My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that,… — KaDee Strickland Copy Share Image
My parents were gigantic influences on me. I had a deep hunger to impress my father, who was a professor and an… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“The thing about fathers is that they are human. But, they stay bent on being heroes to their children, readily willing to… — Srini Chandra Copy Share Image
If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I… — John Green Copy Share Image
I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
If homes are going to survive, it will be because husbands and fathers again place their families at the highest level on… — James Dobson Copy Share Image
So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a… — Nick Cannon Copy Share Image
In 1986, I had gone on a hunger strike with Anand Patwardhan rooting for an alternative land for slum dwellers. My mother… — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
Why should we be willing to go by faith? We do all things in this world by faith in the word of… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My… — Laura Mvula Copy Share Image
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims that Jesus Christ is the Son of God in the most literal sense.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“I tell my girls when you have done everything humanly possible, when you have fought with everything in you for something you… — Susan Goldsmith Copy Share Image
When I look back, there was obviously the arch of my creativity and when I was young, I used to go to… — Jeremiah Brent Copy Share Image
Since Christ is the only way to the Father, in order to highlight His living and saving presence in the Church and… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Anybody can make a baby without any checking, without thinking. This type of parenting can be tragic because one of the greatest… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds,… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
In traditional 'Swan Lakes,' it's Prince Siegfried's 21st-birthday celebration, his coming-of-age. The entire court, from his mother the Queen on down, is… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“But most people are essentially good. You have to believe that.” “Even the Nazis?” Father Re hesitated, and then said, “I can’t… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
I've loved poetry since a very young age and my parents, especially my dad, he really introduced us to art when we… — Dominique Crenn Copy Share Image
The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included… — Thomas Goodwin Copy Share Image
“School was finally out and I was standing on a picnic table in our backyard getting ready for a great summer vacation… — Jack Gantos Copy Share Image
At the age of eight, I went to a boarding school in Devlali and would come home only during holidays. I have… — Arshad Warsi Copy Share Image
I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Forbid me not to weep; he was my father; And, had you lov'd him half so well as I, You could not… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
When my father got the letter from Satyajit Ray saying I could work with him, I had to give up 'Saat Hindustani.'… — Tinnu Anand Copy Share Image
It takes a strong woman to be a mother, and an even stronger woman to be a single mother. God give strength… — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; - but the… — Octavius Winslow Copy Share Image
“What's going on? Not much. My mother's falling to pieces, my sister is a selfish bitch and my father's committing slow suicide… — Karen Miller Copy Share Image
“Such was the Pact. Born behind bars, Mission had been allowed free while his mother had been sent outside to clean.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
My joke used to be about my father and Peter Boyle: that anything you see Peter Boyle do on TV, my father… — Ray Romano Copy Share Image
When we were little, our parents couldn't tell us apart from the side or the back, they had to look at us… — Drew Scott Copy Share Image
I'm called Anne because my mother, who was devout, prayed to St. Anne every day of her pregnancy with me. — Anne Murray Copy Share Image
“They locked gazes in that moment, the mother and the rake. Neither doubted that a battle had been joined” — Karen Ranney Copy Share Image
The idea that your spouse or your parents don't know where you are at all times may be part of the past.… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
I had no relationship with my father. He was never around. I met him when I was a sophomore in college. I… — Ben Wallace Copy Share Image
And as for baby-boomer parents cluck-clucking about illegal substances, ah, gimme a break. Still, I think I'll pass on the rave. But… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Maybe we slip so easily into blaming our parents - you're perpetually a child and they're perpetually a parent and you long… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
