My mother wanted to be a mother. That's the only thing she wanted from the bottom of her heart. She didn't want… — Prateik Babbar Copy Share Image
“Even now, I found it difficult to believe that my father could or might be dying. He had always been a strong… — Ann Marston Copy Share Image
A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't… — Lewis Grizzard Copy Share Image
My relationship with my father still troubles me because it never got resolved, and there was no closure. There was a lot… — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to… — Carol Vorderman Copy Share Image
My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“But even thinking that brought on an incredible isolation, a suspicion she'd always had, she didn't belong anywhere, she was going to… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“And what is a friend? More than a father, more than a brother: a traveling companion, with him, you can conquer the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Had He (Jesus) not offered Himself through the Holy Ghost, He would not be accepted in the eyes of God the Father.… — Benny Hinn Copy Share Image
“Gwen was kind of amazed. A mother with several degrees and a prestigious position at an Ivy League college did not ensure… — Shelly Laurenston Copy Share Image
Often, when there is a conflict between parent and child, at its very hub is an expectation that the child should be… — Ellen Galinsky Copy Share Image
“I have always been a creature of knowledge. When the other children drew flowers in the sand, I drew plans for war.… — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of… — Adam Clayton Powell, Jr Copy Share Image
“How you figure that, grom? Your mother’s the Destroyer. It’s a title she not only earned, but one she relishes. And you’re… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“What do we say to a guest who forgets her umbrella? Do we run after her and say "What is the matter… — Haim G. Ginott Copy Share Image
I define the terms "founding fathers" and "founders" broadly to include an entire generation or two of Americans from many walks of… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
Single mothers have as much to teach their children as married mothers and as much love to share--maybe more. Yet their motives… — Anne Cassidy Copy Share Image
The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
My mother was born in June and later, feeling a vacancy, chose her birth month for her middle name. Marry to marry,… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
“I dont tell him I hate him yet. Maybe I never will. I dont know what good it would do to let… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Launching a kid into college is about more than having the money to pay for it. Parents invest so much of their… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
There are many important elements to being a parent. A lot of people don't have fathers but they might have someone in… — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
“I'd hoped at least one of my parents had seen Milo and me standing close together on the sidewalk, still holding hands,… — R.J. Anderson Copy Share Image
“They're horrible little creatures. All snot and smelly feet and pestering questions." "Then why did you go into teaching?" "It was either… — Brian Francis Copy Share Image
Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?" "Yes, someone did." "A Man?" "A Man." "Which means," said Bod, "you're… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Where I grew up in Pakistan, it's really the luck of the draw. My mother got married when she was 17. She… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
“I left him with only that--the simple story that he had been with his mother this entire time, that he had helped… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
“Ah me! think, sister, how our father perished, amid hate and scorn, when sins bared by his own search had moved him… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
There is no substitute for obedience to the commands and demands of the gospel, of doing what we are supposed to do… — David S. Baxter Copy Share Image
It's one of the bases of all human existence - the relation between parents and children, whether biologically or metaphorically. It's something… — Eugene Green Copy Share Image
I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted the education to be influenced by… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
“Too many children live with the feeling that they are not accepted for who they are, that, somehow, they are “disappointing” their… — Myla Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
My father was an electrical engineer. He's presently 92 and still could be holding down a job. He had a very analytical… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
