Turn up the TV. No one listening will suspect, even your mother won't detect it, no your father won't know. they think… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes.” — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My father was a physicist, while I am a biogeochemist. I live to study plants, and he has never had more than… — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
DAUGHTER what is marriage: MOM: Marriage is just a fancy word for adopting an overgrown male child who cannot be handled by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it.… — Linda Blair Copy Share Image
When you're inside and you have no control and when you're the 14-year-old version of Frances Farmer, you know, you have reasons… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
“Miss Manette!' The young lady, to whom all eyes had been turned before, and were now turned again, stood up where she… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum,… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“Caleb came to his mother's side and helped her to her feet. "Besides, if you rest, then I am free to make… — Christina Dodd Copy Share Image
Most people’s major life regrets are not about the things they’ve done, but about the things they’ve not done, the goals they… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
In Ehrenfeld, we were all jammed together. All the fathers were foreign-born - Welsh, Irish, Polish, Sicilian. We were so jammed together,… — Charles Bronson Copy Share Image
“He did not know it, but Arwen Undómiel was also there, dwelling again for a time with the kin of her mother.… — Tolkien, J.R.R Copy Share Image
I was exposed to nature by my mother who loved camping, so I always enjoyed the outdoors and that has been a… — Paul Walker Copy Share Image
In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“My father's answer was revenge-has always been revenge-and the outcome was just, but not better. Nothing is fixed.” — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
Supernanny' was a format that was geared toward parents who had troublesome kids and didn't know how to cope with their behavior. — Jo Frost Copy Share Image
Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see… — Eric Shanteau Copy Share Image
My mother made me take piano lessons, and because I am her oldest and she had not yet been worn down by… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
“Charlie can't keep you from visiting your mother. She still has primary custody.' 'Nobody has custody of me. I'm an adult.' He… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“If I measure each day by my list, the days are not always very good, but when I look at each day… — Ashlee Gadd Copy Share Image
My parents gave everything. They sacrificed, they went to work. Sometimes they worked 24 hours, so they called friends to help us.… — Willian Copy Share Image
Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“He doesn’t have sex with sheep—he sleeps with scapegoats. He is my father, and I haven’t seen him since before I was… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I was born in a council house, my father left school at the age of 11, had his teeth out without anaesthetic… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
“MOTHER TERESA: Boy, one must participate in one’s own salvation. In order to hear, one must be willing to listen.” — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
It makes you grateful, it makes you humble that you have the opportunity to be a father and be there for your… — Tyrann Mathieu Copy Share Image
“Damen was breathing hard, his hands clenched into fists. How dare you talk that way about my father. The words were on… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on. — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over -… — Johnny Galecki Copy Share Image
I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
“... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“She did not get a medal - it was not fair. 'What a swizz,' she whispered bitterly to her mother as Cicely… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs. — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
