“At the end of the day, can you look back and say to yourself, "Today, my mother would be proud of me… — Patrick Henry Hughes Copy Share Image
What occurred to me on [‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’], and also with the passing of her mother, is that there's… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
In a country that provides no subsidized child care and no mandatory family leave, no assurance of flexibility in the workplace for… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
“What is peer orientation? Orientation, the drive to get one's bearings and become acquainted with one's surroundings, is a fundamental human instinct… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
Republican establishment figures have fallen for the claim that suburban mothers can be turned Democrat by attacks on Republicans as racist. They… — Mollie Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Maybe, if she finished this painting, her father would see that her mother's life hadn't gone unfinished, that her art would live… — Deanna Lynn Sletten Copy Share Image
“But you knew my mother. She was your neighbor—” “This is an official Clave investigation.” Jace cut her off. “I can always… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“My mother used to say, Preeto, there is never a right or a wrong side to a problem, but there can be… — Sanchit Gupta Copy Share Image
“Mrs. (Fanie Lou) Hamer, like her mother, also kept weapons nearby in case she needed them: 'I keep a shotgun in every… — Charles E. Cobb Jr Copy Share Image
“but I would have to make myself presentable for when my father honored me with my full warrior status. Just like he… — Lesley Livingston Copy Share Image
“And I can think of no more accurate description of how most of us parents feel far too much of the time.… — Hal Edward Runkel Copy Share Image
A woman’s moral influence is nowhere more powerfully felt or more beneficially employed than in the home. There is no better setting… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
“Spoken both like your mother and father's son and sirius's true godson' said Dumbledore, with an approving pat on Harry's back. ,I… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
We live in a society now where it's very rare for your parents to be around. It used to be like, your… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
“Jesus had not come to condemn the immoral; he had come to rescue them. He had come to gather those who were… — Kenneth D. Boa Copy Share Image
My father, my uncles, my aunts, from my father's side and my mother's side... they were all professional musicians. My father was… — Lalo Schifrin Copy Share Image
Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Let's be real: dads get a bad rap in the media. We're talking Vanilla Ice's 'Ninja Rap' bad. More often than not,… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
“No one loves me,-no one cares for me, but you, mother.' (...) She put her hands on his shoulders; she was a… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Only common mortals like the Somervilles have good old rotten hates, dear,' said her mother. 'Sir Graham manages to love everybody and… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
My sister and I used to do crazy things when our parents wouldn't buy us fancy things. We really wanted this Calvin… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I guess I was very fortunate; I had a very very, lets put it this way, I had very wonderful upbringing and… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Copy Share Image
I knew I didn't want to pursue an academic career at all, which, of course, my father would have loved me to… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
My parents were opera singers. I didn't want to play opera because I wasn't good enough. I didn't want to play their… — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
People without fathers tend to have two predominant characteristics. They tend to believe anything is possible. At the same time there's an… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
“I remembered how Belinda the Jungle Witch helped us before. But the problem was that she wasn’t around. So, I came to… — Zack Zombie Copy Share Image
“Brenna, Beth, Britt…and Blake. Did your parents stop watching Sesame Street after the letter B and didn’t realize there was more to… — Sarina Bowen Copy Share Image
My father and I talked every day. He coached me on how to cold-call companies I wanted in our portfolio, how to… — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“the way out the door. It was Tuesday, August 12, 1952. His mother should have been heading to work down at the… — D.M. Pulley Copy Share Image
No matter where you're born in life or what the circumstances are when you're born, like your parents being poor or not… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
In my early life my mother tried to create a nurturing environment in which my mind could play. Her big rule was… — Joey Reiman Copy Share Image
“I have comic-book loving, pop-culture-obsessed parents. The coolest. I’m sure the two Meadows girls and the seven Cobalt children would protest and… — Krista Ritchie Copy Share Image
Radley rolled his eyes. He actually rolled his eyes at my father. Alpha of the south-central territory and head of the Territorial… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“What’s yuh firs’ name? VICARRO: Silva. JAKE: How do you spell it? VICARRO: S-I-L-V-A. JAKE: Silva! Like a silver lining! Ev’ry cloud… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“When I was twenty they told me to swear loyalty to the King, a person who acts in the capacity because his… — Pitigrilli Copy Share Image
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that.… — June Carter Cash Copy Share Image