I know I've had a charmed experience of being a parent, with healthy kids, a helpful partner, access to good day care,… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Being the son of a father who works so hard, I always wanted to be able take a lot of load off… — Romeo Miller Copy Share Image
A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She can choose her own lifestyle. But in… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
My mother is mocking me about wearing 20lb ankle weights and a medicine ball while jumping that and telling to stop messing… — MrCountry Copy Share Image
My parents taught me about the mistakes that they made. At the end of the day, it worked out pretty good for… — Carlos Correa Copy Share Image
It was a very scary place to be. I don't think any mother or father would like to have their five year… — Saroo Brierley Copy Share Image
My parents were there to support us in whatever we wanted to do. But if we did something, they wanted to make… — Ryan Zimmerman Copy Share Image
My father was judgmental and kind of mean, and I'm like that. And he was very perfectionistic, and I'm like that. And… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I was raised by a hard-working single mother, so my first role model was a woman. My only caretaker was a woman,… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
In retrospect, I have come to recognise just how astounding my mother was during our childhood. She kept a woodwork shop and… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“You are a terrifying creature," the Voice told her solemnly. "You do not take your place in your father's tent, letting men… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won't know what you're… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
The sense that in his mother's view, he had let down his family just by being who he was... was a failure… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I've only twice in my life come across someone with both high IQ and high EQ naturally; and that was because their… — Walter O'Brien Copy Share Image
“We want him to see that as a result of being parented by imperfect parents, he (she) chooses the wrong people for… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
“Necessity is the mother of delusion. For true love to exist there must be nothing that is necessary to it. Lovers have… — Billy Bob Stone Copy Share Image
Love your mother no matter what you go through and no matter how much you argue with her because in the end,… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Spirituality means to me living the ordinary life extraordinarily well. As the old-church father said, 'The glory of God is a human… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
I have taken my friends' bikes for rides, but my parents never allowed me to get one for myself, as they think… — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
I would say that my parents were intermittently proud of me. They couldn't hang onto it, you know? It would come and… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
My father was a black, working-class man who arrived here with no money in his pocket from Nigeria; my mum came from… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be memorized for everyone. I want to stay real,endless and inchangeable for my parents, kids and their descendants.” — Alexander Zalan Copy Share Image
My parents have been my biggest influencers. They both immigrated to America and taught me that I can do anything I dream… — Summer Rae Copy Share Image
Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
I understood the feeling of being 17 and living with your parents somewhere, and then being 18 and living in New York… — Morgan Saylor Copy Share Image
My friends' parents who were in the Marines, they were the people I looked up to the most. I looked up to… — Liz Carmouche Copy Share Image
I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
Parents don't understand kids and kids don't understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
My mother gave me the discipline to follow my dreams. You know: you can do what you want as long as you… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
“The days float on like a feather in the wind, but at the end of the week, I’m still a chicken. Taste… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Jesus is busy with his own stuff, and is not going to get involved in your little tug-of-war. Plus, don't forget, he… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement. — Ashley Jensen Copy Share Image
If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“I sensed more than recognized the sound of those skeletal knuckles on the door. I was too young for it to be… — Dan Skinner Copy Share Image
I grew up in San Diego with immigrant parents, before the food blogs, before this kind of celebrity chef culture we know… — Samin Nosrat Copy Share Image
My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that. — Sam Raimi Copy Share Image
