solutions for them, but by at least acknowledging them and trying… — Iben Dissing Sandahl Copy Share Image
Jesus loved everyone, but he loved children most of all. Today we know that unborn children are the targets of destruction. We… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
My mother was really young when she had me, so she was a horrible cook, but we lived with my grandmother, who… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
“If a father shows his daughter love, respect, and appreciation for who she is, she will believe that about herself as a… — Rick Johnson Copy Share Image
“Ferbin's father had had the same robustly pragmatic view of religion as he’d had of everything else. In his opinion, only the… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
“It’s not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their… — Daffodil Campbell Copy Share Image
Once my mother angrily asked me to go to hell ,i took it as a joke but the day she left this… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
My first introduction to African music was by my mother, who bought the 'Pata Pata' album by the great Miriam Makeba when… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I seldom remember my father, but I sneeze and rub my nose the way he did. I also love my son with… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
And I've always been paranoid. I can remember as a baby my mother would spin the mobile above my head and thinking..."yeah,… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree. — Keith Murray Copy Share Image
When I was 14, I decided that I really wanted to pursue polo more, so I asked my parents if it would… — Nacho Figueras Copy Share Image
The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
“Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.” — Barbara Delinsky Copy Share Image
Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from… — Al Lewis Copy Share Image
“Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Don't cry. She wouldn't like it. When I missed my father, I used to cry. Mama taught me when I cry, he… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
When I was a fetus, I used to sneak out at night when my mother was sleeping. I figured I should start… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“Scientists talk about how we inherit health issues from our parents through our genes, but we also inherit this entire lineage of… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
Until I was pursuing my collegiate education, I was in Madurai with my parents. Bengaluru was the first place where I was… — Karthik Subbaraj Copy Share Image
I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off… — Les Paul Copy Share Image
My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
When I told my mother that I have to give a talk, and was debating what could I possibly say to non-mathematicians,… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“This was the part where Charlotte, heroine, remembered she was a twenty-first-century woman and a mother. This was Charlotte saying, Hell no!” — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Mitochondrial DNA, which is a sort of abridged version of DNA, is passed directly from mother to child, so it's something that… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
I certainly learned how to break down a text at Princeton, which helps me break down a script - or at least… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Just because we make a lot of money we're supposed to be the bigger person? Fans tell us that our kids are… — Stephen Jackson Copy Share Image
