If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“He was the measure of the failure of his father's body, and also perhaps a portending of the failure of his own.~” — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm lucky; my parents have never said to me, "You're a kid, so you just don't know." They say, "How can we… — Yara Shahidi Copy Share Image
If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, you'd get people going: 'Oh, we should make 'Mother' into an opera, it's what… — Goldie Copy Share Image
Even my going back to school was to inspire young people that it's never too late to education. That's all I can… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
“Her mother had told her the mortal world was pocked with memorials and monuments to loss. They build with steel and stone… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for… — Birch Bayh Copy Share Image
The neighborhood children, of course, were forbidden by their parents to play with my little boy, Garth, so I finally got him… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“Looking at those photographs, I remembered how my parents had never said “I love you” to each other. How they had said… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting… — Archie Panjabi Copy Share Image
“The way I see it, it's got nothing to do with all of that. It has to do with love...A person don't… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“I never got over the horror of watching their graduation ceremonies, performed before their parents. After a demonstration of ‘military prowess’ and… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
“My father never went to college so it was really important I go to college. After college, I called him long distance… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“We can only afford two children' really means, 'We only like clean, well-disciplined middle-class children who go to good schools and grow… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Just like this, the kids we raised slowly start growing up and away from us. We have to gradually let go of… — Keiko Tobe Copy Share Image
“At some point we all play by the rules, whether it's the rules of all mankind, the rules of Father who is… — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
If sharp-elbowed parents are no longer able to buy themselves out of state education, they are incentivised to improve their local schools. — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because… — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
We are not heading for an eternal void and an eternal silence but we are on our way to an encounter, an… — Raniero Cantalamessa Copy Share Image
Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
“Some of the mothers looked overwhelmed - they were no longer accustomed to supervising their own kids in a normal, day-to-day way.” — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
“Intrigue feeds on itself; conspiracies have neither mother nor father, and yet they thrive: the only thing to know is that no… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
“But his mother was an old-school Mexicana, convinced that the greatest troubles of the world could be fixed with food bribes,” — Melissa F. Olson Copy Share Image
My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths,… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
In my head: YOU! It's all you! Marry me! Kiss me! Hold me! Be the father of my children!!! On the outside:… — Alla Copy Share Image
No one knows his true character until he has run out of gas, purchased something on the installment plan and raised an… — Marcelene Cox Copy Share Image
I am thankful to my parents for letting me pursue music as a career. No one in my family is a musician,… — Neeti Mohan Copy Share Image
You look invincible,' my mother said one night. I loved these times, when we seemed to feel the same thing. I turned… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
My late father used to say that they started out without two nickles to rub together and lived in that little house… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
My mom's mother was from Virginia, but I don't feel much of a tie. I'm very much anti-South for many, many reasons.… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The juxtaposition highlighted the shift from the interests of his father’s generation. “Mr. McCollum felt that electronics class was the new auto… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Parents should be told that if they invest in the education and upbringing of a girl child, she will also make contributions… — Sharmila Tagore Copy Share Image
“Mistakes are part of life. And yet, for some reason, most parents in this world, wish their children made no mistakes at… — Lukasz Laniecki Copy Share Image
My mother was terribly important to me, and I know how much I yearned for her in my youth, but I don't… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
