My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
I'm more like my father, personality-wise. But my mom and I get alone really well, obviously, because my mom and my dad… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
George Washington, who said to his father, Dad, if I never tell I lie, how am I ever gonna become President? Never… — Red Buttons Copy Share Image
“Her mother admonished through closed lips, the sound a mother can make mean anything from "pick up your socks" to "we are… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
My parents really pushed me to excel in school. Education was always important to them, so it was important to me. — Sunny Hostin Copy Share Image
Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help. — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
I grew up in my father's laboratory and played beneath the chemical benches until I was tall enough to play on them. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“My father is an equal opportunity bigot. He wouldn’t deprive a man of his rights. And he’s not a hate-filled man. He… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I think that's why Meryl Streep is working so much, because she looks like a woman we can all relate to. I… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
“One would think being free of my father's domineering influence would have made him a better man. Instead, he took on patterns… — Sheila Myers Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, my legacy won't be that I was on a reality show. I want my legacy to… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
“All right. But rocks, Mother, I hope I’ll never be called king.” “You once hoped you’d never be a soldier.” “Don’t remind… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
I lived with my parents and my older brother in a small, three-bedroom terraced house in Northfield Road, Hull. It was in… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
Her father didn't have a Nazi past. He was a fascist sympathizer, but Audrey didn't try to keep that a secret. She… — Robert Wolders Copy Share Image
Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it -… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
You must all follow the lead of the bishop, as Jesus Christ followed that of the Father; follow the presbytery as you… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
I believe every person has a guardian spirit or angel. They assist us in the transition between life and death and they… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I… — Marion Cotillard 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
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
“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
My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years. — Jane Seymour 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
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
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
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
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 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
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'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
“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
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
Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per… — James Levine Copy Share Image
Eat of my deep earth, drink of my living streams, for I am your Mother. Your heart is my wild drum, your… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image