Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I haven't met one parent or one teacher in Missouri who thinks we should balance the budget by taking money from kids'… — Jay Nixon Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
I've done everything imaginable as a mother and a coal miner's daughter to create a brighter future for our children, and it… — Paula Jean Swearengin Copy Share Image
You kind of know your place in the world as a parent. And the minute you become a parent, is the minute… — Ant Anstead Copy Share Image
“My mother, sitting at the kitchen table, the steam rising from her cup entwining with the smoke curling from her cigarette resting… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My father died beside trees on iron rails... He had 77 dollars on him at the time, and we used the money… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“My books are friends that never fail me." ( Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle ; 17 March 1817)” — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Any scene I've ever played where I've thought people who watch it had experienced something like that - for example, people who've… — Claire Foy Copy Share Image
I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to… — Joanne Woodward Copy Share Image
I could never turn to a guy and a girl and ask, 'Are you going steady?' That was absolutely a no-no -… — Dick Clark Copy Share Image
“There were torments in the Himalayas, windspouts in the Grand Canyon, and Judges of the Supreme Court got into sacred rages. What… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Once you're a mother, you're always a mom. So it doesn't matter if your child comes out green, purple, bisexual or whatever.… — Tichina Arnold Copy Share Image
“In order for us to reach the hearts of our children we must realize that there is far more to parenting than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your… — Lou Gehrig Copy Share Image
My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
“How to make his mother, whom he imagined to be the unhappiest person in the world, the happiest, was what drove him… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
I actually used to say it to my mother and my sister all the time. I used to say, 'I just know… — Maura Higgins Copy Share Image
Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health. — Kate Middleton Copy Share Image
Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual. — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
“Literature's father figures can only loom, intimidate, and inspire for so long before they must be slain by their offspring.” — Larry McCaffery Copy Share Image
When you look at my father's works, he systematically dated everything. He also wanted to document what he knew would be the… — Claude Picasso Copy Share Image
“If he had slept with Zach, he would have regretted it, anyway. A fuck wasn’t worth his self-esteem. He would never be… — Alessandra Hazard Copy Share Image
“When you're a teenager,everybody is waiting for you to be something or somebody else-your friends,your parents,your teachers.Sometimes you lose track.” — John David Anderson Copy Share Image
You get everything handed to you and clearly your parents have money so PLEASE stop bragging.Some people don't have it that easy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever talk to your parents always think that they were in your place some years ago and you will be in their… — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
“It seems to me now, if I was to find Father at home to-night, I should behave different; but there’s no knowing… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But in dying so suddenly her mother had become a riddle at the gate instead of the road you walked to get… — Stephanie Kallos Copy Share Image
“I observed you in pain, lad. Pain’s merely the axis of the test. Your mother’s told you about our ways of observing.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I just remember certain things really well. I know my schedule, my husband's schedule and my parents' schedule. I also have a… — Susan Tedeschi Copy Share Image
The message was that .. fathers can go ahead and have children, but they don't have to raise the children. — Dan Quayle Copy Share Image
I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort… — Kristin Scott Thomas Copy Share Image
My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Nothing is sacred. Not even your own mother, not the Jewish martyrs, not even people starving of hunger. Laugh at everything, ferociously,… — Francois Cavanna Copy Share Image
My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
There are proven health benefits for both babies and mothers who breastfeed, and it's unfortunate that it still carries an unfair stigma… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and… — Ben Berger Copy Share Image
“Assumption was the mother from which all mistakes are born’ or most commonly known as, ‘The mother of all fuck ups’.” — Stephanie Hudson Copy Share Image
