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
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
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
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
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
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moms are, in my opinion, the wonders of the universe. They can leap tall buildings in a single bound, they can go… — Kevin Leman Copy Share Image
“I recall those beautiful summer mornings with my parents by the sandy beach of Belek. My father used to teach me how… — Malak El Halabi Copy Share Image
“Your father sounds frightening," Trayton said. "He once made a general cry." "No." "I shit you not. The guy had to retire… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
All parents are trying to balance. Look, I'm lucky in the sense that I can control my hours. I can choose my… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but,… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I… — Loretta Young Copy Share Image
“I was such a smart kid, I should have figured out that the only way to really get my parents’ attention was… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“I like clothes, Megan. I've like clothes since I was a toddler playing in my mother's closet back in the Master's quarters… — L.C. Hibbett 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I grew up watching 'The Office' and 'Father Ted' and all the British things at that time - 'The Royle Family' -… — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
“Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
My parents felt I should earn my money because I would then value it. So they would pay me a shilling or… — Deborah Meaden Copy Share Image
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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