When I entered the profession, I didn't make a big deal of it. People didn't really know I was my parents' son. — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
“Not all sons were like their fathers. A son chose the man he would be. Not all daughters were like their fathers.… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of my father's films. I'm crazy about my father and his movies. If I promote his movies,… — Dulquer Salmaan Copy Share Image
For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks… — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as… — Emilio G. Segre Copy Share Image
I watched both of my parents lose their jobs. I was like, 'Why am I paying all this money to be in… — Esther Povitsky Copy Share Image
If I woke up every day attempting to be my father, I would fail miserably. I think he was anointed. He was… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
“Jesus sure seemed to have a good set of enemies, and some of them even wanted to kill Him. Why? He was… — Mark Cahill Copy Share Image
Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“[Her father] never minded when there was nothing to shoot, and she never minded when there was. The harsh crack of the… — Sonja Yoerg Copy Share Image
One of my fondest memories from childhood is of looking at a globe with my father. "What's the biggest country?" he'd ask… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image
I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
I've never had a particular skill. I can't cook, dance, play an instrument, speak a foreign language. This used to worry me.… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I have a baby in the house, for any parent it is challenging knowing that you have to find different solutions daily,… — Emma Hayes Copy Share Image
I was shopping with my mother in 2006 and saw that there was a model casting going on. A couple of months… — Sigrid Agren Copy Share Image
The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
After every game, I speak to my father. He is my number one fan and I will never forget how we were… — Thomas Partey Copy Share Image
My sister is not my mother, but more than anyone else, she fills that role for me now - like it or… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
In homes where high ideals and gospel values are maintained, it is parents, not teachers, who lay the foundation of character and… — Rex D. Pinegar Copy Share Image
Through school, I saw plenty of theatre my parents weren't necessarily up on. They would prefer a football game to watching 'The… — Katori Hall Copy Share Image
“One thing that I completely got—I got why my father fell in love with her. Why she fell in love with my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the age of 12, my parents gave me a chemistry set for Christmas, and experimentation soon became a consuming passion in… — John Vane Copy Share Image
One question we'll ask is, 'Who are you grateful for,' and a surprising number of people can't name anyone beyond their mother. — Charles Best Copy Share Image
I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I always say that if you stay with a good coach, the relationship between him and his team becomes like a family:… — Lothar Matthaus Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my father helped kindle my passion for innovation and technology. He was a high-ranking executive at AT&T… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Motherhood is a joy! I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there's nothing disappointing about it. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
That whole business of having two homes, and that divided loyalty bind that kids get into. I mean, my parents were divorced… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
“I will always remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when I heard that my father had died...” — Lucinda Riley Copy Share Image
It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The best thing my parents did was to make me study in Chennai. I was in a school where most others around… — Kalyani Priyadarshan Copy Share Image
“When two brothers are busy fighting, an evil man can easily attack and rob their poor mother. Mankind should always stay united,… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I grew up not having a father. Golf is the father I never had. It taught me honesty and respect and discipline… — George Lopez Copy Share Image
“A good parent will teach their kids to be kind and forgive others. If we had a little more of that in… — Johan Twiss Copy Share Image
When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be… — Gena Rowlands Copy Share Image
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image