When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
Certainly my parents were very political, so the whole Berlin Wall thing - and being a kid of the '80s - that's… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
For everybody in the world, the answers to the mysteries in your life usually lie in your childhood, your upbringing, and your… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York,… — James Cagney Copy Share Image
My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg. — Samantha Bond Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Apart from English, I speak my mother tongue Malayalam, as well as Tamil, Telugu, and a bit of Kannada and French. — Asin Copy Share Image
I grew up Valley Stream until my parents moved to Florida when I was 20. I graduated from Valley Stream Central High… — Jim Breuer Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid, my father told me there are two kinds of people in the world: smart people and wise… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There were those who asserted that sons always became, to some degree or other, disguised variants of their fathers, that the experience… — Jo Nesbø Copy Share Image
While designing, sewing and cutting patterns for clients, my mother was always telling me to make sure the upper part of the… — Anastasia Soare Copy Share Image
She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
The commandment to honor our parents echoes the sacred spirit of family relationships in which-at their best-we have sublime expressions of heavenly… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
“I wished that my hand would work again," I tell him when he climbs in after me. it was my first wish… — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
The thing is that my father's story helps to communicate what was at stake with my mother, and my mother and father… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
If you want to move people, it has to be toward a vision that's positive for them, that taps important values, that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I just loved comedy, and I think it was my parents who initially brought up the notion of me trying to do… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Lego for many parents is the antithesis of the high tech world. We are desperate to wean our little ones away from… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
I've been very lucky early on to be surrounded when I was a child by music from various countries. My parents would… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
My parents are my best friends and I would tell them things that I would tell nobody as they would never judge… — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image
A mother will flatter herself thinking you are too much like herself, heightened the confusion when he is nowhere to be found! — Aubrey Smith Copy Share Image
From my father, I learned the importance of working sincerely at things to which I had committed myself, and to persevere untiringly… — Koichi Tanaka Copy Share Image
All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
“Whoa. Parents must have been loaded. When he let out a loud laugh, it hit her that she must’ve said those words… — Rosalie Lario Copy Share Image
I've been really opinionated my whole life. I was raised to be opinionated. I was raised to debate at the dinner table… — Jeanine Tesori Copy Share Image
It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what… — Gina Philips Copy Share Image
I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father's frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr Copy Share Image
My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
My very shy Punjabi father never taught me about the birds and bees. So shy was he that he may have thought… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
It's funny when people ask if I'm a lesbian. I played a real estate agent in 'Father of the Bride, Part II,'… — Nora Dunn Copy Share Image
My children are now all grown. Some are in their 60s. But when they call and I answer the phone, they say,… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
A grateful heart ... comes through expressing gratitude to our Heavenly Father for His blessings and to those around us for all… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
That emphasis, from my parents, was always, "if you want something different from this" - they didn't say "better than this," because… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
“The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing ‘Sleep sweet sleep’. (The Children of Ankh series)… — Kim Cormack Copy Share Image
I have a distinct memory of friends I had at school whose parents were, for want of a better word, bohemian. That… — Pete Doherty Copy Share Image
