I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe were all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother. — Vikas Swarup Copy Share Image
I am not always a hands-on mother, but the feelings of motherhood are the same. — Rituparna Sengupta Copy Share Image
You grow up to become living proof of your parents' limitations. Their less-than masterpiece. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
A happy family needs a loving and caring father, and he who knows how to be a mother sometimes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother said I would have more chances to become a tennis player than a football player. — Marat Safin Copy Share Image
“People go through life eating lamb chops and breaking their mother’s hearts.” — Eve Babitz Copy Share Image
I spent my summers in a war zone because my parents were afraid that if we didn't go back to Palestine every… — Maysoon Zayid Copy Share Image
“Mother Nature’s no dingbat. She didn’t package the good stuff with bad stuff so she could watch us struggle for thousands of… — Liz Wolfe Copy Share Image
From kindergarten, I knew that politics is something that you talk about only at home, because if you weren't quiet, your parents… — Kersti Kaljulaid Copy Share Image
Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Someone did once bow to me, and my mother immediately told them off. Although whether she was prompted by the breach of… — David Linley Copy Share Image
Thank you ... San Francisco. All right, you're ruining the show. Thank you ... for clapping for what my parents are ashamed of. — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
The most influential people in my life are deceased. These include my parents, George Dunne, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., my… — Jesse White Copy Share Image
I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father's house, as to be happier when their… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I have never considered myself a writer in exile because I grew up outside of my own country, because my father was… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“Stirling, Scotland, October 1619 "Kristina, wake up and ready yourself for a journey!" In her bedchamber, Kristina MacQueen jolted awake. Had she… — Vonda Sinclair Copy Share Image
Television was restricted by my parents. They encouraged reading more than anything. It wasn't done in a let's-get-educated kind of way, it… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
I distinctly remember watching Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot, and my parents were discussing the fact that hes an actor.… — Dominique McElligott Copy Share Image
A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
Growing up, my parents always told me, 'while you're out there you always have to have fun with it. You can't play… — Ja Morant Copy Share Image