My father was a very strong male figure to me as a child. He was very dashing, had a wonderful sense of… — Mariette Hartley Copy Share Image
“My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Mother Nature," he murdered half aloud and grinned, "we think of her as a benevolent old lady. Maybe instead she's the wantonest… — Harold Sinclair Copy Share Image
What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
It's impossible to know who Donald might have been under different circumstances and with different parents. — Mary L. Trump Copy Share Image
I'm a Brazilian - full blood, parents born and raised, and I lived there for a little bit - but I didn't… — Camila Mendes Copy Share Image
“Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody… — America Ferrera Copy Share Image
“Why, that is nothing: for I tell you, father, I am as peremptory as she proud-minded; And where two raging fires meet… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
“Still, this moment belongs to the two of them, Mom and this handsome stranger. He reaches the passenger side door and stares… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I remember getting notified that I won an award, and I gloated up a storm to my mother, and I was so… — Lindsay Mendez Copy Share Image
I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all --… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I have always let my heart rule my head, but if I could rewind and start afresh I would listen to my… — Zeenat Aman Copy Share Image
Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The God has taken away the right of motherhood, The saying to sterile could not hail his heart wants to become a… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a… — William Ames Copy Share Image
God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers--he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
“I'm an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand… — Sarah Thornton Copy Share Image
My father had his demons; our relationship was difficult and fractured. But I don't ever think, 'Poor me,' I just feel blessed… — Stacey Dooley Copy Share Image
Like any good parent you are trying to get the kid in a position where he is stronger and more powerful, and… — Timothy Olyphant Copy Share Image
You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to… — Leslie Nielsen Copy Share Image
My parents came a long time ago to Vienna, met in Vienna. Of course they had to go through a lot also,… — David Alaba Copy Share Image
When my mother and I walked to the grocery store, men would circle the block in cars. It was very, very scary,… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
“My parents wanted their daughter back, and I haven't had the courage to tell them she's long gone. Haven't found a way… — Charlie Donlea Copy Share Image
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
When I came out to my parents, I knew that they knew. My father was like, 'Are you sure?' I literally said,… — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
The real mother is not like when the woman pregnant and they have theyself called mom. When you take care with you… — Nini Win Copy Share Image
As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time… — Cindy Crawford Copy Share Image
I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child. — Dogen Copy Share Image
Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
