“Her own mother had died when Anna was twelve and since then father and daughter had faced the world like a pair… — John Banville Copy Share Image
There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids,… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
I was like a fat, sweaty kid growing up in Queens who just was plopped down in front of 'Entertainment Tonight' by… — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you,… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Naked a man comes from his mothers womb, and as he comes, so he departs. He takes nothing from his labor that… — King Solomon Copy Share Image
One need not be a Mother Teresa, but being kind and well-behaved with those around us can win people's hearts. — Aishwarya Lekshmi Copy Share Image
“Everyone needs to be stroked and touched and the benefits of skin contact do not just affect mothers and babies.” — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
People want it to be red, like blood. It's kind of funny. When I used to throw meat into the audience, I'd… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
“What should we read next?” Bernadette asked. “Pride and Prejudice is my favorite. So let’s do that,” Sylvia said. Are you sure,… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“Nothing‟s going to change, Jamie had said that day, but I‟d known even then this wasn‟t true. My mother had always been… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Happy Days was about a family... although the show was shot in the 70s, it was about a family in the 50s.… — Tom Bosley Copy Share Image
“The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life—if indeed we can conceive… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Education ought everywhere to be religious education. At the same time, parents are farther bound to employ no instructors who will not… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
“That night, I hated father. He smelt of cabbage. There was cigarette ash all over his trousers. His untidy moustache was yellower… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“Jesus—for example, his categorical rejection of divorce, or his statement that “if anyone does not hate his own father and mother and… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see… — Joe Manchin Copy Share Image
My dad was this pint-sized Nigerian with an oversized personality. My mother is a tall six foot something Irish-English woman. Us walking… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking,… — Colman Domingo Copy Share Image
I'm often asked by parents what advice can I give them to help get kids interested in science? And I have only… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“87% of mothers used artificial milk because they believed that the hospital staff had advised to do so. In reality they had… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
We were still quite religious until I was about eight or nine. Then I watched my parents take a dramatic turn and… — Adrianne Lenker Copy Share Image
My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years. — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
“The Universe is like a loving parent who wants us to have everything we need. Claim your power and be prosperous.” — Hina Hashmi Copy Share Image
I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“Lots of women who have children work. Being a mother isn’t a disability. You're an educated man, you know I'm right.” — Alex A. King Copy Share Image
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. - Robert Fulghum Your children will become… — David Bly Copy Share Image
Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents have always told me it's better to write your goals out because then you can look at them every day.… — Joe Harris Copy Share Image
“At least once a year there is a predawn rehearsal of the Queen Mother’s funeral procession through the streets of London.” — Christopher Andersen Copy Share Image
I've played many games for Iceland and my father before me, so I have a sense of what football means to people… — Eidur Gudjohnsen Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that I'd be a marvelous father. Maybe not when they're tiny, but when they're a little bit older,… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown… — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my father,… — Simon Kuznets Copy Share Image
“Parents owe their children a set of lofty standards and solid values which are best transmitted by the power of example.” — L. Backman Copy Share Image
My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York,… — James Cagney Copy Share Image
Certainly my parents were very political, so the whole Berlin Wall thing - and being a kid of the '80s - that's… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
