I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the 'metro.'… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I used to get so upset when my parents took away my phone and then I realized it's because they wanted the… — Christian McCaffrey Copy Share Image
It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the… — Ian Hart Copy Share Image
“Do you like Mother and Father?" "they're both all right" "they're not Jimmy, and you shouldn't say so. I hate them, and… — Ian Cross Copy Share Image
If we are to continue to have the freedoms that came of the inspiration of the Almighty to our Founding Fathers, we… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him. — Ram Kapoor Copy Share Image
I do feel a commitment to this art form and to my father's teachings, and the older I am getting, the more… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
Baseball always gets credit for the foundational part of masculinity - the father thing. The eternal game of backyard catch, 'Field of… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Father God, thank You for having no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
As a son of Jamaican immigrants whose father cut sugarcane as a contract farm worker for over a decade and whose mother… — Wayne Messam Copy Share Image
I'm a lone wolf. I run by myself on most things. I've got lots of really great friends, but the thought of… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
As a father you're guilty until proven innocent. You're a second class citizen in terms of parenting. As a father you have… — Stacey Solomon Copy Share Image
I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing.… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
I could never, ever talk to my father. I really loved him, but we couldn't talk about anything together. There was this… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
A father's pride, laid on thick,has always made me wish that the fellow had at least experienced some pain duringprocreation. — Karl Kraus (1874â1936) Austrian Writer Copy Share Image
My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven… — John Pearson Copy Share Image
My whole life is about racing, and of course everybody wants to do the same with your son. Being a father and… — Jos Verstappen Copy Share Image
“Fathers are teachers of the true and not-true, and no father ever knowingly teaches what is not true. In a cloud of… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest:… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
My sister Susan, who was the first one, was pretty good in mathematics and then chess, and my father chose chess because… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
I met my birth mother as an adult, but she was always quite vague about my birth father. I knew he had… — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
You were never ever there when I needed you… I hope you regret what you did I think I know the truth...… — James Merrow Copy Share Image
When it comes to opportunities, your father or mother can only set up a meeting for you. However, your opportunities will only… — Rhea Chakraborty Copy Share Image
As a young man, you get to a point in your life where you feel like you have grown up and have… — John Starks Copy Share Image
My father worked every day; my brother and sister had to travel many hours to study, so Atletico were for people like… — Fernando Torres Copy Share Image
There are people who recall my father as a saint and a monster. I'm quite sure I will share the same fate. — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
I am in competition only with my father and my uncle (Mukesh Bhatt) because they taught me what I know today. I… — Pooja Bhatt Copy Share Image
My father is from Jamaica, my mother is from the U.K., but I was adopted as an infant by a really wonderful… — Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Copy Share Image
To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John. — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
My Ukrainian grandmother would tell amazing stories. She lost her father, and as children, we would always listen to her stories. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
