When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
You tell me these two were my parents, so now I know but it's a memory that you've given me. I'll remember… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
As a father, I understand the importance of the bond that develops through reading picture books with your child. — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
From childhood, I had been instructed in the tablaa by my father, along with the astaais and antaraas specific to our Gharana. — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Copy Share Image
“He winked at their mother, who snarled at him, and Julius decided he’d better keep things moving before someone got blood all… — Rachel Aaron Copy Share Image
Happy Mothers Day to the mother's to be, the mother's that are, the father's who are mother's and the mother's no longer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is clear from the writings of our founding fathers that they disagreed with such excessive taxation to redistribute wealth. In the… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
After my 12th, my parents moved to Bangalore while I moved to Mumbai to study Economics at Sophia College. Much unlike other… — Kiran Rao Copy Share Image
“If we accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill each other?… — Mother Theresa Copy Share Image
The strength of my mother is something I didn't pay attention to for so long. Here she was, this single mom, who… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“So much had the gospel been spread abroad during this early period of the church that the apostle could speak of it… — Robert L. Saucy Copy Share Image
“I had never thought I had much in common with anybody. I had no mother, no father, no roots, no biological similarities… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“We have counseled many couples that started their journey in parenting with high hopes and the best intentions to love and nurture… — Gary Ezzo Copy Share Image
I remember my father's last race very clearly when he drove at Hockenheim in front of 100,000 people and I was sitting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stealing money from your parents - I feel like I did that a lot and I now know as an adult that… — Cameron Esposito Copy Share Image
I was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and we lived there for three to five years - with my mother and father. And… — Yasmin Aga Khan Copy Share Image
I love and adore being a mother. Its the greatest gift Ive ever been given. Having children flips the game from being… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
It take someone really brave to be a mother, someone strong to raise a child, and someone special to love someone more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“foolish child is a father’s ruin,† and a quarrelsome wife is like the constant dripping of a leaky roof.†” — Zondervan Publishing Copy Share Image
When I told my mother that I have to give a talk, and was debating what could I possibly say to non-mathematicians,… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Just because we make a lot of money we're supposed to be the bigger person? Fans tell us that our kids are… — Stephen Jackson Copy Share Image
I certainly learned how to break down a text at Princeton, which helps me break down a script - or at least… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Mitochondrial DNA, which is a sort of abridged version of DNA, is passed directly from mother to child, so it's something that… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“This was the part where Charlotte, heroine, remembered she was a twenty-first-century woman and a mother. This was Charlotte saying, Hell no!” — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“Mother-daughter disagreements were, in hindsight, basically mother stating the truth and daughter taking her own sweet time coming around.” — Barbara Delinsky Copy Share Image
“Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent. Any parent with a hard hand can crush it,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Don't cry. She wouldn't like it. When I missed my father, I used to cry. Mama taught me when I cry, he… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from… — Al Lewis Copy Share Image
I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree. — Keith Murray Copy Share Image
When I was 14, I decided that I really wanted to pursue polo more, so I asked my parents if it would… — Nacho Figueras Copy Share Image
My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off… — Les Paul Copy Share Image
Until I was pursuing my collegiate education, I was in Madurai with my parents. Bengaluru was the first place where I was… — Karthik Subbaraj Copy Share Image
