Begging Quote by Frank McCourt

I don't want to constantly berate my father - I wish him well, and I hope he finds peace - but he put my…

— James Haven

All of these things we do without children, and suddenly we don't do them anymore, and it comes home to us in a real…

— Joan Didion

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at…

— Jean de la Bruyere

No child, through her own will, can pull a mother out of her suffering, and as an adult, I have been very busy.

— Sheila Heti

I'm always responsible and a father, you want the best for your children. You push hard. You have to teach him things of life.

— Jos Verstappen

“Society tried to teach me that children are by nature selfish, out-of-control, and demanding, that their goal is power and that they are always…

— Hilary Flower

“Suffer the little children to come unto Me.” Is there a prayerless father reading this? May God let the arrow go down into your…

— D.L. Moody

The time a father feels most helpless is when he is unable tofulfil his own child's needs.

— Mak_786

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't…

— Anthony Kiedis

First of all, a lot of people, a lot of women and men, have lost their children. I'm not the only one. But I…

— Afeni Shakur

I think my mother taught me what not to do. She put us first, always, sometimes to the detriment of herself. She encouraged me…

— Michelle Obama

“Because so much of the needy mother's energies go into her own suffering, she has little left over for her children's needs. Her son…

— Susan Forward