My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
“Stalin scribbled on an intelligence report predicting that Hitler would attack the Soviet Union in June 1941: 'You can send your "source"… — Ion Mihai Pacepa Copy Share Image
Camille Hanks, whose upper-middle-class parents both had college degrees, was a student at the University of Maryland planning on a teaching career… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
For me, playing a mother was a point of resistance; the question of 'will I get typecast' was going on in my… — Kirti Kulhari Copy Share Image
You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child. — Dogen Copy Share Image
I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The real mother is not like when the woman pregnant and they have theyself called mom. When you take care with you… — Nini Win Copy Share Image
I've always been this way. My father taught this to me. Here's the thing, you have to understand; the thing about having… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
Fake Friends: Never ask for food. Real Friends: Are the reason you have no food. Fake Friends: Call your parents Mr. and… — Skye Kierstead Copy Share Image
Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
Come awake, Tom. Fathers can willfully hurt their children. They can be addicts too weak to give up their vices, no matter… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
What happened to me is that as I grew up, I found that I was smart. My mother had insisted on that… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Both my parents were agnostic. My mother was kind of a Buddhist. She had some spiritual tendencies, but they were kind of… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time… — Cindy Crawford Copy Share Image
My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
When I came out to my parents, I knew that they knew. My father was like, 'Are you sure?' I literally said,… — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
A lot of people, even my parents, thought, "Art school, I don't know. We'll support you but the success rate for artists… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
“My parents wanted their daughter back, and I haven't had the courage to tell them she's long gone. Haven't found a way… — Charlie Donlea Copy Share Image
When my mother and I walked to the grocery store, men would circle the block in cars. It was very, very scary,… — Ryan Gosling Copy Share Image
My parents came a long time ago to Vienna, met in Vienna. Of course they had to go through a lot also,… — David Alaba Copy Share Image
There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to… — Leslie Nielsen Copy Share Image
Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control). — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“One day his fingers will grow knobby, he will start to sag. I pray to the goddesses, the gods, the eggs, the… — Jessica Bates Copy Share Image
Every day my children's eyes are fixed upon me...I want them to see vibrant and beautiful things when they picture me in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tribe cats are named after the first thing their mother sees, but I thing this would lead to a lot of kits… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
“All I knew was, my Father was famous for being a loser, and a loser that wanted nothing to do with me,… — Holly Hood Copy Share Image
My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performing universe of her… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I was born into a household where my aunt, grandmother and mother lived their music. They all sang harmony, and by the… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working… — Val Kilmer Copy Share Image
“I fight for the freedom that we all have as human beings. The freedom to live the way we want,the freedom to… — Mainak Dhar Copy Share Image
I always told my mother when I was growing up that I was going to go pro in something, and it came… — Demaryius Thomas Copy Share Image
August Wilson is the one writer that writes about men like my father, who had a fifth grade education, who was a… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
I swear I respect all mother's because they have it the hardest most of em are single moms who are being moms… — Michael Myers Jr Copy Share Image
Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
My own father flipped out on me when I told him we decided to ditch our doctor and go with a midwife… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
Mom is such a special word, the loviest I've ever heard. A toast to you above all the rest, Mom you're so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
