Ends Quote by Brian K. Vaughan

Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.

— Russell Crowe

I think that the story of mothers and daughters is so universal.

— Tamlyn Tomita

Thousands of years of human history have shown that the ideal setting for children to grow up is with a mother and a father…

— Marco Rubio

Story is the mother of us all, for we become who we say we are.

— Christina Baldwin

All the cliches are true about parenting. All I've ever wanted to do is be a father, but there's this existential mirror that's held…

— John Krasinski

Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before…

— Marianne Williamson

If you're a father of a child who dies, it's an experience that never leaves you. It scars you forever and ever and ever.…

— Frank Deford

There's a story behind everything..but behind all your stories is always your mother's story..because hers is where yours begins.

— Mitch Albom

The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids,…

— Marcus Samuelsson

My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get…

— Anna Quindlen

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

— Jodi Picoult

When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your early years;…

— Rebecca Solnit