My parents were entrepreneurs. I grew up believing in the power of innovation. — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education. — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
My mother was a beautiful lady, elegant, chic, and that was the biggest inspiration to me. — Hubert de Givenchy Copy Share Image
The value of holding a grudge. And to always refer to my father sarcastically as Mr. Wonderful. — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I'm a very secretive person. That's how I grew up. My father was very secretive. — Isabelle Adjani Copy Share Image
Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are? — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.'… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
To me, full-time mothering felt like way too much and yet not nearly enough. Lost in a landslide of diapers, birthday parties,… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.'… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you don't... you… — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
“Life is the bitch and death is her sister. Sleep is the cousin, what a fuckin' family picture. You know father time,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mom was a working woman. She made more money than my dad. Both my parents worked. And this was in the… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
“The boy could see in his father's gaze a desire to be able, himself, to travel the world—a desire that was still… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I'm told my father cemented a number of profitable deals in this room." Alan eased down beside her. Shelby opened her eyes… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Remember every one that calls Thee Father. May a Father's love look on all the children. May the special need of each… — B. Aguilera Copy Share Image
I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
'Dad, Dad, I'm getting married.' 'Sh-sh, don't say it. Nothing, nothing. Don't do anything.' So he honestly - 'cause he was taught… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
I'm the lucky father to two young men. When any of your kids, and your parents feel this way about you, clearly,… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
“The power to parent will be transferred to whomever the child depends on, whether or not that person is truly dependable, appropriate,… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
I'll bet your father spent the first year of your life throwing rocks at the stork. — Irving Brecher Copy Share Image
I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie. — Bernadette Peters Copy Share Image
The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative. — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Visiting Spain does not excite me as much as making my parents proud does. — Geeta Phogat Copy Share Image
When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!' — Sally Field Copy Share Image
“Thus bound together, they sheltered the child from the cold, dark night, enveloping him in warmth.” — Seth Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Every father thinks that his son is an idiot, but only my dad is right. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. -Proverbs 1:8 — Bible Copy Share Image
“[My father,] A man who had been taught only to destroy found it hard to create.” — Nadia Hashimi Copy Share Image
“Father continues to make the vulgar error,” she said, “that to a woman, love is her whole existence.” — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image