When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father… — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
“These stories are real, the dreams are real, yet the dilemmas each person faces are founded on the presences that haunt from… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life. — Patricia Kaas Copy Share Image
Certainly my personality, my sense of humor, my outlook on life was informed by the experiences of my parents and the stories… — Geddy Lee Copy Share Image
I grew up in a time when I could play and bike in the neighborhood, largely because my parents assumed that if… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system… — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
Growing up, my father coached my basketball team, and my mother drove me into St. Louis for various rehearsals between musical productions… — Taylor Louderman Copy Share Image
To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
No matter where you're born in life or what the circumstances are when you're born, like your parents being poor or not… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Roy remembered the time he and his father had a talk about fighting. 'It's important to stand up for what's right,' Mr.… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
We've been doing a 40-year end zone celebration of the victories won by our parents and grandparents. We haven't shepherded our history.… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
“The best fathers have the softest, sweetest hearts. In other words, great dads are real marshmallows.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
My great-grandmother, who was known as Nana, passed away before I was born, but she and my mother were very, very close.… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old),… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
My Heavenly Father, forgive me when I fail to give you thanks for the many blessings you have bestowed upon me. Thank… — David Kreger Copy Share Image
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad. — Jack Bruce Copy Share Image
What are you to do? You are always to remember that you are the child of a Great Father. You must not… — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar Copy Share Image
My parents have been my biggest support. Had it not been for them, I would have not been able to be the… — Divyanka Tripathi Copy Share Image
When I was ten years old, my family left a cold, damp prefab in West Fife and moved to Corby, Northamptonshire, where… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
Your father tells you a story when you're a kid, or your mother or your uncle or whoever it is. You sit… — David Chase Copy Share Image
I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of… — Oscar Isaac Copy Share Image
“Noooo," Cersei wailed, "Father help him, someone help him, my son, my son...' Tyrian found himself thinking of Robb Stark. My own… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
We have women entering lower-paying career fields. Women are still, culturally, the primary caregivers for children, even though we would love to… — Martha McSally Copy Share Image
Every time I get a tattoo, my parents say they'll disown me. I have to get them airbrushed for Charmed. Witches don't… — Alyssa Milano Copy Share Image
You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. ...Prayer… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
“I should like to ask you:-Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“We once knew well our Elder Brother and our Father in Heaven. We rejoiced at the prospects of earth life that could… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother was Cantonese, so I'm a quarter Chinese and half Irish and a quarter Scottish and raised by English parents… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can't be a champion. That doesn't determine who you are. But you can be a champion father, and that means… — Jermaine O'Neal Copy Share Image
Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“And my parents knew, because Barbara [Stanwyck] called their house a few times looking for me. I finally told them we were… — Robert Wagner Copy Share Image
A child, thought Carl, is not the only result of childbirth. A mother, too, is born. You see them every day--nondescript women… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
I have never seen the Almighty God. But whenever I see my mother I realize the God may be like her. Who… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I was born in Pittsburgh and my mother personifies that Steel City grit that makes the city what it is. — Jason Taylor Copy Share Image
Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks… — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image