The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 12… — Conan Stevens Copy Share Image
Maybe someday it will seem quaint that, during a time of plague, some of the parents of the 1990s wanted to deny… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers. — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
I have one of those old-fashioned mothers who told me every single day, 'Son, you can do or be anything that you… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
I think our families or parents were trying to do best by us by telling us, 'Do what you love.' On an… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
I love to make soups. My father used to say, 'There's nothing like a nice bowl of soup.' One of my favorites… — Tony Danza Copy Share Image
My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
“Mathias remembered that once when he was a boy, he'd gone up to a pile of red apples that lay in the… — Riccardo Bruni Copy Share Image
Chinese parents always think you can do better. But it comes from wanting you to succeed. — Alvin Leung Copy Share Image
“Ask a child's guardians what it takes to be good at their jobs, and most will answer with a single word... SACRIFICE.… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
Tinder makes it obvious that I'm not alone in being single and that there are plenty of single parents looking for a… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
“Had my parents allowed me, when I read a book, to pay a visit to the region it described, I should have… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
My parents used to rent old movies - my whole childhood is in black and white - and it was my dream… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Hen I told my mother the extremes I went to in order to make a living, she just shook her head and… — James St James Copy Share Image
“It represented how Mother had lived: reach for the heavens, be firm, be unique, and don’t be swayed by other people’s ideas.… — Mariko Tatsumoto Copy Share Image
Christmas means giving. The Father gave his Son, and the Son gave his life. Without giving there is no true Christmas, and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
You spend years wishing your parents would get off your back, only to realize theyre the only ones who ever really had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a mother goes to the store and purchases food for her child, she has the right to know what she is… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child's approval, more alert to the child's emotional state, and more… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
“I’m there for my son 24/7, because I don’t want him to take the road we took. I believe if I had… — Drexel Deal Copy Share Image
“While Mary brushed my pistachio silk carriage dress, Mama tugged the laces of my corset as tight as they would go. She… — Susan Dennard Copy Share Image
“It sounded old. Deserve. Old and tired and beaten to death. Deserve. Now it seemed to him that he was always saying… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Mother says that people like me just become intellectual old maids,' I told him. 'I don't see why,' he protested. 'Oh, well,… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“cultivation of a willingness to defy, debunk, or just plain old disappoint one’s parents, that is the absolute precondition, now more than… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
“On the whole, there is nobody like one's own mother... I wonder if, after all, mothers are not the best friends there… — Elizabeth Payson Prentiss Copy Share Image
A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“They were my parents. Dead. They died in their bed under freakish circumstances three months ago, leaving my brothers and me devastated… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from… — Shazia Mirza Copy Share Image
Because mothers make us, because they map our emotional terrain before we even know we are capable of having an emotional terrain,… — Rebecca Walker Copy Share Image
“The areas of the cortex responsible for attention and self-regulation develop in response to the emotional interaction with the person whom we… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“I never doubted I would have a roof over my head, a school to go to, enough to to eat, books (and… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“More than anyone in that room, I was aware of exactly the sort of person who did such a thing. What I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager -… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I felt like the luckiest kid in the world with the parents I had. Period. — Alejandro Mayorkas Copy Share Image
Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time. — Dakota Johnson Copy Share Image
