“Before every elementary school classroom had a 'Drop Everything and Read' period, before parents and educators agonized more about children being glued… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
They made it to the middle class, my dad working as a bartender and my mother as a cashier and a maid.… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“There are cases that I just can't forget.....What it is. I don't know. I think it's the ones where something small changes… — Laura McBride Copy Share Image
When a man loves truly ... He behaves like a child ... When a woman loves truly ... She behaves like a mother.. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
My father was a self-employed textile agent, and the shop below his office was an art gallery. — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
I was studying architecture at Berkeley when my father passed away in 2007. We knew he had cancer, but we didn't expect… — Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Copy Share Image
“My mother had soft hands that smelled like soap, and a smile like the first bit of sunlight creeping over a trimmed… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
My parents are Andre Previn and Mia, but obviously, they're not even my real parents. — Soon-Yi Previn Copy Share Image
“Mother Teresa diagnosed the world's ills in this way: we've just "forgotten that we belong to each other." Kinship is what happens… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
“Her mother, an unshapely, chubby-cheeked creature from the rural gentry of Styria, permanently lost her hair at the age of forty after… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
I didn't relate well to people my age. Maybe the truth was that I didn't relate well to people, period. Even my… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
A dutiful mother is someone who follows every step her child makes...And a good mother is someone whose child wants to follow… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I remember my father making many things. Once we made a shed, and a man in the village came along to help.… — David Linley Copy Share Image
“How do you small-talk your father when "dad" is a language so foreign that whenever you try to say it, it feels… — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series.… — Beau Bridges Copy Share Image
We just can't let the Lord down. And if the day comes when we are the only women on earth who find… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
A great many political speeches are literary parricides; they kill their fathers. — George D. Prentice Copy Share Image
“My father says he doesn't like hawks because they swoop down on mice and other defenseless desert creatures. He can't stand the… — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
“There’s no one in the house, obviously. It’s probably good for you to go there anyway to make sure everything’s all right.”… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I have gone above and beyond to care for my child, including an agreed upon monthly stipend, a house, a car, insurance,… — Robinson Cano Copy Share Image
I grew up watching games with my father at Washington Husky Stadium. When I moved out to Seattle, I had a friend… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
“Sixteen years old is a crucial time in anybody's life, whether they realize it or not, and happy is the young person… — Arnold Pent III Copy Share Image
My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Both my parents were keen golfers and Dad was such a creature of habit that he didn't see much of me at… — Steve Nicol Copy Share Image
As a kid, my parents would always listen to a lot of Beatles, Queen, Elvis. My mom was born and raised in… — Alessia Cara Copy Share Image
Our Heavenly Father knows us and our circumstances and even what faces us in the future. His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, our… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
I grew up hearing my parents' stories about how they had to fight for their right to vote in the Jim Crow… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
Both my parents were huge stars. I would never have attempted to become as big of stars as they were because they… — Lorenzo Lamas Copy Share Image
Really, I was brought up with music as a second language. My mother was extremely encouraging of the sensitivities of my brain.… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
“My mother is dead, my mother is dead,” she kept saying it in her numbed state, because it had not sunk in.… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you why I keep my scrapbooks. It's in case my real father shows up .I never met him, don't even… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.” — John Locke Copy Share Image
All the warnings the founding fathers gave us about government proved to be true. We should have listened. — James Cook Copy Share Image
I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
