When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
You may not think I'm a sex symbol, but I became a father at the age of 48. Now young people think… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Having lived so long, I can’t tell the difference between the two political parties. They both sound like broken records that started… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that is the wisdom of life, to tread in your father's steps, and look neither to the right nor to the… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors. — Faye Moskowitz Copy Share Image
“The hole where my heart had finally grown back after the loss of my parents was returning because of the very person… — Cassandra Giovanni Copy Share Image
If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
People at agencies and studios, including the parent boards, might look around the table at the decision-making level and feel something is… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was born in Mumbai. We stayed in a joint family. But in 1994, my father had to shift to Pune for… — Amruta Khanvilkar Copy Share Image
My mother scrubbed other people's floors for a living, and I remember vividly her worrying about being down to the last half… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
“Dylan Caine came over last night and worked with me to strip the walls.” Her stomach tingled again as she remembered that… — RaeAnne Thayne Copy Share Image
I don't think ministering requires a religious context. The number one thing is that every parent is extremely worried about their kid.… — John Green Copy Share Image
“I could imagine his sorrow. My father had a sensual relationship with his books. He loved feeling them, stroking them, sniffing them.… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Actually, I was born in Las Vegas. My parents moved to Utah when I was eight because, after 40 years in Vegas,… — Brandon Flowers Copy Share Image
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
College recruiting is a business and I would really tell parents and athletes, alike, to treat it as such. — Billy Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Mothers who share a bed or use a three-sided cot attached to the bed are far more responsive to their babies than… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“Daughter, be a butterfly. Your father has always had an odd fascination with them. Or rather, be what you dream to be!” — Ayokunle Falomo Copy Share Image
Experiences have clearly shown that an approach which 'de-medicalizes' birth, restores dignity and humanity to the process of childbirth, and returns control… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
My father is a genuinely nice guy and very generous to anybody and everybody. He likes to live life kingsize, and he… — Arjun Kapoor Copy Share Image
“I think your mother loves Leo.” “I don’t know if she loves him enough.” “What would be enough?” “To give up on… — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
No one told me that it would all happen at the same hallowed time: Mothering is at once the hardest and the… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
In 2011, my wife, Courtney, and I, with my amazing mother and sister, opened the Nantz National Alzheimer Center at Houston Methodist Hospital. — Jim Nantz Copy Share Image
People have talked about a biopic on my mother. And I am excited about it. In such a short span, it was… — Prateik Babbar Copy Share Image
Princess Anne is like her father. From her, you'll never hear a complaint of any kind about her upbringing. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
“Force your kids to pursue success and they shall be drowned into the abyss of characterlessness, but let them pursue excellence and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if my parents had me because they loved me, or because they wanted someone to watch their other children. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
“Time grants a unique perspective which allows us to see events through a filter of accumulated wisdom.” — Christopher Earle Copy Share Image
Being a part of the theater community has been important to me from the time I was a child, through my parents. — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was… — John Hume Copy Share Image
I was lucky I was raised by parents who gave me a lot of sense of self and a lot of confidence… — Sprague Grayden Copy Share Image
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I don't think my parents told me enough how the world doesn't really care about me. I think it's important to tell… — James Gray Copy Share Image
A mother who is obsessing about being thin and dieting and exercising is not going to be a very good mother. — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
“I am ashamed she is ashamed. Because she is my daughter and I am proud of her, and I am her mother… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones… — Jami Gertz Copy Share Image
I've always got on better with boys. Most of my friends are boys. Like, if I have children, I want five boys.… — Adele Copy Share Image
