“He may be your grandson, but he’s my son,” she said, and then added, “Jake’s and mine.” “Listen to me, Annie. Your… — Rayven T. Hill Copy Share Image
The Greatest thing about life is how much u love and care about god, and how much u respect ur parents and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why would anyone make a hard decision again? What if we had immediate recall of every teacher, every preacher? What if kids… — Bill Clinton Copy Share Image
My parents, they gave me everything. They taught me how to work hard. They taught me how to be a good Catholic.… — Joanna Jedrzejczyk Copy Share Image
My father was a Victorian product. He didn't marry until he was over 40. I knew him more as a grandfather than… — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“cultivation of a willingness to defy, debunk, or just plain old disappoint one’s parents, that is the absolute precondition, now more than… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming… — Judy Gold Copy Share Image
It's wrenching enough to lose the man who is your lover, your companion, your best friend, the father of your children, without… — Lynn Caine Copy Share Image
As an actor ages north of 60, he tends to be in more father roles than anything else. It's generational. And it… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
In the '50s you had to wear pink ribbons if you were a girl, and you were supposed to become a hairdresser… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Children left their old parents at home and scattered in all directions in search of money. It was hard on an old… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
“He leaned toward her father. “ ’Tis true, I am a murderer, a liar, and a thief. ’Tis equally true that I… — Elizabeth Elliott Copy Share Image
You have pretty much the same fan base in Memphis, year over year the same group. We watched teenagers in the stands… — Marc Gasol Copy Share Image
Verily has man freewill to control his actions. That my Father-Mother has given to man as his inheritance. But the control of… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“My parents didn't raise me to ask God for blessings or benefits. For guidance, yes. For the strength to do the right… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Awakening your spiritual self is like having a second childhood with faulty parents, broken bones and proverbial brussel sprouts.” — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my… — Manfred von Richthofen Copy Share Image
More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You should hear what my parents wanted to call me. It was between Brown Rice, Neon Hitch and Z. Ziggurat Zanzibar Zandorf.… — Neon Hitch Copy Share Image
Football, for me, wasn't a foregone conclusion. My parents didn't force me into it, and quite the opposite happened. — Chris Long Copy Share Image
Don't get upset when you see your ex with another girl because when you were little your parents told you to give… — Tamika-leeigh Copy Share Image
They were too young to be proper parents. They never said, 'You've got to go to bed or you'll be tired for… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
“All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn’t a tragedy, but you need a hell of a sense of humour to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I understand the sensitivities of grown children with little ones of their own!! They'll turn away a mother full of advice, but… — Cathy Guisewite Copy Share Image
Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
This weird pressure that mothers are put under, like this idea that if you can't breastfeed, you're not doing something properly, or… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Saint Melor’s father was Saint Meliau.” “Was everyone in Bertaèyn a saint, back in the day?” “Everyone who didn’t murder anyone, maybe,”… — Merrie Haskell Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
Dancing has always been my passion and it was my parents - Kasim and my mother Ramla Beevi's encouragement and support that… — Shamna Kasim Copy Share Image
The money thing is, the sort of Elvis Presley thing of buying you mother car is great, that's very good. My mother… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school -… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image
There was no room in God's army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother or father, sister or… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Why shall we talk? To spread positive ambiance in the house, and to stimulate the hearty feelings, and to achieve a perceptible… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image
“Funny how being a grown-up didn’t make you any less glad to have a mom on the scene. Whether it was your… — Dani Harper Copy Share Image
There was a time in my life that my mother told me that they didn't know whether they were going to send… — Ellen Greene Copy Share Image
Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her… — Thiruvalluvar Copy Share Image
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image