Loving fathers give their children boundaries so they won't get hurt and can live with peace and purpose. — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
“She must have had bad dreams and climbed in with our mother. Of course, she did. This is the day of the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
Mother can't you see I've got to live my life the way I feel is right for me might not be right… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
Not so cold, some snow fell. I went inside the log cabin and said goodbye to Mother, she was so alike grandmother,… — Anders Zorn Copy Share Image
“When I was born I was not a child I was a dream, A dream of revolt That my mother , Oppressed… — Sahil Parmar Copy Share Image
“How often a mother initiated a conversation with her child was not predictive of the language outcomes—what mattered was, if the infant… — Po Bronson Copy Share Image
My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
“You don't even have a cross," he said. His beloved was silent. "You don't even have any candles, no face of Christ,… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
“hope you’re right, Mother, because I don’t care how highly you think of her. If she’s like Cansrel I’ll snap her neck.”… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury's magnificent work, 'The Martian Chronicles.' I had… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I am sure that the experience of growing up in the heart of the working class and learning from my parents, and… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Gen Y is depicted as self-centred and apathetic when it comes to politics, but it doesn't help that we are largely overlooked.… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
“My mother was in charge of language. My father had never really learned to read - he could manage slowly, with his… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest… — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
“I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese.… — Yotam Ottolenghi Copy Share Image
I have a partner who can be there alongside me, who's taking up a huge part of that joint responsibility, because he's… — Jacinda Ardern Copy Share Image
While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn. — Frances Bean Cobain Copy Share Image
We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras.… — Mahesh Babu Copy Share Image
I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but… — Martha Finley Copy Share Image
I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
“Mother says as th' two worst things as can happen to a child is never have his own way-- or always to… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
My father would never let me win at chess, so when I did beat him he was really, really proud. I was… — Rachel Reeves Copy Share Image
If you can't afford taking your kids to the Zoo, try taking them to Wal-Mart...its essentially the same experience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've mastered this by having, unfortunately, lived with my parents my whole life. When you're supposed to be being quiet, but you… — Ellie Rowsell Copy Share Image
I never thought I had it in me to be an actor. There is so much more to the job than acting.… — Kalyani Priyadarshan Copy Share Image
I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion. — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
“Seem like nice boys" my father said "Do they? I think there practice satarts and ends with Dos Equis but maybe I'm… — Therese Walsh Copy Share Image
“Later, when the man saw Jesus in the temple, he told the Pharisees and they harassed Jesus because of the sabbath healing.… — Daniel Partner Copy Share Image
'Castles Made of Sand' was a song that my parents put me to sleep to, so naturally, it still puts me in… — Hannah Bronfman Copy Share Image
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“It was a soulless gaze, burning with a wild hatred that shouldn’t be there in anyone who could call themselves a parent.” — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from… — Trevor McDonald Copy Share Image
My son is an integral part of my life; the fact of life is that parents and children need you; wife doesn't… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
My mother had a wall of degrees in our house, and she would walk me up to the wall and say, 'When… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The Father is more concerned with the coming forth of His Son in our lives than He is in defeating Satan. Who” — Francis Frangipane Copy Share Image
The welfare and the future of our societies depend on our capacity to remain mobilized so as to improve the health of… — Jean Ping Copy Share Image
I think I said something mean when I was little, and my mother snapped on me. I was just like, 'I'm sorry!'… — Craig Robinson Copy Share Image
A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
