Growing up, my mom was my mother and father figure. She was my role model. I looked up to her. She was… — Brook Lopez Copy Share Image
Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than… — Todd Tiahrt Copy Share Image
We are not heading for an eternal void and an eternal silence but we are on our way to an encounter, an… — Raniero Cantalamessa Copy Share Image
I'm a parent. I think we're responsible for the problems that young people have. I believe that. I don't blame them for… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
“The very idea of a library for me is bound to my mother and father and includes the history of my own… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I kill… — Claire Denis Copy Share Image
“My mother and Joe have a lovers' shorthand, an economy of gestures that comes when you are close enough to someone to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, as a young child, about 50 miles from Montgomery, and we would visit the… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
There were lots of nightly relationships. But the reason you don't want to make a commitment is not that you're such a… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Hopefulness is the heartbeat of the relationship between a parent and child. Each time a child overcomes the next challenge of hislife,… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The deer aren't our prey or our possessions -- they're us. They're us at one point in the cycle of life and… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Between 1958 and 1963, I sold about 40 million records - to the shock of my mother and father because I was… — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“My mother and father were married this way and are quite happy. I hope to find happiness, too. To find a woman… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
I have just as much right to stay in America - in fact, the black people have contributed more to America than… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“She had had such friends. Heaven was growing into a very wealthy place for her. Mother and father not only, and sisters,… — Pansy Copy Share Image
“The boys will take a little while to adjust, but I’m sure you’ll all get along,” her mother said. Boys? Megan’s mind… — Kate Brian Copy Share Image
“Retirement’s for young people, because they have other things they can do.’ At 70 years of age, with idleness, the system breaks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Does this mean we will always understand our challenges? Won't all of us, sometime, have reason to ask, 'O God, where art… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
“I have had so many Dwellings, Nat, that I know these Streets as well as a strowling Beggar: I was born in… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make...The nice thing about my… — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
“Love is the reason why my mother and father stick together in a hard life when they might each have an easier… — Kao Kalia Yang Copy Share Image
Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father. — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“I was so happy that my mother, father, and two brothers had somehow found one another. Perhaps my mother and father have… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess,… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that… — Jessy Schram Copy Share Image
I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“An alliance with the haramu-ful has always been a perilous thing. Perilous for his mother and father. For his friends. For his… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and we lived there for three to five years - with my mother and father. And… — Yasmin Aga Khan Copy Share Image
The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived… — Janet McTeer Copy Share Image
To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate?… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
I had a very special family life. My mother and father made sure when we were home, we were part of the… — Jerry Mathers Copy Share Image
I lived with my mother and father and brothers and sisters some of the time; some of the time, my mother and… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
