“I am ashamed she is ashamed. Because she is my daughter and I am proud of her, and I am her mother… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I've always got on better with boys. Most of my friends are boys. Like, if I have children, I want five boys.… — Adele Copy Share Image
“I’ve heard parents say all they want is “the best” for their children, but the best is subjective and anchored by how… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
My parents own a restaurant in downtown Oakland - Garden House - and I started working there at 8. I'd work the… — Su-chin Pak Copy Share Image
Being a mother comes first for me. Before my husband, before this surrogacy crusade, before myself. I don't see myself as particularly… — Mary Beth Whitehead Copy Share Image
Being pregnant and carrying a child is a blessing unique to womankind and a mother instinctively wants the best for her child. — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
When my father would come home from the track after a good day, the whole room would light up; it was fairyland.… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
I had an exciting, interesting childhood, to be sure, with all of the challenges that ghetto life provides - but had loving… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
“I want to know who killed my father,” Peter growled, shrugging off her fingers and pushing himself away from the wall to… — Deborah Blake Copy Share Image
My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their… — H. David Burton Copy Share Image
I read a column by George Will that SCARFACE should be rated X because parents were taking their children to see it.… — Ian Shoales Copy Share Image
“Except now I think that she isn’t just beautiful in spite of the scar, she’s somehow beautiful with it, like Lynn with… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The thing is, the kids always rebel against what the parents try to push on them so I'm going to pretend like… — Jack Black Copy Share Image
Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fathers, sons, brothers, men everywhere: Your legacy will not perish if you take your partner's surname, or she keeps hers. — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way. — Marat Safin Copy Share Image
Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I'm Blessed to have a mother,who loves her children more then herself...Hope I can find someone like her to be with for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Feeling strong is important, and to feel in your body is a vital part of being a woman, regardless of whether you're… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“There’s one thing I do know. This is not a girl you fuck. This is a girl you take home to meet… — Tammy Falkner Copy Share Image
In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
Spend quality time with your children to make them feel loved, wanted, worthy and build their self-esteem up so they go out… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I am already experiencing something better than being a pop star and that's being a father. It's the best job in the… — A. J. McLean Copy Share Image
“You know," he said to his mother, "I don't want to belong to the well-to-do middle class. I like my common people… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back,… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
Both parents worshiped individual achievement, but because of the Depression and the war, they never achieved what they wanted and deserved. So… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Our law enforcement must be given every tool available to protect children from predators and parents need to know who is living… — Robin Hayes Copy Share Image
When other people share their stories, even if it's a parent who is fighting it, even if it's a sibling who is… — Dagen McDowell Copy Share Image
“He called you a mother fucker, but with Farlander, the way you decline a word lends additional negativity or positivity. He said… — Megan Derr Copy Share Image
Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I ached to grow up even more than I dreaded to. I craved escape from my parents' impositions on… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase. — Clive Barnes Copy Share Image
“If I weren't a ghost tied to my dead mother in the lake--if I had things I wanted to do and a… — Dot Hutchison Copy Share Image
What Lady Gaga will answer when she will be asked about F grade exam results by her parents? Lady Gaga-'i was born… — Bidhata Narzary Copy Share Image
There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
