I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the… — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Copy Share Image
I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet?… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning. — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that. — Bonnie McKee Copy Share Image
Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them… — Alan Shearer Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my parents were too cheap to buy a snowblower, so my crippled butt was out clearing the… — Josh Blue Copy Share Image
As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education. — Sue Kelly Copy Share Image
“I want to banish fear from your life. I want you to feel loved and surrounded by My presence as Father—a presence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do a lot of cooking. I've always cooked for my family and my father and I cooked together. It's just one… — Brad Lewis Copy Share Image
There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. There's fennel for you, and columbines:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“ Just ignore him and he’ll go away, my mother used to say to Gillian when we were young and I bugged… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
My father said, 'You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
“I was young once. I was clear of eye and my hair was like harvested wheat. The sun caught it and made… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There can be no fooling ourselves into thinking this is something other than what it is—the willful ejection of Molly from our… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
My parents brought me up to be comfortable in one's own body. And I have always been comfortable in my own skin. — Varun Dhawan Copy Share Image
“His mother shakes her head. “Everyone thinks they know what’s best. Everyone.” And then a voice behind him says, “Sometimes you need… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
The only thing my mother would say to me about my music - I'd say, "Mom, listen to this," and she'd say,… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it’s because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
The simple, daily influences of prayer, persuasion, and promoting of godly values are the most powerful tools a mother can use to… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
“Atronius lifted up and held the robe. “There we are. The robe of a King.” “Father forgive them for they… — Julian Noyce Copy Share Image
“The scars of broken trust often remind me to be cautious with whom to give my trust. At least from my mother's… — Joseph Jacson K Copy Share Image
“cruel mothers are still mothers. they make us wars. they make us revolution. they teach us the truth. early. mothers are humans.… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way. — John Lone Copy Share Image
Often, parents feel overwhelmed. Many must accomplish the whole job single-handedly while bearing all of the emotional pain of divorce. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I don't know how I could love my daughter anymore than I do. I couldn't, and I don't know how I could,… — Leslie Grossman Copy Share Image
It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you,… — Ouida Copy Share Image
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“You can never have too many knives, his father had told him. Unless they're pointed at you, and by people who don't… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I changed high schools three times because my parents moved. I had one friend my freshman year named Miki Vukovich. Miki and… — Tony Hawk Copy Share Image
...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject,… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
It's difficult to always have to be contextualized within the careers of your parents, and it's difficult not to feel like you… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
