When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
Muhammad was the exemplar ruler, exemplar father, exemplar warrior, and once you have a family, you have contentions, you have problems, human… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“The foundation is an aggressive, well-financed p.r. machine adept at manipulating the press, harassing its critics, and mobilizing a diverse army of… — Mike Stanton Copy Share Image
When I was young and growing up in New York, my parents took me to children's theater quite often - elaborate presentations… — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
I used to play my records aloud until one night my mother was like, "This is too loud. I'm not having it,"… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
In the last few years, losing my father, going through a divorce and not getting some jobs I really wanted, is making… — John Stamos Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a mother, and when I got the show I was really upset. I was like "I'm not… — Jackee Harry Copy Share Image
Parents who are cowed by temper tantrums and screaming defiance are only inviting more of the same. Young children become more cooperative… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
“I do not consider myself a religious person, because I don't adhere to a particular religion or faith or prescribed beliefs, as… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
My parents, who were split up, were so good at keeping my environment strong and keeping everything around me not focused on… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
My favorite show of my father Aaron Spelling is probably a show that was his favorite and that was a show called… — Tori Spelling Copy Share Image
“Good fathers, and by that I mean real fathers who are there, have the ability to change almost every social problem we… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
Home' was a special album for very specific reasons. It is an homage to my father. And it is the first classical… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
“Standing out there in th dark, I felt many different things. One of them was pride in my fellow Americans, ordinary people… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
“Mother Teresa once said: When Jesus came into the world, He loved it so much that He gave His life for it.… — Heidi Baker Copy Share Image
I remember when I first wanted to act my parents were supportive, but it was that they were like please, if you… — Troian Bellisario Copy Share Image
My parents were only one part of my lineage. I also met a number of mentors, one of whom I nicknamed "Socrates"… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
When I became a mother, I was trying so hard, using reusable diapers, washing them, looking for organic supplies even though it's… — Severn Cullis-Suzuki Copy Share Image
With both parents in the workforce 100 percent of the time, there's just no way to care for somebody on the side… — Amelia Warren Tyagi Copy Share Image
If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was lucky in that I had a mother that was full of this colloquial wisdom and she used to say to… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Dear parents, I'm sorry I'm such a disappointment. I'm sorry I cant make good enough grades. I'm sorry I cant live up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I turned to look at my quiet, bookish mother, a woman I had honestly never seen swat a fly. “I’m sorry, but… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
“We’re like rednecks then, zaydeh.” “What are you talking about? I was educated well. I know six languages. I manage the family… — Stuart Rojstaczer Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, my mother would try to convince me of a woman's need for a secret stash. "It can… — Zinzi Clemmons Copy Share Image
I'd like to see mothers at home be more assertive, be unapologetic, give themselves permission, and to stand up for themselves as… — Jo Frost Copy Share Image
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to… — Bible Copy Share Image
In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape. For a short while, our mothers' bodies are the… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
My mom had this inate ability. Whatever town my mother moved to, the second she walked into town, she would instantly attract… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
“Genetics means that my parents really aren't my parents. I know Galen has thought this all along, but I still can't accept… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
“You see parents as kind or unkind or happy or miserable or drunk or sober or great or near-great or failed the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The sound of their voices mingled with the whicker of horses, the clank of steel, and the groaning hinges of the great… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces. In order… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
You have to convince the adults that if a child is to learn his culture, he or she will have to see… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Whether when I was a child and fought the British in the Monkey brigade, or when I was a girl and wanted… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I remember saying to my mother, ‘Why do you have so many children? Is it hard to have children?’ And she said,… — Margaret Powell Copy Share Image
I have always been surrounded by women with strong personality and feminine: my mother, my sister, my aunts, my friends. I am… — Jeanne Damas Copy Share Image
“Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on my controlled father. I wanted… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
