I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
My mum had me brought up by nannies and governesses. I didn't have much to do with my parents until I was 21. — Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark Copy Share Image
When I first came to Southern California I enrolled at UCLA in pre-med. My fathers a doctor. But the sight of blood… — Barbi Benton Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to the greats of the '80s and, thanks to my parents, the '70s - the Doobie Brothers, Stevie… — Jordan Fisher Copy Share Image
It always helps to know that other parents with special-needs children are surviving, and surviving well. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
My mother taught me how to apply my own makeup at 13 years old, and the most important lesson I learned is… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind… — Linda McCartney Copy Share Image
The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“When I talk to parents who tell me, as a way of justifying something unkind their child has done, 'What can I… — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“His father asked Ethan in a raspy voice, “You spend time with your son?” “Much as I can,” he’d answered, but his… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image
My mothers dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was… — Mike Rowe Copy Share Image
People talked about being a parent, or being a mother or a father. We don't talk about "wiving" our husbands or "friending"… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“As I reflect on all my friends and colleagues in my life on this special occasion... Mother is only half the word… — Mark W Boyer Copy Share Image
We felt often that we were perceived as mothers trying to be lawyers, while a male colleague of ours who had a… — Anne C Weisberg Copy Share Image
“I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“What is it about mothers and the phone which, immediately you say you have to go, makes them think of nineteen completely… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
In a Polynesian family it's not always about yourself, you've got to look after your parents and your younger siblings. — Israel Folau Copy Share Image
Sixty per cent of how you act is drawn from memories. And it's about who you are. I am a son, brother,… — Suriya Copy Share Image
Children will rarely appreciate their legacy with the same ardency that their parents labored to provide it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Back in high school, I went on dates, but I was too focused on my career. My parents were like, 'It's nice… — Amber Riley Copy Share Image
Any artiste would die to be a part of a film like 'Gandhi My Father.' Director Feroz Abbas Khan had a very… — Shefali Shah Copy Share Image
“Your dad called and sent me in with a replacement part. He doesn’t want you down for even a second. I’m also… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I was allowed to do whatever made me happy. I can't think of a better or more worthwhile approach to parenting. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
I'm descended from southern slaves, and I'm descended on my mother's side from northern European Protestant immigrants. — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined. — John Stevens Cabot Abbott Copy Share Image
I want to be an involved parent in my daughter's life and do the things that other parents do, like go to… — Laura Jane Grace Copy Share Image
The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings,… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then… — Lee De Forest Copy Share Image
Grown dont mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown. In my heart it… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Parents shouldn't lie to their children-not even when they think it's for their own good. Even a little lie is dangerous ... — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, you can't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In California, I guess you belong to the state; you don't even belong to your parents. It's an old Spanish law. It… — Bo Derek Copy Share Image
Prada Infusion d'Iris perfume - my mother wears it, so it feels like home away from home. It's lovely to smell her… — Emilia Wickstead Copy Share Image
