I grew up watching 'The Office' and 'Father Ted' and all the British things at that time - 'The Royle Family' -… — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
My parents felt I should earn my money because I would then value it. So they would pay me a shilling or… — Deborah Meaden Copy Share Image
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.' My mom and dad are both in theater,… — Logan Marshall-Green Copy Share Image
“Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. That's the first important thing I ever found out I… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's really easy as an actor just starting out to get into the mindset that you only get one break. But my… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
If I were to ask any parent, 'Do you love your kid?' the answer would unequivocally be, 'Yes.' If I went on… — Suzy Shuster Copy Share Image
A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I had such total, unequivocal, enthusiastic encouragement to be an actress. Looking back, I really find that to be a total mystery.… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
“This door is lock’d. And as my father oft Hath said, a lockèd door no mischief makes. So sure am I that,… — Ian Doescher Copy Share Image
My parents were decent, aspirant first-generation middle class. They read 'Reader's Digest', listened to classical music; my grandparents had a bust of… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
At times, parents foist their own choices on kids and try to get them to read the classics. But kids have very… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a… — Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon Copy Share Image
“She hadn’t seen gold since she’d last been to her father’s home, when she would sneak off to meet him. Smiling at… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
“In reality, each child is an investment of his parents. You are their precious fruit, after all the hard labour.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
A father's pride, laid on thick, has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain during procreation. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Truly, there's no alternative to stupidity. Cretinism is the mother of fascism. I have no defence against it, really… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I wanted to be Brooke Shields, and my mother was an aspiring photographer, so I was, of course, the only one who… — Stephanie Seymour Copy Share Image
My sister, my mother and I are great friends. We have always valued our immediate family immensely, something we learned from my… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
I suppose there is this little bit of a wild child in me just from growing up on a farm and having… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
“My mother's voice and my father's fists are two bookends of my childhood, and they form the basis of my art.” — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
A true pioneer who to me was like a father when I first came into the Dodger organization. He (Walter O'Malley) stood… — Roy Campanella Copy Share Image
While you're pregnant you're made to feel not beautiful or sexually viable. You're either sexy, or you're a mother. I didn't want… — Demi Moore Copy Share Image
It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth.… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
When I finally went to Ireland, I had to go. It was 1993. My father was finally too old to travel alone,… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
But my parents picked Ft. Wayne, which was the best decision because if they had brought me to New York or Philly,… — Heather Headley Copy Share Image
My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The only thing they… — Rumer Willis Copy Share Image
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“My father from long habit took a book with him to the table and then, remembering my presence, furtively dropped it under… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
I watch his hands, they're lumpy but clever. "Is there a word for adults when they aren't parents?" Steppa laughs. "Folks with… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“We brought death to our enemies, and I loved the power of it. And that final love, one I shared with my… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“It is too disturbing for the patient to feel sexually attracted to his mother; in a last-ditch effort, the resistance disguises the… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Sanford and Son' transcended politics and race. It was a show about a son and a father who have a love-hate relationship… — Demond Wilson Copy Share Image
We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
I don't do what I've been told. You're so lame why don't you just go. Die mother fucker die mother fucker die. — Dope Copy Share Image
