I never understood overly protective parents...The more you don't allow them to do the more the worse they are gonna do behind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's really hard just making dinner as a single parent, but I'm figuring it out. I just have to be more focused… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic. — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
“He loved them deeply, but sometimes love becomes a power game between the ambitions that parents have for their children and the… — Witi Ihimaera Copy Share Image
“I'm an orphan now, thought Charlotte. No matter how old you are, when your parents are gone, you are alone - an… — Libby Schmais Copy Share Image
I have been aware since my youth that I am a Hebrew through my mother, and that is something that has played… — Amar'e Stoudemire Copy Share Image
Anyway, my father became super-responsible. You know, he was the kind of person that absorbs all responsibility in the family, and then… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist who played… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I think the main thing that we can do as adults helping young people to find the joy in reading, whether we're… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
My uncles and my father were all in the Royal Navy. One of my uncles, as a matter of fact, was drowned… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
“When children are born, they have five natural characteristics that make them authentic human beings: children are valuable, vulnerable, imperfect, dependent, and… — Pia Mellody Copy Share Image
My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life… — Bruce Forsyth Copy Share Image
“Al was referring to the time during the Cuban missile crisis that he left his five-months-pregnant wife home alone with no food… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Jay's downstairs waiting." With her father on one side, and the handrail on the other, Violet descended the stairs as if she… — Kimberly Derting Copy Share Image
My father was a steel worker and Martin's [Schulz] grandfather was a miner in Saarland. In these occupations, there is a particular… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
My father always encouraged me to get an education, but he was also a guy that, when he was younger, had ridden… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
I have three wonderful children. My husband is an absolutely wonderful, perfect husband and a father, most of all. — Columba Bush Copy Share Image
I remember, as a child, wanting all the time to buy my parents presents. I stood around forlornly in fancy shops, unable… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor. — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
“But what really bugged the living crap out of me was that my mother had more friends than I did. How saw… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
I hate when parents compare you to other kids. I'm me you should love me for who I am not what you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have to potential to be the comic stories… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
That's the potential power of a single voice - a neighbor's, a teacher's, a parent's, a friend's. It can change you, make… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
The Jewish Mother in me says that the first quality to look for with a man that has four 'baby mamas' is… — Jill Zarin Copy Share Image
My mother is a lecturer and going to see her lectures is like going to see someone perform its really interesting to… — Florence And The Machine Copy Share Image
My writing is definitely influenced by and speaks to African-Americans because that is who I am. I'm black. I'm a black woman.… — Michelle Singletary Copy Share Image
Affirmative precepts are distinguished from negative whenever one is not comprised in the other; thus, that of honoring parents does not comprise… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
My parents were rather unconventional and did not accept rules unless they thought they were defendable. They were atheists when Sweden was… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
“If a child hasn't been given spiritual values within the family setting, they have no familiarity with the values that are necessary… — Eunice Baumann-Nelson Ph.D PENOBSCOT Copy Share Image
“When a boy loves truly he behaves like a child!!! BUT!!!! When a girl loves truly she behaves like a mother. . . .” — Albin JoZz Copy Share Image
Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work. — Kirsty Gallacher Copy Share Image
“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mother gives birth to them, but that life obliges… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
When I had my first child, I was too embarrassed to tell a single soul that I wasn't the over-the-moon, picture-perfect new… — Stephanie Ruhle Copy Share Image
“Anxiety is unable to relax in the face of chaos; continuous prayer clings to the Father in the face of chaos.” — Paul E. Miller Copy Share Image
“I would often recall one of my mother’s sayings: You could stay in hell for a little while if you knew that… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
My parents got divorced. Early and ugly. My mum was nuts so I lived with my dad. We used to play a… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image