My mother was an English teacher before she became a full-time mom, and a huge proponent of reading, so she made sure… — Matt Wagner Copy Share Image
“Contentment is an asset that we take for granted until we lose it. It's the brother of happiness, the sister of peace… — Joan Marques Copy Share Image
The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
When my father began his work in the 1970s it was a very different EU. I pay tribute to what he did.… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Well, my father was in the Army and we traveled quite a bit when I was growing up, and I thought that… — Marc Garneau Copy Share Image
“Things used to be easy. Flip a switch? On goes the light. Press a button? You’re calling your parents. Swipe a credit… — Summer Lane Copy Share Image
“The world is full of women who have children, and women who don’t, but there is also a silent band of women… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents. — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
“We are being called to a new and deeper passion: to those who live under the shadow of the cross and those… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
When you've got a mother who's given birth to eight children, you know, often without any kind of medical intervention - just… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
My father always wanted his music to reach every single corner of the earth, and some people believe he has. Ummm, no.… — Cedella Marley Copy Share Image
Then Arjuma saw in both armies fathers, grandfathers, sons, grandsons; fathers of wives, uncles, masters; brothers companions and friends. . . .… — Juan Mascaro Copy Share Image
So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge,… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
People are gonna think that MTV censored me, and they really didn't. I really wanted to try to make a show that… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
“The gifts and the lessons my father left me will last forever: Never take yourself too seriously, never miss a chance to… — Anne Serling Copy Share Image
“John Quincy Adams subscribed to the thesis that his mother's generation was unique when he complained to [his wife] that there were… — Cokie Roberts Copy Share Image
My father, Melvin van Peebles, and my mother were both very active politically when I was a kid. The first time I… — Mario Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I want to be a better parent than I had. Even though my mom was absolutely amazing. Her and I are still… — Ashley Graham Copy Share Image
SpongeBob is just made of cellulose, but he has parents who are natural sponges - he got the square gene. — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Mandela is just the eternal man. You want that man to be around forever. It's the closest thing we have to God,… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
“Could it be that the great Bonaparte is incapable of fathering a child? that it is not I who am at fault… — Carolly Erickson Copy Share Image
Don't skip class. Just...don't. No good comes from it. Your parents are paying for it so be considerate. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have… — Gavin Creel Copy Share Image
For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt. — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
My parents were from Punjab, in Pakistan. We had land there which were reallocated after partition. So I belong to that area… — Kirron Kher Copy Share Image
“I am just two and two. I am hot. I am cold. I'm the parent of numbers that cannot be told. I'm… — L.J. Smith Copy Share Image
I was a kid during the height of the Cold War. If I did something wrong, my parents just accused me of… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
We must not allow the federal government to set a precedence of pushing parents out from having a say in their children's… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather,… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“I should like to ask you:--Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you… — Gal Gadot Copy Share Image
“AND WHATEVER YOU DO, WHETHER IN WORD OR DEED, DO IT ALL IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS, GIVING THANKS TO… — Sandra Kristen Moore Copy Share Image
From kindergarten, I knew that politics is something that you talk about only at home, because if you weren't quiet, your parents… — Kersti Kaljulaid Copy Share Image
Someone did once bow to me, and my mother immediately told them off. Although whether she was prompted by the breach of… — David Linley Copy Share Image
Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The First Man is completely autobiographical. The mother [Albert Camus] describes is the woman I knew, and she was exactly as he… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Yes, my father is bald, but I found a way to save my hair. I met with a doctor in Brazil who… — David Luiz Copy Share Image
Flamenco was probably the first music that I may have heard as a baby, because my father played flamenco. — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image