“My mother refuses to go into the ocean. She respects it, she says, which is basically the same as saying she's afraid.… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
“it's a little girl named anna, and she doesn't know if she's ready to say good-bye to a father she's never really… — Pamela Ribon Copy Share Image
A new study found that a mother's diet affects her baby's allergies. Which can only mean one thing: My mom ate cats. — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
“Ambitious parents who are currently playing the ‘Baby Mozart’ video for their toddlers may be disappointed to learn that Mozart became Mozart… — Geoff Colvin Copy Share Image
My parents' greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted… — Linda McMahon Copy Share Image
I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college,… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre. — Quintus Ennius Copy Share Image
I remember, as a child, a particular groan that my father would sound when he crawled from the bed in the morning.… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
There were people who would complain about their jobs, and my mother would walk away from that job. I liked that a… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“mother, with her upbringing in the primitive Baptist church, believed that converting to Roman Catholicism was a step upward in the social… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I am from a poor background in Portugal. We were medium-down, not down-and-out. My parents felt problems around food in the past… — Carlos Carvalhal Copy Share Image
“Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster parents of beings!… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Women without children are also the best of mothers,often, with the patience,interest, and saving grace that the constant relationship with children cannot… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
If advertising has invaded the judgment of children, it has also forced its way into the family, an insolent usurper of parental… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In a perfect world, mothers would remind their daughters each morning of how beautiful their strong noses are, or how special their… — Bobbi Brown Copy Share Image
[My mother told me:] You must decide whether you want to get married someday,or have a career… I set my sights on… — Annie Elizabeth Delany Copy Share Image
“Your mother's betrayal will not prevent me from freeing you from the prison she left you in." From Father Conrad in Freaks… — J.O. Young Copy Share Image
I'd like to thank the academy and I'd like to thank my mother and I'd like to thank my mother again, because… — James Spader Copy Share Image
“Will whistled quietly. 'She sounds fantastic. But I can't imagine why she'd be interested in your dick. With that tiny thing you'll… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
I'm a father with two daughters, and I don't want them to feel that they have to go and work in China… — Joe Kaeser Copy Share Image
Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
My parents had four children quickly, divorced quickly - when I was two - and my mother remarried quickly. We were suddenly… — Anna Chancellor Copy Share Image
My parents are always a great litmus test. Based on the amount of shrieks my mother gives when we're out in public,… — Rick Hoffman Copy Share Image
It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
The watchful mother tarries nigh Though sleep have closed her infant's eye, For should he wake, and find her gone. — John Keble Copy Share Image
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should… — Esther Rolle Copy Share Image
People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
I learned much from my father just by watching his example. If I saw him hold a door open for someone, I… — Jerry Della Femina Copy Share Image
When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled… — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
The joy of motherhood comes in moments. ... Families need unstructured time when relationships can deepen and real parenting can take place.… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm lucky I had parents willing to be open and believe that an 11-year-old might know what she wanted to do. Or… — Claire Forlani Copy Share Image
I didn't learn music because I wanted to become famous or earn a lot of money. It was to follow my father's… — K. J. Yesudas Copy Share Image
Mother was engaged briefly to Richard Burton years ago and did a tiny part with him in the film 'Jackpot.' — Catherine Oxenberg Copy Share Image
“I remember complaining one night on the phone to my mother that we spent too much of our time worrying about love… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
![“My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force that might, at any moment, break loose, and do something terrible. [Burnside, p. 27]” quote by John Burnside](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/672/john-burnside-8167_break_my-father-was-one-of-those-men-who-sit-i_167810.jpg)
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