Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared… — Martha Finley Copy Share Image
My parents are psychologists. My father is a specialist with schizophrenia and my mother works with mostly children. — Mikey Madison Copy Share Image
“Mother Teresa diagnosed the world's ills in this way: we've just "forgotten that we belong to each other." Kinship is what happens… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she… — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
“mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t supposed to be this way. I was conducting research, determining whether I’d be truly content as a spinster.” “You wouldn’t… — Christi Caldwell Copy Share Image
Colleges [have] forfeited the responsibilities of in loco parentis and have gone into the pimping and brothel business. — Vigen Guroian Copy Share Image
“You kids might think you’re close, but just wait until your father and I are gone, and you’re left to divide up… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“My father says--used to say-- that there is power in self-sacrifice. I turn the gun in my hands and press it into… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
If you work at an insurance company that sells premiums you wouldn't even sell to your mother, how happy would you feel… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
My mother gave me an Oscar de la Renta Gone with the Wind ballgown dress. I've never had a place to wear… — Elizabeth Jagger Copy Share Image
Some of these parents out here need to start raising their kids right. A mother should not have a daughter and be… — Deshawn Branch Copy Share Image
“Love is not an equation, as your father once wanted me to believe. It's not a contract, and it's not a happy… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I don’t think you do,’ said Father Brown, with simplicity. ‘You say this thing was done by spiritual powers. What spiritual powers?… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Abhed, my father had called heredity-"indivisible." There is an old trope in popular culture of the "crazy genius," a mind split between… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that,… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to secure freedom and equality of… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
My mother and her five sisters have always been living examples of the great love that can exist among sisters - and… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I grew up in Boston, and in my adolescence your parents are trying to send you to like 'better' schools and a… — Ayo Edebiri Copy Share Image
“When I was little I would always stand in front of a mirror and cross my eyes. Then my mother would come… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
My mother is caring and selfless, and really looks after me. When I'm touring, she still picks me up from the airport,… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I feel I grew up with three parents. My stepmother also showed me a career in the arts was possible. When she… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
There is no way that my mother hasn't influenced my career. She's my first critic. She's my best critic. She has the… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“His Spirit, and it works on this principle—God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
I am very much an only child, meaning I am self-reliant, egocentric, sociable. I had my mother, father, and an uncle who… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, such a one is a stranger to the Godhead. — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
I had a dream as a young boy to be Olympic champion in boxing, and that's what I focused on with my… — Vasyl Lomachenko Copy Share Image
“How could this happen? some of our parents asked us near the end. We knew what they were really asking, and some… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“The mother sensed her daughter's animal superiority and instinctively condemned it out of hand, the unforgettable depth of her fucking, her way… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“Oh, my darling, you’re not dumb,” her father answered. “You’re like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
My father was a big Bruce Lee fan. He's Chinese-Hawaiian, and my mother is Chinese. He used to take us to all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
Ben Cartwright was patterned after my father, who never saw 'Bonanza.' In that sense, my father will live for a long time. — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
We have now clearly shown that God the Father had a plurality of wives, one or more being in eternity, by whom… — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image