“Father once told me there was a sweet spot to life between the age of fifteen and sixty-five when you were fully… — J.D. Barker Copy Share Image
My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so… — Teresa Palmer Copy Share Image
I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
Losing a parent makes you realize how temporary everything is - you're looking through someone's whole life in a drawer, and they're… — Richard Jenkins Copy Share Image
Fertility is hereditary. If your parents didn't have any children, neither will you. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I'd always imagined that one day I would be a father, but mostly it was off my radar. I admired friends who… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I never thought to ascribe my mother's emotional and physical exhaustion to the lack of a husband and father; rather, I ascribed… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“Farmers aren't rich. They have land but no money." Actually, my father didn't even have that much land. He had once stood… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not… — Noemie Lenoir Copy Share Image
I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made 'Boxes' because I wanted to… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
“There is a visitor, Countess.” “A visitor?” Mother looks toward the rain-drenched windows. “Who would be out in this mess? Has their… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
“Did you know that the Russians sent dogs into space? My mother told me this when I was a boy. Nobody knew… — Craig Davidson Copy Share Image
My mother had a fifth-grade education when my father passed away. I was 12 years old - but my mother took on… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
“She cried over the messed up messy mess of her life, over her parents' failures and her own shortcomings.” — Stephanie Bond Copy Share Image
My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
“It is not. Mom loves me, and she would not leave me without any explanation." And then her father began to cry.” — Sharon Creech Walk Two Moons Copy Share Image
In looking at photos from my childhood, I discovered something I did not know... that on my father's birthdays, I have photographs… — Steve Doocy Copy Share Image
“These hands elate my life, choke me, broil my bosom, spank me, give fire to my words, my words, mother, my heart… — Laura Gentile Copy Share Image
“death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in… — Robert Saucy Copy Share Image
I'll never forget my father's response when I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, 'If you do this,… — Cassandra Dunn Copy Share Image
True success in any endeavor can only come when the Father has initiated the activity and invited our participation. — Priscilla Shirer Copy Share Image
“Don’t let this choice [of a marriage partner] ever be made except with earnest, searching, prayerful consideration, confiding in parents, [and] in… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
Entrust yourself entirely to God. He is a Father and a most loving Father at that, who would rather let heaven and… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
People were saying I should work with a real coach, someone who has experience. But my father has been working with me… — Caroline Garcia Copy Share Image
My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed… — Duane Chapman Copy Share Image
My mother found a letter, though, that I wrote her when I was 8 years old and it was a letter where… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
I am a first-generation American of Chinese decent. My parents were both born and raised in China and moved to the U.S.… — Nathan Chen Copy Share Image
There is no relation more intimately personal than that of parents to the child they have brought into the world; and there… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts Against their father, fool me not so much To bear it tamely; touch… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My mother is back to who she was years ago. Its like a new page me and her are beginning on. I… — Drake Copy Share Image
“To anyone who has lost a parent, always remember that the strength of their love gives us all the strength we need.” — Joe Funderburk Copy Share Image
I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on. — Jared Kushner Copy Share Image
Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Whoever woulda thought that the little mother fucker from the land woulda' came up and made them stacks. Never was warm in… — Machine Gun Kelly Copy Share Image
A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status. — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image