My father and mother were second cousins, though they did…

My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.

— Sargent Shriver

“In my time first cousins did not meet like strangers. But we are learning modesty from the Americans, and old English ways are too…

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

“The Greatest loss in life is the loss of a mother: The second greatest, the loss of Self.”

— Med Saidi

“The first professor you meet in life is your mother; the second is hardship, and the last is death.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Your first teacher is your mother; the second is people; the third is life; and the fourth is God.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

The child should support his father and mother when he is able to do and they are in hand. But,in religious matters,the man must…

— JAINISM

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

— Robert Orben

My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and my parents are the most extraordinary father and mother.

— Akhil Sharma

“That's what Father and Mother are, thought Nafai. They stay together, not because of any gain, but because of the gift. Father doesn't stay…

— Orson Scott Card

My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children.

— Seamus Heaney

God has not made anything that I know of that pays so much attention to who their father and mother is as us.

— Bill Cosby

“The child comes home and the parent puts the hooks in him. The old man, or the woman, as the case may be, hasn’t…

— Robert Penn Warren

I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.

— Catherine Helen Spence

Deadbeat moms never realize the lasting effects that they have on there child's life, you only get one father and mother in this world.

— Anonymous

My father and mother were both doctors, yes.

— Jay Chandrasekhar