Quotes about Mother and Father

Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am. Votes: 3

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame. Votes: 2

I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option. Votes: 2

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. Votes: 2

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you. Votes: 2

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from. Votes: 2

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years. Votes: 2

If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count. Votes: 2

Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth. Votes: 2

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful. Votes: 2

I, Kim Heechul, was born to successfully make women fall in love with me. It's not my fault. It's not of my own free will. My mother and father created this face. Votes: 2

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes. Votes: 2

All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye. Votes: 2

We are not heading for an eternal void and an eternal silence but we are on our way to an encounter, an encounter with Him who created us and loves us more than mother and father. Votes: 2

My mother - both my mother and father had very successful careers. My mother's an English professor and my father is a scientist and physician. They worked at the same jobs for their entire life, 50 years each Votes: 2

The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. Votes: 2

I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today. Votes: 2

If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well. Votes: 2

All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place. Votes: 2

In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to the benefit of society as a whole.... I always thank the Lord in seeing mothers and fathers of large families, together with their children, committed to the life of the Church and of society. Votes: 2

When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street. Votes: 2

Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions. Votes: 1

My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why. Votes: 1

I loved my mother and father. Votes: 0

No mother, no father, no Sight. Votes: 0

A mother's pride, a father's joy. Votes: 0

Father-Mother is the name for Deity ... Votes: 0

Like father like son, like mother like daughter! Votes: 0

My mother is French, my father is Texan. Votes: 0

The theater was my mother and my father. Votes: 0

Father's Day just be Mother's Day the sequel. Votes: 0

My mother and father were interested in the arts. Votes: 0

Most people marry their mother. I married my father. Votes: 0

My mother left my father in their late 60s. Votes: 0

My father is Swedish and my mother is French. Votes: 0

God Father (the Creator) geometrizes, God Mother (Nature) fractalizes. Votes: 0

My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father. Votes: 0

Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress. Votes: 0

Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death. Votes: 0

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother. Votes: 0

I am the son of an illiterate father and mother Votes: 0

My father and my mother separated when I was two. Votes: 0

Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father. Votes: 0

If Nature is our mother, then God is our father. Votes: 0

I look a lot like my father and his mother. Votes: 0

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind. Votes: 0

My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist. Votes: 0

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. Votes: 0

I've always stayed really close with my mother and my father. Votes: 0

Father's Day is like Mother's Day except the gift is cheaper. Votes: 0

My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher. Votes: 0

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona. Votes: 0

Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father. Votes: 0

If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father. Votes: 0

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme. Votes: 0

My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania. Votes: 0

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker. Votes: 0

My father and mother separated when I was two months old. Votes: 0

God is our father, but even more is God our mother. Votes: 0

I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race. Votes: 0

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt. Votes: 0

The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed. Votes: 0

My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia. Votes: 0

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers. Votes: 0

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company. Votes: 0

My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children. Votes: 0

My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk. Votes: 0

Every father says the same thing: “Where's your mother?” Votes: 0

Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries Votes: 0

My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model. Votes: 0

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother. Votes: 0

My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer. Votes: 0

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated. Votes: 0

Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother. Votes: 0

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. Votes: 0

The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence. Votes: 0

My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife. Votes: 0

Last words of his mother to his father: Keep eternity before the children. Votes: 0

Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father. Votes: 0

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation. Votes: 0

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair. Votes: 0

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. Votes: 0

As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother. Votes: 0

My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer. Votes: 0

My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled Votes: 0

My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting. Votes: 0

Love your mother, she bore you. Love your father, he works for you. Votes: 0

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams. Votes: 0

Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you. Votes: 0

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father. Votes: 0

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother. Votes: 0

My mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better. Votes: 0

But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father. Votes: 0

If my father was the head of our house, my mother was its heart. Votes: 0

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man. Votes: 0

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education. Votes: 0

My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer. Votes: 0

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother. Votes: 0

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father. Votes: 0

On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin. Votes: 0

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor. Votes: 0

If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. Votes: 0

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. Votes: 0

Holy mother!" "Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference." -Hephaetus Votes: 0

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. Votes: 0

They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak. Votes: 0

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister. Votes: 0

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. Votes: 0

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister, Votes: 0

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. Votes: 0

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. Votes: 0

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. Votes: 0

Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee. Votes: 0

My mother wasnʹt sleeping with anybody. She doesnʹt even sleep with my father. Votes: 0

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly. Votes: 0

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. Votes: 0

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff. Votes: 0

The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind. Votes: 0

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. Votes: 0

My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist. Votes: 0

My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University. Votes: 0

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner. Votes: 0

My father was on the Alcoholics Anonymous wishlist. My mother was on... parole. And lithium. Votes: 0

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry. Votes: 0

I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood. Votes: 0

When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it. Votes: 0

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education. Votes: 0

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father. Votes: 0

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24 Votes: 0

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. Votes: 0

I have my mother's mouth and my father's eyes; on my face they are still together. Votes: 0

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home. Votes: 0

Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother. Votes: 0

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's. Votes: 0

My mother is black and my father is Filipino. I got the best of both worlds. Votes: 0

