In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
One has to do everything at the right time. That includes motherhood. — Sharmila Tagore Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear a baby's cry I immediately look for my baby. It's a mothers instinct. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother was a big reader, and my father was an editorial writer for a newspaper. — Sandra Brown Copy Share Image
My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine. — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television. — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“...tried to be faultless as a parent, but still she worries that in the end, all her love for her daughter will… — Shilpi Somaya Gowda Copy Share Image
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
It's quite funny. I grew up with my mother: as a designer, she was always working, and I actually used to say… — Emilia Wickstead Copy Share Image
People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children. — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Eloiseis getting married as well.” “Eloise?” Michael asked with some surprise. “Was she even being courted by anyone?” “No,” Francesca said, quickly… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I wish my parents hadn't made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I… — Arabella Weir Copy Share Image
My father, who was a good deal older than my mother, had basically grown up with silent films; sound didn't arrive until… — Peter Bogdanovich Copy Share Image
Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything…I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate… — David Sheff Copy Share Image
Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of it. I know that… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
We have found fathers and grandfathers of children with autism are more likely to be engineers. — Simon Baron-Cohen Copy Share Image
I think it's very wrong to be an unwed mother. You give your child the stigma of illegitimacy. — Zeenat Aman Copy Share Image
(mother)" She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air. — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I was so ugly my parents had to hang a pork chop around my neck to get the dog to play with… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him. — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
“One of the gentleman guests chuckled. "Do you think the mother made up the story out of whole cloth?” — Sharyn McCrumb Copy Share Image
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Parents are tired of being ignored when it comes to their children's education. — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
“Dear Lord,' I whisper, 'Our Father in Heaven, I thank Thee. I thank Thee.” — Borghild Dahl Copy Share Image
