My mother always told me if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it. — Donald Faison Copy Share Image
The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them. — Frank A. Clark Copy Share Image
Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply. — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“We have ears everywhere, you know, Father. The Gestapo is like God. We hear all things.” — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
To get me in to the Army underage, my mother signed me in saying that my birth certificate was lost in a… — Robert Downey Sr Copy Share Image
As a parent, I want my kids to have an optimistic outlook, and one that has hope, and that makes sense, where… — Dee Bradley Baker Copy Share Image
“… human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life… — Erich Auerbach Copy Share Image
The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney. — Betty Rollin Copy Share Image
“My father, she insisted, was not born deaf. “Insisted” because there was an even greater stigma attached to genetic deafness (and the… — Lou Ann Walker Copy Share Image
“Critical to my understanding of myself was that my parents may have been storytellers, but I was the writer in my family,… — Cherise Wolas Copy Share Image
I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
Many benefit cuts hit single parents hardest and punish children by forcing their families into destitution. — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for… — Bess Myerson Copy Share Image
“My mother calls it 'the black tax.' Because the generations who came before you have been pillaged, rather than being free to… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
“Scientists talk about how we inherit health issues from our parents through our genes, but we also inherit this entire lineage of… — Kevin Kwan Copy Share Image
As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
“I have the pearl, though, secured in a parachute with the spile and the medicine at my waist. I hope it makes… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“RAIJIN, TAKE ME NOW. She shot Buruu a withering glance as he rolled over on his back and pawed at the sky.… — Jay Kristoff Copy Share Image
“My advice is to make a point of apologizing to your child about something at least twice a month. Why twice a… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
“So, tell me, Ford—is that a family name? Or did your parents just like trucks?” — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
“As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb...I realized that I had made a mistake,” — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I grew up on planes. My father has a licence, and I have memories of being in the cockpit at age five. — Hayden Christensen Copy Share Image
Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents. — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill. — Cam Newton Copy Share Image
Some men are Baptists, others Catholics. My father was an Oldsmobile man. — Jean Shepherd Copy Share Image
I grew up in a nonpolitical family. My mother basically hated everybody. — Alan Colmes Copy Share Image
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Should I apologize to my mother or the world for not listening to her when I was younger?” — Eric Michael Moberg Copy Share Image
