My father worked in a toy store. He used to give toys to the head of police when he would shop for… — Haim Saban Copy Share Image
“Belief isn’t required. Finch told me my father scoffed at it all, and he’s just as dead as the other dukes.” “So” — Sally MacKenzie Copy Share Image
There are parents out there screaming as if their kid is going to be in the big leagues someday. C'mon. I chew… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
My father was very confrontational and an intellectual bully. My mom was a peacemaker who wanted to make everyone comfortable. — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
Akri? Can I keep him? See, he good eating. Lots of fat on this one. (Simi) No, Simi. You can’t keep the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The funny thing is a lot of people assume that my parents are the ones pushing me to make music. The truth… — Cheyenne Kimball Copy Share Image
My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't. — Aaron Paul Copy Share Image
I'm a military baby, and it makes me proud to know that I'm the child of two parents that served our country.… — Ciara Copy Share Image
I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps. — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
“Shrove Tuesday is the very last day, allowed by our Holy Mother the Church for revelry, before the long austere forty days… — Emmuska Orczy Copy Share Image
“My mother didn’t have a heart, Kreacher,” Sirius snapped. "She kept herself alive out of pure spite.” — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to… — Li Bingbing Copy Share Image
Though my parents assured me over and over again that I wasn't stupid or slow, I sensed that my dyslexia was now… — Carre Otis Copy Share Image
My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
“I don't mean to smear our people, but honestly, sometimes I thought the Jews were the worst. Not all, but you know… — Sharon Pomerantz Copy Share Image
Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“anyone reared by fundamentalist parents deserves credit for the exceptional struggle from indoctrination to enlightenment.” — Peter Boghossian Copy Share Image
My parents always told me to stay away from trouble. When I moved away from them at a young age, I was… — David Ortiz Copy Share Image
When my father arrived in Kenya, he had found the Kikuyu way of life similar to that of the British at the… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
I was allowed to do whatever made me happy. I can't think of a better or more worthwhile approach to parenting. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
“Shoes. Stranger. Strange. Her mother's shoes. A stranger's shoes. Her mother was a stranger. She was only finding that out now. It… — Chika Unigwe Copy Share Image
“Our class owes its uniqueness to mothering and lactation; indeed that is why it is called ‘mammalia’, after the mammary glands.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
To have that radical a mind in that bourgeois-looking body was really hard for a lot of people to take, because, when… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“I would hate to have parents who were always looking over my shoulder, reading my diary, checking my thoughts. I would hate… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“10. What realities are captured in the story of Lou Sanders and his daughter, Shelley, regarding home care for an aging and… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Not that I have any little kids running around I need to keep away from the guns. I had any kids I'd… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out. — Mavis Staples Copy Share Image
'I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
“Painter" "I said you are only keeping me here in the hospital, lying to my parents and saying I am madder than… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
Great mothers bring the arms of comfort to an insecure child in a world of uncertainty. — Reed Markham Copy Share Image
You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up, really, in the film business, even though my parents are both artists. I grew up in New York… — Julia Garner Copy Share Image
If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father. — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
“You are the son of the Lord God! She said. That’s why you can kill and bring back to life, that’s why… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
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