I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company. — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
On a positive note, we must reaffirm the right of children to grow up in a family with a father and a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I… — Stuart Rose Copy Share Image
I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
It was the kind of promise a father makes easily and sincerely, knowing at the same time that it will be impossible… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
I am not a father who wants to give his kids everything. They have to earn it. — Mariano Rivera Copy Share Image
If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't… — Clyde Edgerton Copy Share Image
My mother was born in Sinaloa, and she moved to Los Angeles when she was three years old. My father was born… — Alanna Ubach Copy Share Image
I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
Regardless of nationality, all men are brothers. God is "our Father who art in heaven." The commandment "Thou shalt not kill" is… — Ben Salmon Copy Share Image
My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company. — Eva Herzigova Copy Share Image
Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a water-tight excuse for making money hand over fist. — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I don’t actually don’t have any scenes with Michael Bolton. There’s an exposé done on Sue Sylvester, and he pops up… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
Those who used to ask my father to be ashamed of himself for training us in wrestling now say they wish they… — Geeta Phogat Copy Share Image
I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept. — William Kamkwamba Copy Share Image
For years before I became a father, I would try to spend as much time as I could with my friends who… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
'-mediocre, arrogant as his father, a determined rule-breaker, delighted to find himself famous, attention-seeking and impertinent -' said Severus. 'You see what… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to… — John Knowles Copy Share Image
I was the youngest kid. When I was five, my sisters were 17, 19, and 21, already becoming women. I would see… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
We don't have to be perfect to experience the blessings and gifts of our Heavenly Father. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
My father has said a hundred times, and I have paid attention, that it's stupid to let money be the reason you… — Gabrielle Hamilton Copy Share Image
