My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers. — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
Baby father bullshittin, you two dont even speak. Aint seen his seed in 14 days, that nigga too week. — Wale Copy Share Image
My mother, Agnes Dereon Beyince, was a seamstress and designer, and her passion passed down to me. — Tina Knowles Copy Share Image
Difficult but worth it-- that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi. — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
Until the killing of black men, black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I was a very earnest, hard working boy at school, but my parents were distressed because I was always bottom of the… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“I was afraid of the sea when I was a girl. Someone said it went on forever and that frightened me. I… — Simon Van Booy Copy Share Image
At a certain point, the struggles with teaching and mothering and so on and so forth, those decline, those lessen. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Parents do tend to judge each other. I don’t know why. Maybe because none of us really know what we’re doing?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and… — Ludovico Einaudi Copy Share Image
What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend… — Gene Tierney Copy Share Image
“every parent will leave a personal legacy (though not all parents will leave behind an inheritance). what i give to my children… — Reggie Joiner Copy Share Image
On the Upper East Side, women are prisoners to the ideology of intensive motherhood, which is that you should be enriching your… — Wednesday Martin Copy Share Image
“Some parents cannot distinguish between punishment and discipline. Anyone can punish a child and many parents do it out of frustration. Discipline… — Eric W. Hickey Copy Share Image
“See the man they are fitting into the bottom slot. He is coughing badly. No, not pneumonia. Not tuberculosis. Nothing so picturesque.… — Helen Zenna Smith Copy Share Image
“I am ashamed to say this, but as a child, neither my parents not my teachers pushed me to read. In fact,… — Daniel Whyte III Copy Share Image
But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And… — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Copy Share Image
Just as children, step by step, must separate from their parents, we will have to separate from them. And we will probably… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I know this is insane, but i somehow wish i had been in auschwitz with my parents so i could really know… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
Every mother and daughter should make time for a trip together. It's good for the soul. — Anne Robinson Copy Share Image
“I'm sure their mother was in a childbirth fog when she named them Timothy and Tamsyn.” — Paddy O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself. — Sally Pearson Copy Share Image
The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage. — Smiley Blanton Copy Share Image
The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“Many of us are failed secret attempts to keep our parents together.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
one forgives parents as naturally as one emancipates oneself from them - usually shortly afterward. — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
“Why should "Honor thy father and thy mother" be a commandment, and "Honor thy child" not?” — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
I love TV. Always have. Since my mother told me to stop sitting so close and watching so much. — Kevin Reilly Copy Share Image
“As a Father, I willingly nurture & protect the Soul's of all those - I love.” — Eleesha Copy Share Image
“parenting matters, even to the extent of influencing our inborn and genetically shaped temperament.” — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
