“Mother hold you. May you pass through the gates; may you smell that immortal land of milk and honey. Fear no evil.… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Marital psychological abuse suffered by a parent can never be understood by disrespectful, ungrateful, growing, biased, brainwashed children.” — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
As a mother in the 1950s, she did not impose the same strict religious routine on myself and my brother, Mark, though… — Carol Thatcher Copy Share Image
People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for… — Birch Bayh Copy Share Image
Even my going back to school was to inspire young people that it's never too late to education. That's all I can… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
“Her mother had told her the mortal world was pocked with memorials and monuments to loss. They build with steel and stone… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, you'd get people going: 'Oh, we should make 'Mother' into an opera, it's what… — Goldie Copy Share Image
Remember that the task of a single mom is not a joke. It is very difficult for children to be raised by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...I had been with my father so constantly for so long that I knew less and less about him with every passing… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“I don’t really care if their parents are same sex, lesbian or gay, straight, married, cohabitating, divorced, bi-racial or what. If they… — Teresa Reasor Copy Share Image
“We'd hoped vaguely to fall in love but hadn't worried much about it, because we'd thought we had all the time in… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
“(pg.31) "As it was, my first days on Earth were somewhat anticlimactic. Mother and Father seemed so happy tempting and corrupting that… — George Pendle Copy Share Image
My parents were wonderful Christians. They were religious, but they were not fanatical in any way. I was the one who took… — Maggie Rowe Copy Share Image
It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
“He was the measure of the failure of his father's body, and also perhaps a portending of the failure of his own.~” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I had never come across a talking cat before, but good manners, as my father used to say, cost nothing.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I'm lucky; my parents have never said to me, "You're a kid, so you just don't know." They say, "How can we… — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
My parents were artists, so my salvation was to make pretty things - and ultimately delicious things at the same time. — Ron Ben-Israel Copy Share Image
I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
It's hard losing a parent, especially dad because he was always behind me. It was his dream and my dream for me… — Riyad Mahrez Copy Share Image
My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
“But his mother was an old-school Mexicana, convinced that the greatest troubles of the world could be fixed with food bribes,” — Melissa F. Olson Copy Share Image
There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
I am thankful to my parents for letting me pursue music as a career. No one in my family is a musician,… — Neeti Mohan Copy Share Image
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an… — Marcelene Cox Copy Share Image
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths,… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
In my head: YOU! It's all you! Marry me! Kiss me! Hold me! Be the father of my children!!! On the outside:… — Alla Copy Share Image
“Some of the mothers looked overwhelmed - they were no longer accustomed to supervising their own kids in a normal, day-to-day way.” — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“Intrigue feeds on itself; conspiracies have neither mother nor father, and yet they thrive: the only thing to know is that no… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
We are not heading for an eternal void and an eternal silence but we are on our way to an encounter, an… — Raniero Cantalamessa Copy Share Image
Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
“At some point we all play by the rules, whether it's the rules of all mankind, the rules of Father who is… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image