There must be a profound recognition that parents are the first teachers and that education begins before formal schooling and is deeply… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
Being a publicist is like management in a lot of ways - you're their friend, you're their mother, you're their confidante. — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
“Though his father had told him stories about it happening, until that fateful afternoon, Gavin Blake had believed that love at first… — Gail McHugh Copy Share Image
My parents hated me. All I ever heard was, "Why can't you be like your cousin Shelia? Why can't you be like… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My father ran a famous L.A. nightclub complete with roller-rink - Flippers - in the early Eighties which was the West Coast's… — Liberty Ross Copy Share Image
My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter. — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
“I blame my parents. It's their fault for raising me with a little guilt-demon living in my stomach. I can't ever just… — Kevin Emerson Copy Share Image
“Therefore have the Jews departed from God, in not receiving His Word, but imagining that they could know the Father [apart] by… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
In Mali, you hear music everywhere. What is fantastic in Mali is the music tradition is handed down from father to son… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was… — Darrell Hammond Copy Share Image
Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
“Dwight Eisenhower said that from the beginning, his mother and father operated on an assumption that set the course of his life… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
We pray that on this mothers day youll have some time for You to be able to do those special things you've… — M S Lowndes Copy Share Image
I'm the only Red in our family! You know my father, my brother, my brother-in-law, my 14-year-old niece and two of my… — Ian Brown Copy Share Image
I grew up in Illinois in an environment where my parents were very politically active in the civil rights movement. — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
My parents would never put too much hype into anything. They're very proud of me, but they're Queensland people. They're just glad… — Matt Passmore Copy Share Image
I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 16, and he was eight years older. My father was furious about this 24-year-old,… — Ellen Pompeo Copy Share Image
We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And… — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
“Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency . . . to get the book written. If a writer has to rob… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Becoming a mother has made me even more aware and more passionate about nutrition and wellness. So much so that I am… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I would not have had the same personal commitment to Alzheimer's disease if it had not been for my mother and my… — Vivek Ramaswamy Copy Share Image
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but in my family… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
“Then there was the terror; the overwhelming incapacity, one's parents giving it into one's hands, this life, to be lived to the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
“if parents and teachers show the required dedication to shape the lives of the young, India would get a new life.” — A P J Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors. — Jerry Rubin Copy Share Image
“Imagine this—what if Leonardo DaVinci’s parents told him he should stop imagining things? Or what if Steve Jobs was told to stop… — Michael Alden Copy Share Image
I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“And so...we prayed. And I added a silent prayer of my own, giving God thanks for the blessing of my father.” — Nancy Moser Copy Share Image
I was 15 when I first read 'The Feminine Mystique,' locked in my bedroom, probably wearing black, groping for any ideas I… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
A mother isn't someone who does it on purpose; mothers are who they are, and just by existing, they affect the way… — Arca Copy Share Image
Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw… — Bob Uecker Copy Share Image
Mother sighed with exasperation. "Look, there aren't any "people in charge of death". When you die you move to another part of… — Will Self Copy Share Image
My first job paid well for a young attorney. I was making over $50,000, which was more than either of my parents… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“Then the dreaded words, Your child has autism. These words echo in their heads like a freight train blasting through their hopes… — Dr. Linda Barboa Copy Share Image
Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image