My mother was the center of the family.

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

— Ang Lee

I was appalled at how children had become the focus and gravitational center of the nuclear family around which parents orbited instead of the…

— Judith M Bardwick

“If you ask me, that's reason enough to keep a kitchen at the center of a family's life, as a place to understand favorite…

— Barbara Kingsolver

I'm from a very politically and socially conscious family. My mother always made a point of making us look at what was going on…

— Dave Matthews

When liberals say 'family', they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.' When we say 'family,' we mean 'honor thy father and mother.'

— Ronald Reagan

My mother is a huge fan of my work. I told her about 'Coraline' long before the film was made, and she got the…

— Henry Selick

The family of my mother had a lot of money; the family of my father, nothing.

— Charo

I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother's side had been a matron on a hospital…

— Nick Earls

Our mother and father are our way of life.

— Anonymous

In a very demanding starring role, you become a professional mother overnight. You just do it. I am able to do this because I…

— Lauren Ridloff

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had…

— Rupert Murdoch

What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is…

— Warren Stephens

we need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. for in the center we…

— Sue Monk Kidd

Great men don't 'move to the center' - great men move the center!

— L. Neil Smith

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

— Marilynne Robinson