My mother always wanted me to be glamorous. When I thought about that, it really fired me up, and once I lost… — Etta James Copy Share Image
I believe every person has a guardian spirit or angel. They assist us in the transition between life and death and they… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I… — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
I lived with my parents and my older brother in a small, three-bedroom terraced house in Northfield Road, Hull. It was in… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
I grew up in my father's laboratory and played beneath the chemical benches until I was tall enough to play on them. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help. — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
My parents really pushed me to excel in school. Education was always important to them, so it was important to me. — Sunny Hostin Copy Share Image
You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
I was interested in public service, and looking back at my father, my grandfather and two great-grandfathers, well, yeah, that's what they… — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women's Land for what I could only guess would… — Bennett Madison Copy Share Image
My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Had I catalogued the downsides of parenthood, "son might turn out to be a killer" would never have turned up on the… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“But he also knew that there is an inflationary aspect to love, and that should his mother, or Rose, or any of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The world is a challenging place in terms of wars and peace, basic human rights and freedoms. The Holy Father has a… — Chris Smith Copy Share Image
“What is a godly mother? A godly mother is one who loves the Lord her God with all her heart, soul, mind,… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it -… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
Her father didn't have a Nazi past. He was a fascist sympathizer, but Audrey didn't try to keep that a secret. She… — Robert Wolders Copy Share Image
I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well, obviously, because my mom and my dad… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
“Her mother admonished through closed lips, the sound a mother can make mean anything from "pick up your socks" to "we are… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
George Washington, who said to his father, Dad, if I never tell I lie, how am I ever gonna become President? Never… — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Parents do tend to judge each other. I don’t know why. Maybe because none of us really know what we’re doing?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
“every parent will leave a personal legacy (though not all parents will leave behind an inheritance). what i give to my children… — Reggie Joiner Copy Share Image
Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
Until you've looked a parent in the eye and told them their perfect child has a preexisting condition no insurance company will… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
I want people to get from 'Pariah' that it's okay to be you and not to check a box as a parent… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
Here's a bumper sticker I'd like to see... 'We are the Proud Parents of a Child who has resisted his teacher's attempts… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“I was afraid of the sea when I was a girl. Someone said it went on forever and that frightened me. I… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Father, I pray both for those needing a lift from “the pit” and for the lifters, for those needing help and for… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
I grew up mainly in the Far East, where my father worked for the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, which was then… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
“No wonder he was so sweet and accommodating. His mother was like a damn fairy flittering around bringing goodness to the world… — Kate Roth Copy Share Image