“At first we tried to keep up, but soon we were tired of boiling and pickling and deviling, and my mother started… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
Earth, Ashes to ashes and dust to dust in mother earth we place our trust and as we cycle through our years… — Nancy Holder Copy Share Image
I didn't know music either, but I became a composer. Acting too is like that. It's like cooking for your siblings when… — Vijay Antony Copy Share Image
Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
“My father, she insisted, was not born deaf. “Insisted” because there was an even greater stigma attached to genetic deafness (and the… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney. — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
“I thought that was pretty good. So then I disturbed my father at his typewriter, and asked him what my heritage was… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
You have to work at becoming a better husband, a better father, a better brother and a better son, because I understand… — Marlon Vera Copy Share Image
“Arthur shook his head. "You'd be an appalling mother, Morgana. You're a terrible example, you know," he said, handing her the bottle.… — FayJay Copy Share Image
“forever. I would never not be Princess Leia. I had no idea how profoundly true that was and how long forever was.… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
My parents instilled a really good work ethic from when I was little - if you want to have money to spend… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
“The wrath of God is never an evil wrath. God gets angry because he loves people like a mother would love her… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“For instance, we were always making mistakes with the unfamiliar products around us, and one time my mother squirted my perfume into… — Yeonmi Park Copy Share Image
“Intentionally or involuntarily, your earthly and spiritual fathers will lead you the perfect Father. You might not recognize it, but even when… — Carlos A. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Critical to my understanding of myself was that my parents may have been storytellers, but I was the writer in my family,… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
My father when I was a kid was so deeply involved with Native Americans, he used to bring home these extraordinary headdresses… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
Many benefit cuts hit single parents hardest and punish children by forcing their families into destitution. — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
“And yet," said Anne, very softly, "you wouldn't want it to stop hurting . . . you wouldn't want to forget your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We stacking chips like Frito Lay, flexing on these mother fuckers. I walk in the building and I'm fresher than a motherfucker. — Meek Mill Copy Share Image
I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
My mother is my greatest inspiration. She was an amazing mother and was very glamorous. My other inspirations include Audrey Hepburn and… — Kathy Hilton Copy Share Image
God, as a loving father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: It makes music only… — Unkown Copy Share Image
To get me in to the Army underage, my mother signed me in saying that my birth certificate was lost in a… — Robert Downey Sr Copy Share Image
“… human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life… — Erich Auerbach Copy Share Image
As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where… — Dee Bradley Baker Copy Share Image
My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn't have a perfect report card, she showed… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
The father who loves his children will not substitute toys for time, replace commendation with condemnation but will be their teacher not… — R Robert Flatt Copy Share Image
The smartest person in the United States Senate, and he knows it, is John Sununu. Thank God he had his mother's temperament. — John McCain Copy Share Image
Both of my parents were both multi-sport athletes. Their mindset was, be an athlete as long as possible, up until they became… — Jessica McDonald Copy Share Image
Will we have bodyguards?" "We're not quite set up for that. But with all these mothers, you don't need them. — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
My father was bigger than life, an entity and everyone expected us, as his offspring, to be saintettes, these little carbon copies. — Yolanda King Copy Share Image
I do think having a mother as a nurse who's a very kind of compass - , she's so compassionate and she… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
“as a child i used to complain to my father about not having toys and he would say (calvero points at his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father is my father, and I am me. I have the advantage of this honest comparison, quiet, and the opportunity to… — Adriano Giannini Copy Share Image
After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and… — Sandra Dallas Copy Share Image
“You know how to tail people?" I asked. My mother shrugged and kept her mouth shut, but her devilish smile said everything.” — Kirsten Miller Copy Share Image
I was musically baptized by the black founding fathers of rock-and-roll, and like all real music lovers, the music changed, enriched, upgraded… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image