The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“To My Mother You too, my mother, read my rhymes For love of unforgotten times, And you may chance to hear once… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
God our Heavenly Father knows us by name. Jesus Christ lives; He is the Messiah. He loves us. The Atonement of Jesus… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“I inherited a lot from my mother, including delicate features, long legs, and dark hair, but the biggest genetic inheritance has been… — Alessandra Torre Copy Share Image
There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
“My father would eat cat shit if it was salted, fried, or frosted, but it took an act of Congress to get… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“Your mother never would have spoken to me in such a fashion.' 'I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the tone of my… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My two sisters and I had a very nice nanny at home in Morocco until I was 13. I remember my parents… — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
“I didn't want to be ordinary," I mumbled. My mother looked up. "What ordinary, Charley?" "You know. Someone you forget." From the… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Growing up, my parents always told me, 'while you're out there you always have to have fun with it. You can't play… — Ja Morant Copy Share Image
“Starke entered his house a detective, slipped off his shoes and became a husband and father. It was five in the morning.… — Aaron Dries Copy Share Image
“(b) Boundary Violation. This involves children witnessing parents in sexual behavior. They may walk in on it because parents don’t provide closed… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
For this my mother wrapped me warm, And called me home against the storm, And coaxed my infant nights to quiet, And… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“And in the cool evenings after his mother had gone to bed, he learned to play a friendly game of cards, bluffing… — Victoria Wilcox Copy Share Image
I think because I'm not a parent, my most immediate connection to childhood is my memory of my own childhood. — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“If you had yourself cloned, who exactly, would be your parents? Can you raise yourself? I guess so. And it might be… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My mother describes me as 'a real hero . . . just like your grandfather'. But I do not know what to… — Jake Wood Copy Share Image
“Hilda was philosophical. That means you think everything will turn out for best, according to my father. Or if you don't actually… — Ursula Dubosarsky Copy Share Image
When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
A woman's decision to carry a baby to term knowing that she will not reap the fruits of motherhood should be treated… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
For my birthday, I would ask for a ticket from my mother. Just buy me a ticket to said country and I'll… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
“Quality time is not the same as the everydayness of being together. Let’s neither glorify nor undervalue.” — Don Elium Copy Share Image
“Maybe everybody was kind. Maybe even my father. But Mr. Quintana was brave. He didn’t care if the whole world knew he… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
All that I have learnt about cinema is from my father but all that we have learnt about life is from my… — Randhir Kapoor Copy Share Image
Being a father taught me patience. And it taught me vulnerability. You don't realize how vulnerable you are when you love something… — Dean Cain Copy Share Image
The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one… — Margot Fonteyn Copy Share Image
I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything. — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
My parents never discouraged me. There were a couple times when my dad criticized a couple things that I did, but it… — Jeff Dunham Copy Share Image
My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey,… — J. J. Watt Copy Share Image
Parents are big, but sometimes become the smallest. All their habits are like a little child. When we play together — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of being from 'somewhere else.' I do think that's inherited. My father never had a fixed sense of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
