Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary. — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
I love to sing. I never had any formal training. My mother is a singer, and I picked up listening to her. — Nimrat Kaur Copy Share Image
In his 70s, when I was in my 40s, my father still read me the stories he wrote about his childhood. His… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career. — Abigail Washburn Copy Share Image
“Dear Father, thank You for Scripture that guides, inspires, consoles, heals, and feeds the spiritually hungry. Amen. —Scott Walker” — Guideposts Copy Share Image
My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My father was a man very much like Arthur Winslow. He was a very stern man and very much the authoritarian figure. — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
God is nearer to us than any man at every time. He is nearer to me than my raiment, nearer than the… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
“the first and only begotten of God which was before every creature and creation visible and invisible, the commander-in-chief of the rational… — Eusebius of Caesarea Copy Share Image
“We share so much every day, spend so much time together, that it's sometimes difficult to see all the little pieces of… — Andrea Richesin Copy Share Image
“Maybe I was crazy to consider it, but I’d always hoped that if I were a good enough girl, if I did… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“My father, Philip Van Doren Stern, was shaving on Saturday morning, February 12, 1938, while he explored the idea for the story… — Philip Van Doren Stern Copy Share Image
“I usually enjoy setting up a new kitchen, but this has become a joyless and highly charged task. My mother and I… — Katie Hafner Copy Share Image
I get on all right with my parents. But I don't see them very much. They split up when I was eight.… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key,… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, and they were getting ready for a life of unemployment, so they're… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
“For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do… — Alan Robertson Copy Share Image
They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
The people who have given me shit, I say, like my mother, what did she say?- she said, ‘Go to hell, and… — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
When a baby is born, it's a mothers instinct to protect the baby. When a baby dies, it's the mothers instinct to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
“...I imagined that I was about to see Ariana, and my mother, and my father, and to tell them how very, very… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
My parents divorced when I was 10, but when my father was there, he was trying to create almost like a little… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
A heartbreak isnt always as loud as a bomb exploding. Sometimes it can be as quiet as a feather falling, and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
“If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot [...]” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
When I was 15, I was not living with my parents anymore. They were on an island in the Caribbean and I… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter. — Don Williams Copy Share Image
Years later, when I asked my father, I said 'Pop, why were you so much harder on me than my younger brothers?'… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
I'm always responsible and a father, you want the best for your children. You push hard. You have to teach him things… — Jos Verstappen Copy Share Image
My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
My father was convinced that America was the greatest place in the world. I'm afraid I didn't have the family I would… — William Klein Copy Share Image
Pochettino is a really good person outside football as well as in football. He's like a father figure, always speaking with everyone… — Victor Wanyama Copy Share Image
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Parenting in the age of mobile communication really does allow us to be there for our kids in a way never before… — Susan Maushart Copy Share Image
My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best:… — Steve Schirripa Copy Share Image
I've always referred to my father as 'my coach' because we were always able to separate our relationship into the roles of… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
“Parenting has no guide book; we come to it with what came at us. It's only the conscious mind that can shift… — Katey Sagal Copy Share Image
![“Alan [Lomax] and his father started off changing the definition of folk music from something ancient and anonymous to something very contemporary.” quote by Pete Seeger](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/bfc/pete-seeger-1942_ancient_alan-lomax-and-his-father-started-off-ch_1485534.png)
![“If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot [...]” quote by Mary Wollstonecraft](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/f78/mary-wollstonecraft-1568_children_if-children-are-to-be-educated-to-unders_78752.png)
