My parents - my mother, particularly - were very focused…

Always be grateful for your blessings, especially your heritage. When we are blessed with goodly parents, we should be grateful. This is the debt…

— Quentin L. Cook

I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people.…

— Dan Stevens

When I was little, I thought about becoming a lawyer like my parents, and my mother would always tell me, "You can do anything…

— Alexandra Daddario

From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. - Your mother will never see you again if you do…

— Jane Austen

Above all else, children need to know and feel they are loved, wanted, and appreciated. They need to be assured of that often. Obviously,…

— Ezra Taft Benson

My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.

— Karamo Brown

Even though I was 27 when I left, I still was largely treated like a child, because I wasn't married. My parents, my mother…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of…

— Khushwant Singh

I have a great relationship with Apollo's parents. My mother-in-law is a very supportive and caring lady. We both consider family very important, so…

— Phaedra Parks

I had good parents. My mother had morals and standards and she brought us up to be good kids - some of the families…

— Jimmy Somerville

“As a child, my wife hated her school and wished she could leave. Years later, when she was in her twenties, she disclosed this…

— Richard Dawkins

I had two different kind of parents. My mother was obsessive with movie stars and cinema and Hollywood because she worked in movies. And…

— Alessandro Michele

An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never…

— Jane Austen

“I wanted to tell her that I loved her, and not in the complicated way I loved our parents, but in a simple way…

— Brenna Yovanoff

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

— Pat Conroy