Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.… — Bible Copy Share Image
I was born to a single mother and often struggled to find my next meal. With the right opportunities from public education… — Jaime Harrison Copy Share Image
I'm forever grateful to have had the opportunity to prove myself to my dad. After I took over the diner, the look… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
Harry! I'd almost forgotten you were here, standing on the bones of my father. I'd introduce you, but rumor has it you're… — Lord Voldemort Copy Share Image
Mother, why can I not feel as I should... must? Once false, I must not be again. Take out the thorn. -Pocahontas — Pocahontas Copy Share Image
My father set a strict regimen for me. He insisted that I learn to play many musical instruments before I choose one. — Vidyasagar Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I've never met a parent who didn't want their kid to be a… — Jessi Klein Copy Share Image
I mean, London has shaped me as a person. My parents are Nigerian so I've had the luxury of blending different cultures… — MNEK Copy Share Image
“John vii. 24. Judge not according to the appearance. John xii. 8. For the poor always ye have with you. John xii,… — Various Copy Share Image
I grew up as an only child, and my mother was a single mom. It's always been "us." If it weren't for… — Edwina Findley Copy Share Image
“Gansey despised raising his voice (in his head, his mother said, People shout when they don't have the vocabulary to whisper), but… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“I'd have liked to have you for a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother or my sister--anything a woman can be… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“When The Woman is King (Sonnet) When the woman is king, no mother goes without leave, no dreamer goes without choice, no… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
When my father came out to his mom, my grandmother said, 'You waited for your father to die; why couldn't you have… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The sudden silence is horrifying, and it seems to catch my mother off guard. A tiny whimper escapes her, the sound amplified… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some men don't know what it means to stay. They've watched their mothers leave every morning, and their fathers leave every night.… — Key Ballah Copy Share Image
“Since i was born, i have realized that; all things that people do in this world are mostly based on the lies… — Ntambara Sylvestre Owen Berbason Copy Share Image
“There are parents who use their small children as weapons. They are weak people. Sick people. And their children are watching them,… — Brenda Sutton Rose Copy Share Image
If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me… — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
Parents are your teachers until a certain point, and if they don't give you love, you'll go somewhere else to find it. — Marguerite Moreau Copy Share Image
It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
My parents were divorced and I didn't grow up with my father, but I spent a lot of time around him, and… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
“Children are better off having a parent who works into the night in a job they love than a parent who works… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I have learned so many things from my mother about the right upbringing, the right values, value for money, value for elders,… — Karisma Kapoor Copy Share Image
I inherited my ability from both my parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not making it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
When I get a letter that says, 'I'm 18 and have always been attracted to older men,' then it usually means that… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
Sometimes, it's hard for parents to talk to their children. It's all about learning that there are other ways to communicate, like… — Tabitha Brown Copy Share Image
“When we die our argument dies with us. The argument we never articulated well enough, that we were failed by our parents,… — Stephen Elliott Copy Share Image
I'm a real martial artist, my father always taught me that some way I have to train every day, no matter what… — Lyoto Machida Copy Share Image
Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
By the time I was 14, I had become self-motivated. Whatever raced inside me was more demanding than any pressure applied by… — Bill Bradley Copy Share Image
My grandmother I admired even more [than mother]. She was an Irish lady and a very kind-hearted person. She had a lot… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Like any working mother, I have to balance and manage my time very carefully. My children and husband come first, of course,… — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
Twitter is the only place where you can really express your self withouy your parents seeing all of your bad words. — Keyzee Copy Share Image
In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents. — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents… — Joan Lingard Copy Share Image