“It was time to face the second hardest fact in her life; she had a dead mother, and a father who was… — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
“Love is a creative act. When you love someone you create a new world for them. My mother did that for me,… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I remember telling my mom, 'Mom, I'm gay, but I'm not going to march in a parade or anything.' That's what I… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
I don't think my father noticed that he had daughters. I think, you know, part of the damage of the childhood was,… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
Just the responsibility of wanting to see my mother have a better life; making sure my sister had a better life. I… — Yo Gotti Copy Share Image
“With her parents modeling such brutal favoritism, Sallie joined right in. She constantly belittled Tina and joined in with the taunts of… — Kat Spencer Copy Share Image
When I was 11, I moved to Los Angeles to live with my father and stepmother and my half brothers. I became… — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make...The nice thing about my… — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
My mother was the first African-American policewoman in Seattle - recruited, actually - and she did it for only 2 years, as… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The struggle in Mr. Guppy’s breast and the numerous oscillations it occasioned him between his mother’s door and us were sufficiently conspicuous… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But parents aren't the only ones who can address stereotype threat. There's a lot that educators at all levels can do. Dr.… — Michele Stephenson Copy Share Image
There seems to be a notion that a single woman can't represent the interests of mothers. Frankly, there were plenty of Republican… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
“We aren’t who we want to be. We are what society demands. We are what our parents choose. We don’t want to… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
My husband has always seen this as a partnership. He is so self-sacrificing in parenting, caring for our household and my career.… — Ketanji Brown Jackson Copy Share Image
The belief when your mother gives you away is that there's something deeply wrong. Mothers don't give babies away. There's something wrong… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a one in front… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
My mother always taught me never to look back in regret but to move on to the next thing. The amount of… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I talk to my kids about my mothers energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and… — Lemon Andersen Copy Share Image
It [the Constitution] didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The portrait rattles and goes still. I wonder if the dream would do my mother any good. I wonder if all that… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
EARTH LIFE with its joys and sorrows is a necessary part of our eternal existence. Its purposes are to prepare us to… — Alma P Burton Copy Share Image
MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“But she wasn't a wife and mother. And, Joey aside, she didn't want to be one. Her mother had spend every last… — Deeanne Gist Copy Share Image
“O burn the house! You've murdered the husband, slaughtered the cattle, poisoned the well, raped the mother, killed the child - you… — Edward Bond Copy Share Image
The law of the [Cub Scout] pack guides the boys to move in the direction of being helpful, friendly, courteous, trustworthy and… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
“I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce and then to abandon them,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I am pretty conventional, I was raised by a strict mother who said, 'Be sure to open doors and say please thank… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
“may be tempting to dismiss these findings as by-products of midlife rather than the presence of teenagers in the house. But Steinberg’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In hindsight I can see that my love for the arts began by watching my father and his colleagues perform on stage… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
“That was when I saw their hate come out. They fought on the front lawn. Balloons and my birthday cake stood witness… — Joseph McGinnis Copy Share Image
I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Going back to my mother's passing, there was no way I could hold back my tears or sense of grief at knowing… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
“Each time Anna moved from her father’s world to her mother and Lydia’s, she felt as if she’d shaken free of one… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“. . . a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; a stone, a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces.… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image