I think some of my inspiration came from just being around music. My family was into music. My uncle had his own… — Nelly Copy Share Image
“There are many different ways of approaching parenting as there are cultures. However, in non-industrialized cultures, the similarities are also striking. Extended… — Ingrid Bauer Copy Share Image
Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Then my mother shocked me. She said, " All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You would think that growing up in a foreign country would be so easy and fitting in would be a piece of… — Shibani Dandekar Copy Share Image
To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today's story is that fatherhoodis… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
My childhood was epitomized by my parents who were uneducated but had a doctorate in love. My dad pressed coats and through… — Dick Vitale Copy Share Image
“Having kids means taking care of them, raising them, loving and supporting them, and none of those things have anything to do… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“At first Christ was a man – nothing more. Mary was his mother, Joseph his father. The genealogy of his father, Joseph,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A real man doesn't have to run from his mother, and may even have to face the reality that no great deed… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I… — Rupert Everett Copy Share Image
“Yes, he had survived, he had outlived Father, he had fallen in love and started a family. But he was still a… — Jeremy Duns Copy Share Image
“In the inky stillness of the next morning, Lisette woke up and dressed quietly in the silks her elderly mother still sent… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
The face of the Son of God, who, instead of accepting the sacrifice of one of his creatures to satisfy his justice… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“The most important thing in my life is to be the best mother that I can be to my daughter and two… — Ana Monnar Copy Share Image
“We are trapped in a net of our our own self-doubt, on the programming force fed to us by parents, schools, society.… — Chloe Thurlow Copy Share Image
I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I want parents out there to know that it's totally natural for kids to make believe and play games. It does not… — Alexis Arquette Copy Share Image
“At home, my mother had known how to suffocate my dad's anger by growing silent, a low, unwavering flame of contempt that… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Children don't understand, when things aren't given. The single parent struggling to provide; how they sacrifice themselves, by sweeping their dreams and… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“This was Josie’s preferred method of parenting: go someplace like this, with grand scale and much to be discovered, and watch your… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“And now I say to you, Yeva Luchcova: will you remain here with the father who tried to sell you, or the… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“Educator Jennifer Fox, author of Your Child’s Strengths: A Guide for Parents and Teachers, would agree. In her book she explains that… — Julie Lythcott-Haims Copy Share Image
According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child… I was even inclined to dig into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to. Little sacrifices.… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
When guys come over to date my daughter, I'm going to tell them, 'I want you to go out and have a… — Conrad Dobler Copy Share Image
And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“And therefore to-day is thrilling With a past day's late fulfilling; And the multitudes are enlisted In the faith that their fathers… — Arthur O'Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
“Death is the father of all fears. He is as inevitable as he is inescapable. Accept the fact that he will come… — Navessa Allen Copy Share Image
“Children need time to become themselves--through play and social interaction. If you overwhelm a child with stuff--with choices and pseudochoices--before they are… — Kim John Payne Copy Share Image
“Ben had never seen his mother cry before, and it startled him, so he didn't ask again. Right afterward she'd put on… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
There are a lot of sacrifices a mother makes when she's raising a child by herself. I saw it when I was… — Christina Applegate Copy Share Image
In 1985, I joined my mother in a protest against apartheid in which we were arrested at the South African embassy in… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
The kids now, on "Junior," we educate the parents and it's quite a fascinating turnaround. You can just see the parents thinking,… — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
I mean, for years [my father] would been doing everything imaginable ... from speed to downers to you name it. I used… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra,… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
“When I live in the age of miracles," Allan said, "your mother was the greatest miracles of all. Just by standing near… — Dexter Palmer Copy Share Image
![“Then my mother shocked me. She said, " All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted those things too." [She] showed me the handful of bullets she'd had to bite over the decades in order to stay happily married (and she was happily married...) to my father. "You…” quote by Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da8/elizabeth-gilbert-131_bullets_then-my-mother-shocked-me-she-said-all-t_3072779.jpg)
![“And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children. [Isaiah] describes the condition when [he] states, "As for my people, children are their oppressors, and…” quote by Ezra Taft Benson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d4/ezra-taft-benson-443_abortion_and-so-today-the-undermining-of-the-home_1407322.png)
![“I mean, for years [my father] would been doing everything imaginable ... from speed to downers to you name it. I used to call that "changing seats on the Titanic," and I used to say that I myself was not only changing seats on the Titanic but dating the crew.” quote by Carrie Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c64/carrie-fisher-927_crew_i-mean-for-years-my-father-would-been-do_377200.jpg)
