Necessity is not merely the father of invention; it is the father of courage. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father had the main barber- and beauty-supply business in the African-American community in Buffalo. — Helene D. Gayle Copy Share Image
“My mother said my father had a drop of dragon blood.” “Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
A co-founder is like being somebody's parent: You want to make sure your offspring thrive. — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My mother never wanted me to focus on my physical self. She always said that beauty is what you do. — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
The Mother of Ignorance is always pregnant. But at Sean Price house, the b**ch have twins! — Sean Price Copy Share Image
I'd watch my father get up at 5 o'clock and go down to the Eastern Market in Detroit to do the shopping… — Ed Bradley Copy Share Image
“I am all the daughters of my father’s house, And all the brothers too. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night, ACT 2, SCENE 4” — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
Thanks to my mother, people tell me I look younger than I am, especially without make-up. And I suppose my father had… — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
Emotional damage is never easy to measure, but mothers who are alive but psychically absent impose filial burdens which knot their children's… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother,… — Prince Andrew Copy Share Image
“I went to law school for the same reason everyone else goes to law school: I had no idea what to do… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I couldn't ask for better parents. I keep that at the forefront of whatever I do, and every time I feel like… — Tiger Shroff Copy Share Image
“Your mother’s chili was onions, hamburger, tomato soup, kidney beans, no chili powder, no peppers. Mexican flags flew at half staff every… — Dennis Vickers Copy Share Image
My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But when my father got… — Jared Kushner Copy Share Image
The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Marco Cirrini had been skiing on the north face of Bald Slope Mountain since he was a boy, using the old skis… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers. They had been tenant farmers like so many people in… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“It was the gift that every girl dreams of, to be dead long enough for your parents to realize how meaningless their… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
“Not long, not long my father said Not long shall you be ours The Raven King knows all too well Which are… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Forget your pain. It was what I said when I took Father's hand in the drawing room yesterday, what I repeated again… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the people we love do nothing to deserve it. I have fucked up parents, so I get it.” — A.J. Sand Copy Share Image
“The day we serve humanity, as we serve our mothers, we shall find Allah.” — Zarina Bibi Copy Share Image
“My parents haven’t reached out to me once. They’re religious but not godly.” — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
“Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.” — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them. — Valerie Trierweiler Copy Share Image
My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15. — Vikram Chatwal Copy Share Image
I believe in love at first sight because when I opened my eyes I saw my mother first… — Sanchi Vikas Copy Share Image
My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards. — Rihanna Copy Share Image
(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Children have a lot more to worry about from the parents who raised them than from the books they read. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
No parent or coach can be true to any child and say he's ready for the N.F.L. out of high school. — Tony Dorsett Copy Share Image
One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids. — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
