As a child I was given the freedom to explore my passion for acting, but I also grew up in a home… — Emmanuelle Chriqui Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up in a voting culture. My father didn't push voting on me, my mother didn't push voting on me.… — Jelly Roll Copy Share Image
My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920. — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband's, if she has a shining pride, they become a… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were. — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
My father would give his dinner to any hungry kids who walked by and then go in the backyard and pick weeds… — Chi Chi Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Just us two men," my father said, my father who had so longed for a son that he had flown paper planes--adoption… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
To be a good enough parent one must be able to feel secure in one's parenthood, and one's relation to one's child...The… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“Seldom do men realize how often God heeds their prayers. He is not partial to a few, but listens to everyone who… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“I wanted to turn on the table saw and rip a plank, but I had to drive to the airport. I had… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
“Poor William! That dear child; he now sleeps with his angel mother. His friends mourn and weep, but he is at rest:… — Mary Shelly Copy Share Image
My father was from Northern Ireland, and coming from somewhere like that, your faith defines you. That's something we don't really understand… — Anna Maxwell Martin Copy Share Image
I lost my girl a couple years back, Aaliyah, in a plane crash. I wasn't expecting that, and also, my mother died,… — Damon Dash Copy Share Image
I grew up in Ireland, in the Wicklow Mountains just behind Dublin, and got a job in a Volkswagen garage when I… — Charley Boorman Copy Share Image
“The idea for the Guild first came up at a party. Your father and I met there and, well, I suppose that's… — Sonny and Ais Copy Share Image
You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
My father used to control the wholesale of many ice-cream items in Middlesbrough. He was central distributor for most of the region. — Chris Rea Copy Share Image
“Mother nature is a fickle and forgetful bitch," she snapped. "She needs a helping hand and I am trying to hurry her… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
“What is wrong with your parents? It’s just reading. As a parent myself, I can certainly think of worse habits than reading.… — John Green Copy Share Image
When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I'd expressed how… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
“at the sky, thinking about space and time and my mother, who was both my past and my present, and who, for… — Camille Pagán Copy Share Image
“Luca had many strengths and powers; as a rare blood born, conceived and born to a vampire mother and father, he was… — Linda Howard Copy Share Image
“The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Parents always teach their kids not to talk to strangers¦ But the truth is that, all our good friends were ones strangers… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“A mother has two hands but performs jobs of many arms. You will never be able to do the impossible until you… — Gloria D. Gonsalves Copy Share Image
My father he was very dominant. He was the king of the castle, you know what I'm saying? Don't say 'why, Daddy?',… — Lisa Left Eye Copy Share Image
“I just heard from your father. There has been a sea-change from the top in the Molinaro family. You and Patrick can… — Leta Blake Copy Share Image
It is devastating, losing a parent. I don't really know what the effect is, but I suppose people might call me an… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
I was born in an elevator, and - as my mother said - naturally it was going down. She said, "All I… — Jack Lemmon Copy Share Image
Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs… — Charles Lenox Remond Copy Share Image
My mother is more of an adviser. I followed everything she did when I was younger, because I looked up to her… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Like the Caribbean Windrush generation, my parents came to this country from the Commonwealth in the 1960s. They, too, came to help… — Sajid Javid Copy Share Image
If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
My entire life is violence. If I don't ever leave work at work, then I never leave violence. And I can't be… — Matt Mitrione Copy Share Image
When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I'm a black man who grew up in America. I'm a father of four children. They don't all have the same mother.… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
