My father was very much a child of the counterculture movement and was drawn to the idea of alleviating poverty in the… — Lydia Polgreen Copy Share Image
All these kids in Hollywood, the people born and raised out here, their parents are all in show business, and that's why… — Pauly Shore Copy Share Image
My father had a phenomenal knowledge of music; my mom's family were all musicians. — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
People think the advantage of a parent in the business is that they'll open doors for you. But the true advantage for… — Katherine Waterston Copy Share Image
I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
I was born in a part of Tamil Nadu notorious for eliminating the girl child. I was the third daughter born to… — Suhasini Maniratnam Copy Share Image
Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had… — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
My third mother is my paternal grandmother. Her name is Viola. She gave me my sense of knowing why, or knowing why… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
“Sol! Take your daughter, your only daughter Rachel, Whom you love, and go to the world called Hyperion and offer her there… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late. — Hoagy Carmichael Copy Share Image
My ancestry is really weird, because my great grandfather was from the Cayman Islands, and then his father was from England. But… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
OK Computer? More like No Thank You Computers. They killed my father, and I hate them. — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“And each person of the Trinity is equally glorified in this work: there is an absolute dependence of the creature on every… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
After September, I've reflected on the campaign, and being a new father of twin boys, I really feel like I owe it… — Jeffrey O. Henley Copy Share Image
My relationship with my mom is so amazing. We never got to have that stage that people go through, like when you're… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
It's one thing for a father to say, 'Oh, my son is great.' But to have others say it - that's the… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
“Evere since I was first to read, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
You can't cheat kids. If you cheat them when they're children they'll make you pay when they're sixteen or seventeen by revolting… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“I now urge friends and acquaintances to have conversations with their aging parents and within their families while their parents are still… — Lisa J. Shultz Copy Share Image
Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with… — Bobby McFerrin Copy Share Image
It's a whole nother aspect of this life that most people have no idea about. There's the loved ones, the wives, the… — Chuck Ragan 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
What I love most about myself is that I have that same fire and belief that my father had in his eyes.… — Aditya Narayan Copy Share Image
My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John. — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
My parents were like, 'Oh my God,' when I said I was going into fashion - they pictured me with a rolling… — Mindy Grossman Copy Share Image
“I grew into my hips when I was seventeen years old I learned from my mother She used hers like a boat… — Hannah V. Sawyerr Copy Share Image
“It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
Every time I'm on the red carpet and they ask,'Who's the mother going to be? I always say Hillary Clinton as a… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
Both my parents came from North Carolina, in Warren County. My mother had a feeling that there was greater culture in North… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I was brought up correctly and in the right way, and my parents are very proud of the fact that I am… — Sadio Mane Copy Share Image
I calculated the amount of time I spent with my father during my entire life... the total amount of time I had… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
“Father Michaels' sermon was mercifully short. He had a reputation for three-minute homilies, tightly written, provocative and insightful. His words centered on… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
“He was alone and shackled by his neck to the wall. And he had no hope. How did a man live without… — Brenda Rickman Vantrease Copy Share Image
There's an African proverb: 'When death finds you, may it find you alive.' Alive means living your own damned life, not the… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image