My mum brought me up by herself, pretty much. She had me at the age of 20, and my grandmother was a… — Jade Bird Copy Share Image
I ask only child-free pals for parenting advice because they're the only ones sane and well-rested enough to have any real insight. — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
I built my first car at 16. I was really lucky, because at the back of my parents' house, there was a… — Ant Anstead Copy Share Image
Parents sometimes feel that if they don't criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn't make people wantto change; it… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
Keep an eye on what your kids are seeing online. Parents need to stay involved in what their children are being exposed… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
No. You can't do that. We won't let you go to Bollywood... ' This is the standard reaction of small town, middle… — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
“Filial respect caused Grey to hesitate in passing ex post facto opinions on his mother's judgment, but after half an hour in… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“This not being pleasing, and less profitable to me, I consulted with my two brothers, Dr. Reason and Dr. Experience, and took… — Nicholas Culpeper Copy Share Image
“My kin would sooner have a badger in their house than a Campbell." Alan saw his mother open hermouth and shook his… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I have seen my parents struggle with meagre means to run a family. That's why giving free and good education, free health… — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“After my mom died she ate my father up completely. She would have hated it. Every minute of his life since then… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Happy Mother's Day to all mothers in the world. You gave life, carried in the womb for nine months, well cared for,… — Innah Delos Angeles Copy Share Image
“Miss Peregrine had shown my grandfather. I was coming to believe I had been sent here to repay that debt—my own, my… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby. — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Your parents would not be happy if you came home and said you wanted to grow up to be a chef or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always told my mother I wanted a job where I could have a lot of fun and have a lot of… — Sherman Hemsley Copy Share Image
My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
My parents have a ridiculous work ethic; my dad just works, works, works, works, works. I think it would be hard to… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength — Barbara Katz Rothman Copy Share Image
Several of my uncles are comedians. My father is a comedian; my grandfather was known for his jokes. It definitely runs in… — Charlie Murphy Copy Share Image
The tattoo that means the most to me would probably be my Chinese symbol on my neck. It means love - I… — Kane Brown Copy Share Image
“and the wind gathered the leaves as a mother gathers her children and blew them irrevocably, lovingly, into the haunted wildness” — Elliot Mabeuse Copy Share Image
My father was very funny, so I grew up with humor in the house. And I was always really attracted to comedies… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
On parent knees, a naked new-born child, Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled; So live, that sinking in thy last… — William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell Copy Share Image
“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven."… — Lisa C. Temple Copy Share Image
As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her… — Lee Radziwill Copy Share Image
Ours was a never a 'religious' religious home because my parents thought of religion as something you do: it's the way you… — Margrethe Vestager Copy Share Image
“My mother—with all the embarrassment and hurt that she caused me in my youth—ended up giving me the drive and the fire… — Vernon Davis Copy Share Image
I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When, President Bush asks me to go with his father to the Tsunami impacted areas and help raise money, I was thrilled… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I think I'm an extremely good mother. I know I'm an extremely good mother. But I didn't realise how much it sucks… — Alex Kingston Copy Share Image
