My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep'. To define yourself by… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
They can become very irritated. They can become very aggressive. Not all Alzheimer's patients are that way, but many are. My mother… — Yasmin Aga Khan Copy Share Image
“What’s wrong with your father? Huh? Can’t he do this? Or have you been reading Freud? WARD, have you been reading the… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
“is up to the parents to consider this fundamental question: “Am I genuinely able to give my child what they want and… — Jesper Juul Copy Share Image
My mother and father were partisan national heroes: I learned sacrifice and discipline from them and that a private life is not… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
Father asks frequently in his letters whether I fancy any Ayorthaian young lady or any in our acquaintance at home. I say… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
As one does with a first child, I found out that my baby could roll by hearing the sound of her body… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
Waiting upon the Lord gives us a priceless opportunity to discover that there are many who wait upon us. Our children wait… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
“6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What do you know of love or marriage?" I asked. "You were all set to marry a woman ten years older than… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
“Eventually I came to understand some of what was at work between my father and Murphy. Unable to meet each other on… — John Gregory Brown Copy Share Image
“According to the general implication in my parents’ household, as a mere girl, my life was essentially without any purpose beyond getting… — Elizabeth Garden Copy Share Image
My parents didn't want us on the streets or in trouble, so they thought the best thing was to have us work.… — Nikki Haley Copy Share Image
Ive always liked the idea of being a father. And Ive always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I was never going to do anything that would have brought shame to my family. I owed too much, and I wanted… — Bruno Sammartino Copy Share Image
Conversion is a very, very important part of what you are doing. We will have a responsibility to report to Heavenly Father… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
At about twelve I just knew, something clicked, and I knew I wanted to be an actor and my parents, to their… — Erika Christensen Copy Share Image
“How do you explain to your friend's mother why a night out with friends has left her daughter dying from an ecstasy… — A.C. Flanagan Copy Share Image
When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants.… — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“It’s so dark that I can hear the sea better than I can see it. Shhhhh, Shhhhh, it says, like I’m a… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Ask me what makes a champion runner, and I will tell you it helps to have the great good sense to choose… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
I know that my parents sacrificed a hell of a lot to make sure that my brothers and I would have all… — Gareth Thomas Copy Share Image
Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who'd put us in the… — Nicole Beharie Copy Share Image
My mother and I had a lot of distance between us emotionally, although, on the surface, most of the time, we appeared… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I remember, when I got my first period, I was almost afraid to tell me mother, who's quite an open, loving person.… — Aisling Bea Copy Share Image
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Both my parents are teachers, and while they were always cool with what I did, they never let me take my education… — K. L. Rahul Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I'd always wanted to take karate, but my parents wouldn't let me because I did a lot… — Adena Friedman Copy Share Image
If you can't soar with the eagles, Then don't fly with the flock. Are you still getting high? Did you catch your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how… — Barkhad Abdi Copy Share Image
Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I'd had to… — Boy George Copy Share Image
I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
