Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
When we look at our children, I think a lot of the troubles we're having as a society is because we don't… — Benjamin Watson Copy Share Image
“When faced with first time fatherhood at the age of 49, I didn’t know whether to celebrate with champagne… or hemlock.” — Len Filppu Copy Share Image
My father's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials double-V, so she named my sisters Victoria and Valerie. That's cool,… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
Mothers are truly great who can do anything for you. But no one can do what a mother can for her child.… — Urvashi Rautela Copy Share Image
My parents, they were both Socialists; they were young - 30, 31. They were both successful career people. They had been teachers,… — Maria Cornejo Copy Share Image
Little sister: Dad! I Wash the dishes! Father: Really!?Thats my good girl!And what does your Elder brother do? Elder brother: I help… — Veronica Daaco Copy Share Image
Our mother's first gift to us comes at the moment we are born, because Mom, as she will subsequently remind us over… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
So instead she settled on, "Did my father put you up to this?" Hale exhaled a quick laugh and shook his head.… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“It was then, for the first time, that Will saw the kind of help Marcus needed. Fiona had given him the idea… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge,… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
“Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
Thats definitely some B.S. You can be boyfriend and girlfriend for more than three or four years without being engaged. Your parents,… — Keri Hilson Copy Share Image
“The gifts and the lessons my father left me will last forever: Never take yourself too seriously, never miss a chance to… — Anne Serling Copy Share Image
“John Quincy Adams subscribed to the thesis that his mother's generation was unique when he complained to [his wife] that there were… — Cokie Roberts Copy Share Image
I was completely unconventional in everything, which my mother found very difficult. I was a huge tomboy. — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image
Girl-wise, I never got the girl. Because of my mother and our economy, I never had clothes. And I never - like… — Larry Johnson Copy Share Image
“Even if you are what your parents made you, if you stay that way, it’s your own darn fault. We’re not going… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sarah have been giving the credit to her mother and grandmother—to all of the incredible women she’d connected with at the yarn… — Bella Andre Copy Share Image
“When one knows that he is his mother's child, and proceeds to guard (the qualities of) the mother that belong to him,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“...if he were in his right mind. Shiloh knew that his father had taken a left turn at some point, however, and… — Adrianna Scovill Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, one doesn't get typecast. You can play a mother in one film and take up the role of a high… — Koena Mitra Copy Share Image
If you do anything well, gratitude is lighter than a feather; if you give offense in anything, people's wrath is as heavy… — Plautus Copy Share Image
And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
“I’m going to end up like my mother. She left it too late to remember who she actually was before she became… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
“The child is father of the man….attributed to Sigmund Freud, but believed to have been coined by a well-known poet years before… — Shirl Solomon Copy Share Image
I didn't see deep emotion from my parents. It was all very polite and very surface. I never knew how anybody was… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“The more I think I am lagging behind, the farther I go. And the farther I think I have gone, the more… — Solomon Ndaa Ayamga Copy Share Image
~I'm strict about manners. I think that kids have a horrible time with other people if they have bad manners… The one… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
“Mothers can be so dense. Just act like you approve of what we're doing. We'll soon do the exact opposite, just to… — Cat Clarke Copy Share Image
“I heard the footsteps of my fathers steel-toed boots as he left before the sun had risen and I thought for a… — Emily Curtis Copy Share Image
My mother is my root, my foundation. She planted the seed that I base my life on, and that is the belief… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
My father used to say that you haven't learnt anything about politics unless you've been out of power for at least 10… — Naveen Patnaik Copy Share Image
[My father] didn't make much money, and I tell a lot of people, you know, I was a vegetarian before people knew… — Hank Aaron Copy Share Image
That awkward moment when your parents tell you to stay in the line when youre shopping, and when youre almost near the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She was the sort of parent you would want to have living close by, but only on the grounds that she would… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
![“John Quincy Adams subscribed to the thesis that his mother's generation was unique when he complained to [his wife] that there were no modern women like her. Abigail, God love her, shot back that women might act frivolous and flighty, but only because men wanted them to.” quote by Cokie Roberts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41a/cokie-roberts-27173_god-love_john-quincy-adams-subscribed-to-the-thes_261463.png)
![“[My father] didn't make much money, and I tell a lot of people, you know, I was a vegetarian before people knew what a vegetarian was. That's all I ate was vegetables.” quote by Hank Aaron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e1/hank-aaron-7857_father_my-father-didn-t-make-much-money-and-i-t_2006376.jpg)
