Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
I was definitely a tomboy. My mother liked to dress me differently, but it was her loss when I came home with… — Troian Bellisario Copy Share Image
I feel like when you're in your late teens and early 20s, you just don't think about certain things in your life,… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“She understands, too, the loneliness of parenting, which is the loneliness of memory – to know that she connects a future unknowable… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
One of my most treasured possessions is the letter my father wrote to me when I left home to join the Manchester… — Robbie Savage Copy Share Image
My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
I had learned that there were substitutes for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You could find love with other people.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The loss of my father marked my life. I'm 88 years old and I'm still mourning him because it's such a drama… — Frank Lowy Copy Share Image
Only a mum ll know what her child ll eat. charity begins at home, mothers are around. For pains nd suffering they… — Niidoodo Copy Share Image
“When your parents die, Alessandro, you feel that you have betrayed them." "Why?" Luciana asked. "Because you come to love your children… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“As to secrets, Father, I have but one: if the congregation expects a sermon of forty minutes’ length, then give them one… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
I go to church because my parents go to church, and I believe the things they were doing at the time were… — Peter Tosh Copy Share Image
“GENEVA SWEET ran an orange extension cord past Mayva Greenwood, Beloved Wife and Mother, May She Rest with Her Heavenly Father.” — Attica Locke Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
We don’t need more ‘What if the mother is going to die’ debated, we need ‘I had an abortion because I was… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help. — Nas Copy Share Image
My mother wanted to be an actress. She wanted to follow her dreams, and she never really got a chance to do… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
“The nights now only slightly less black. By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“If there’s anything I learned from my mother, it’s that power makes you just as vulnerable as it makes you strong. People… — Anna Jarzab Copy Share Image
“My mother can’t have been magic, or she wouldn’t have died,’ said Riddle, more to himself than Dumbledore.” — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and… — John Green Copy Share Image
. . . the labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and… — Susan Piver Copy Share Image
My mother had to explain that one couldnt compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
Charlotte Flair is continuing her father's legacy but paving her own, and she's opening the door for women all over the world… — Charlotte Flair Copy Share Image
“What I have written is drawn from experience — from seeing, hearing and working with mountaineers. In a land with few books… — Harry M. Caudill Copy Share Image
“When he read his father’s books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
At the age of about eight years, if he is a boy, she turns him over to his father for more Spartan… — Charles Eastman Copy Share Image
“If your mindset is different from your parents… If you’re ready to break limits and stop making excuses… Then nothing can stop… — Onipede Ayomide Copy Share Image
“I was pretty sure that somewhere in the mother’s handbook, it said your kids shouldn’t have to bribe you to get hugged.” — Kristan Higgins Copy Share Image
I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
“Anything else, Your Majesty?" "I didn't say my prayers." "I'll say them for you. Our father who art in et cetera, bless… — Maggie Osborne Copy Share Image
I find I'm the sort of harried working mother who has difficulty scheduling in a bit of rest amid the Ptolemaically complicated… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
Congrats to all the overworked and under-appreciated fathers and fathers to be. To all those lazy no good bastards that leave their… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Being a parent is not easy, but speaking for myself, it's a wonderful blessing and the most rewarding job I've ever had. — Eric Benet Copy Share Image
