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
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 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Liberals believe in burning the American flag, urinating on crucifixes, and passing out birth control pills to 11-year-olds without telling their parents… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
You didn't have to tell a girl with no legs that she, you know, I knew I was different. I was missing… — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
“Just after my mother died, I grabbed hold of my Divergence like it was a hand outstretched to save me. I needed… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Shane never knew how to address her friends' parents. She wanted to call her Mrs. Eliot's Mom, but knew that the cutesiness… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“...Perhaps you didn't say much about him, mother, but Gerald said lots - dreadful things!' 'Yes,' said the Duchess, 'he said what… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“May I join you?” she asked. Her English was lightly accented with something warm, maybe Spanish or Portuguese. “Please,” I said, standing… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“for they are produced whenever there needs to establish itself in the security necessary to its development a vice which Nature herself… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“A new degree of anger came over him. What did it all matter? What did it matter if the mother talked Polish… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
'Conservative' is a term that resonates differently with people. For us, Tae and I take that as being modest. The easiest way… — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
