We lived on a farm outside a town of about 900 people. My father was the principal of the elementary school. It… — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art. — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
I hate my jaw. I don't know if it's my dad's - I think I'm more like my mother, my littlest sister… — Rumer Willis Copy Share Image
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
My father, my mother, and then my father was always on top of me - 'Keep your nose clean. Do you love… — Paul Anka Copy Share Image
One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because... we perceive anyone else who's… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I was very good in school, and my parents really would have really liked me to go to college. Instead, I went… — Daniel Bryan Copy Share Image
When I look in the mirror, I also see a mother and a wife and someone I am proud to be. I… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
“Maybe I'd absorbed the capacity to hurt someone by listening to my parents every night, who were under the impression that turning… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
I know it was a gift from God. My father was a preacher and my mother worked in churches all her life.… — Darlene Love Copy Share Image
Don't thank your parents. If you were raised in a nurturing environment, you wouldn't be in show business. Don't say, 'Wow, this… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Although my father's mother, Nancy, has dementia, and her experiences gave me ideas for some of the scenes in the book, it… — Emma Healey Copy Share Image
“The man she had loved as a father was a fraud. He kissed the back of her hands and advocated war; he… — Anne Blankman Copy Share Image
The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Sure, I fear earthly oblivion. But, I mean, not to sound like my parents, but I believe humans have souls, and I… — John Green Copy Share Image
One of the cardinal sins in our country is profanity -- the taking of the name of the Lord in vain. Reverence… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Love between man and woman is unstable, but the beautiful love that springs from companionship of children and parents lasts until the… — R.L. Alsaker Copy Share Image
“If, because of my schooling, I had grown culturally separated from my parents, my education finally had given me ways of speaking… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
My mother can certainly be rough around the edges at times, but she also taught me to have compassion for people who… — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
No one in the world can take the place of your mother. Right or wrong, from her viewpoint you are always right.… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent. — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their… — Elliott Yamin Copy Share Image
My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved… — Peter C. Doherty Copy Share Image
“As far as his father was concerned, “we were informants,” Jonathan said, borrowing a term from anthropology. Dinner conversations could at times… — Ariel Sabar Copy Share Image
“He made a choice, one his father didn't understand or agree with. But he still should have supported it. That's what love… — Andrea Kane Copy Share Image
“She has no mother because fatherblood hates with love and pride, but motherblood with hate loves and cohabits.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
“It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“The only secrets that are good are the ones with an ending. Keep surprises instead of secrets in your home.” — Carolyn Byers Ruch Copy Share Image
I grew up with both my parents around me at all times, but my kids are not knowing who I am half… — Boo Weekley Copy Share Image
I came to America when I was six. In true African form, my parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer… — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in… — Kangna Ranaut Copy Share Image
Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
I've always taken pride to be the white guy that can talk to the black people, that can refer to them truly… — Duane Chapman Copy Share Image
My parents' generation grew up high on the Arab nationalism that Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser brandished in the 1950s. — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
It is not enough to merely exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to live and support my family. I… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years. — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
“intentions don’t matter in parenting. Kids don’t understand what you mean. They understand what you do.” — Lisa Gardner Copy Share Image
This isn't your world. It's your parents. Your world is still out there, waiting to be discovered. Always remember that. — Carroll Bryant Copy Share Image
