You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“What your father never understood, is that what he loved most about her was her unbridled love and freedom to live her… — RJ Blizzard Copy Share Image
I get some letters from a lot of people. Sometimes it's nice, with letters from kids or from parents of kids who… — Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Copy Share Image
My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
“My friend Dawn, a wonderful child psychologist, says that the parents’ job is to create the best environment for the child they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know who had a more tiresome, wall-to-wall schedule than my father, and I know what it's like to be a… — Joe Buck Copy Share Image
“But I think parents aren't teachers anymore. Parents -- or a whole lot of us, at least -- lead by mouth instead… — Robert R. McCammon Copy Share Image
Language makes it possible for a child to incorporate his parents' verbal prohibitions, to make them part of himself....We don't speak of… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
The epithets of parent and child have been long applied to Great Britain and her colonies, [but] we rarely see anything from… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“For the first time, it hit me that my mother and father were deaf.” — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living. -Gen 3:20 — Bible Copy Share Image
“This is how you should pray. “‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be honored. May your kingdom come. May what you… — Roger Quy Copy Share Image
I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Thank God that at least in one place, all men are equal: in the church of God. I do not consider it… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
Parents have to be connected to their children and know what they need. When they're happy. When they're not. Discipline is only… — Jo Frost Copy Share Image
“My own luck was being born white and middle-class into a house full of books, with a father who encouraged me to… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Instead of becoming a great shikari, as my mother and stepfather might have wished, I had become an incurable bookworm and was… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when your parents get mad at you then like 5 minutes later their all nice and cuddly. — Zavier Grant Copy Share Image
Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents were supportive. I didn't have good grades, but they could tell I wasn't lazy. — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
I am about to impart to you the sacred words my father gave to me. It’s the five responses that will get… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
I was always very quiet, and I think everyone thought that was because I was a good child. I'd sit there in… — Jameela Jamil Copy Share Image
And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against… — Bible Copy Share Image
“That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life—this our mother has told… — Irène Joliot-Curie Copy Share Image
I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order… — Fiona Shaw Copy Share Image
Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings A rain that I know can chill But it… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
My father passed away when I was 18. It was the worst thing that ever happened to me, but it is not… — Reed Morano Copy Share Image
I didn't want to work with my father. I wanted to see if I could develop my own career. — David Lauren Copy Share Image
Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child? — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
“It had been a seven-year string of bad luck, ever since their parents died in that house fire.” — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
My father had a couple of Mitch Miller records and a Spike Jones record, and that was it. My older brother had… — George Thorogood Copy Share Image
My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky, and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
That's one of the surprises in the research, that's it's not young people who are smitten with their phones. It's their parents… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
There were times when we didn't have enough food on the table. When it came to the end of the month, I… — Felipe Anderson Copy Share Image
You've always reminded me of a seagull, Jo. Strong and wild and fond of the wind and storms. And dreaming of flying… — Victor Heerman Copy Share Image