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
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
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
All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help. — Nas 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
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
“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
“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
A lot of my friends aren't parents. I find this culture of all-consuming motherhood so oppressive. Not that I don't like to… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image
Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys,… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
The tendency in our spiritual life but also our more general attitude toward love is that our feelings are all that is… — Brian Kolodiejchuk Copy Share Image
You might wish to revisit your understanding of the word everything.” Gregory turned to his mother. “Vocabulary and comprehension were never her… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“That was why he still hadn’t called her. He wasn’t sure what the hell he was going to say if she picked… — M.A. Grant Copy Share Image
“While every parental behavior sends out a message of some kind, it is only the repetitive themes that form the child's picture… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
I am a far better grandmother than I was a mother. My daughters would back me up on this. As a mother… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
“At almost three, I was the baby girl, a waif, blond sprouting in competing directions from my scalp. My nose was wider… — Carly Simon 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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“We mothers can testify that it is impossible to completely control a child. It’s like trying to steer a cat. Toni sorenson” — Toni Sorenson Copy Share Image
“But thinking back now makes me scared for my former self the way any mother would be scared for her teenage daughter… — Sophia Amoruso 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
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
...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison. — Oscar Wilde 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
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
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
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
Domestic violence was a way of life in my home growing up, my brother and I watched helplessly numerous times as my… — Troy Vincent Copy Share Image
I don't get mad when I see you with another girl, because my parents taught me to give my toys to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother was a seamstress, so I always grew up with her making clothes. I knew how to construct outfits. I knew… — Edward Enninful Copy Share Image
“Fear makes even strong me do things they might never do otherwise, and my father was never strong. - Arianne” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The sun that shines today is the sun that shone when thy father was born, and will still be shining when thy… — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
