“Parents are satisfied only if their children are gifted or exceptional (or diagnosed with a treatable problem that the right pill cocktail… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never… — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
It's not the physical location of birth that defines citizenship, but whether your parents are citizens, and the express or implied consent… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
The one thing I've always said is I don't want them growing up without a father, and they're my inspiration to make… — Ant Middleton Copy Share Image
My parents are proof that arranged marriages can work. It is a great part of my culture but I grew up in… — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
However, my father was a publisher and it was expected that I would become a publisher as well - in his firm. — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
For all that being a parent is normal statistically, it's not normal psychologically. It produces some of the most extreme emotions you'll… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
My passion is from my mom. She was passionate about leaving Germany and coming to America and making a life for her… — Herm Edwards Copy Share Image
“The other instructors, even his mother, laughed at him for making work harder for himself and not teaching the workbook. But his… — Lisa Ko Copy Share Image
I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Giuseppe was not tied down, not by rope, not by fear. He stood up, and spoke with a loud voice in the… — Matthew J. Kirby Copy Share Image
My father had not been outside the house except to drive back and forth to work or sit out in the backyard,… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image
Celebrate the feast of Christmas every day, even every moment in the interior temple of your spirit, remaining like a baby in… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
“And accordingly, the adolescent sensibility is one that prevails in much of the art world, where the most adolescent of goals, transgression,… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
My mother helped me to get past that. She was always there for me, until she dies. I remember she told me… — Johanna Lindsey Copy Share Image
Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And that's not always a biological parent or family member. It may… — Joe Manchin Copy Share Image
When I was five, long before I understood what the word 'gender' meant, I would always tell my mother that I wished… — Josie Totah Copy Share Image
“The moment Rosie’s killer put his hands around her throat and squeezed the life out of her, he had done the same… — Rebecca Bradley Copy Share Image
GUYS: many of you need to start taking responsibilities and man up and help her raise your kid. too many kids growing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents argued more than I remembered, about money and all the little things that disguise the truth that you are still… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
As we all know, we're all highly influenced by the atmosphere that our parents create when we're growing up. And, if we… — Alex Kendrick Copy Share Image
From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Pam's father had been diagnosed with rectal cancer. It didn't surprise me. Put a bunch of white assholes together and you're going… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
My father went to work by train every day. It was half an hour's journey each way, and he would read a… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
My father said: "If you want to catch your girl cheating, you knock on the front door and run to the back,… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
“I didn't know about you. Your mother never told me. When I found out I confronted her and she turned me into… — Robyn Peterman Copy Share Image
“How the hell would she support herself and her mother if Agua Dulce’s new owner built one of those mega service stations… — Anna Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Around the house my parents played a lot of R&B and soul; Stevie Wonder, Mary J. Blige and Kirk Franklin. — Griff Copy Share Image
It has to start from the playground and parents teaching kids that diversity is what makes us so wonderful. — Jimmy Somerville Copy Share Image
My mother raised me very clearly that if you cross the street, you will die. If you go outside, you will die.… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
I always tell the parents, 'You don't have to approve of your children; you just have to accept them for who they… — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
Just because a child is one year old and you've been a parent of a one-year-old before doesn't mean that what worked… — Eva Marcille Copy Share Image
“When the Earth was just a child, He searched for his mother Venus; And for his father Mars, But they were not… — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
As I said, before, talking to educators, students and parents, they recognize the importance of our schools and them being open full… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
“I pulled out my bag and examined my mother's picture. I wondered what it had been like to be inside her, just… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“They all spoke kindly of my dead mother, who had been a slave merely in name, but in nature was noble and… — Harriet Jacobs Copy Share Image
In between being born in Nazi Germany, and marriage to my dad - of which I think marriage to my dad might… — David Baddiel Copy Share Image