Younger kids, they understand that things aren't so perfect with their father or with their mother. Votes: 0

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything. Votes: 0

My mother's father was Jewish, so she was very conservative. She liked little, pretty music-orchestral-type things. Votes: 0

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother. Votes: 0

My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian. Votes: 0

"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness Votes: 0

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past. Votes: 0

I'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did. Votes: 0

My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—" She married a house? Votes: 0

Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father. Votes: 0

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Votes: 0

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father. Votes: 0

A minister stands for Father Peace, but a good one is no stranger to Mother War. Votes: 0

I'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband. Votes: 0

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child. Votes: 0

He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother. Votes: 0

My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer. Votes: 0

... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried. Votes: 0

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. Votes: 0

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. Votes: 0

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. Votes: 0

I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive. Votes: 0

My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it. Votes: 0

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile. Votes: 0

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment. Votes: 0

Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke. Votes: 0

My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father. Votes: 0

Elvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother. Votes: 0

To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession. Votes: 0

Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild. Votes: 0

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father. Votes: 0

My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage. Votes: 0

Kuwait is the mother and father, Earth and it's supplies. She is the past, present and future. Votes: 0

My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening. Votes: 0

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father. Votes: 0

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother. Votes: 0

My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really. Votes: 0

He who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father. Votes: 0

I had a beautiful mother and a famous father, and I didn't know where I fit in. Votes: 0

My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden. Votes: 0

My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. Votes: 0

Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old. Votes: 0

I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. Votes: 0

My father has fair skin, and my mother is dark, and I'm kind of cafe au lait. Votes: 0

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father. Votes: 0

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father. Votes: 0

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college. Votes: 0

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. Votes: 0

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. Votes: 0

I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do? Votes: 0

My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring. Votes: 0

Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father Votes: 0

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher. Votes: 0

When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life. Votes: 0

I'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else. Votes: 0

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd. Votes: 0

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them. Votes: 0

Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!. Votes: 0

There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father. Votes: 0

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background. Votes: 0

As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging. Votes: 0

Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father? Votes: 0

My father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators. Votes: 0

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. Votes: 0

The sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family. Votes: 0

A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all. Votes: 0

I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father. Votes: 0

If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before. Votes: 0

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books. Votes: 0

Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God. Votes: 0

Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen". Votes: 0

Sean Óg ó Hailpín.... his father's from Fermanagh, his mother's from Fiji, neither a hurling stronghold. Votes: 0

See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child Votes: 0

My father was everything to me. Unlike my mother - I didn't have a special affinity with her. Votes: 0

My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me. Votes: 0

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. Votes: 0

I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands. Votes: 0

We had a great time on the bench talking about crime, mother-stabbin', father raping, all kinds of groovy things. Votes: 0

Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house. Votes: 0

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction. Votes: 0

The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country. Votes: 0

My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well. Votes: 0

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction. Votes: 0

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother. Votes: 0

Real Womanhood isn’t a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father. Votes: 0

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you! Votes: 0

Now here's a funky introduction of how nice I am, Tell your mother, tell your father, send a telegram. Votes: 0

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome. Votes: 0

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her. Votes: 0

The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology. Votes: 0

There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap. Votes: 0

God is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body. Votes: 0

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased Votes: 0

[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding. Votes: 0

Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. Votes: 0

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. Votes: 0

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers. Votes: 0

I was very fortunate to have had a mother and father who loved me in spite of my failings. Votes: 0

My mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group. Votes: 0

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them. Votes: 0

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world. Votes: 0

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands. Votes: 0

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother. Votes: 0

My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer. Votes: 0

Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due? Votes: 0

My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family. Votes: 0

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline. Votes: 0

I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living. Votes: 0

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper. Votes: 0

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother. Votes: 0

The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist. Votes: 0

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline. Votes: 0

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them. Votes: 0

My father and mother. I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material. Votes: 0

My wife is the most wonderful woman in the world, and my parents are the most extraordinary father and mother. Votes: 0

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood. Votes: 0

The loving care of Mother Earth is in many quarters replacing the former sense of obedience to the Heavenly Father. Votes: 0

A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust. Votes: 0

You both sicken me. (Markus) It's what I live for"Father. Your eternal disgust succors me like mother's milk. (Fang) Votes: 0

You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War. Votes: 0

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children. Votes: 0

Family doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister. Votes: 0

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps. Votes: 0

A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon Votes: 0

The best way to be a good father to your children is to be a good husband to their mother. Votes: 0

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation. Votes: 0

I couldn't be as charming as my mother or as smart as my father. So I decided to be bad. Votes: 0

And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed. Votes: 0

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation." Votes: 0

Anthony's father was a mad baronet and his mother a very beautiful woman. That's Anthony-half mad baronet, half beautiful woman. Votes: 0

If you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen. Votes: 0

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978. Votes: 0

I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery. Votes: 0

Since my father died and I stopped trusting my mother, no one else's arms have made me feel this safe. Votes: 0

Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John. Votes: 0

My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia. Votes: 0

My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled. Votes: 0

Marriage is a walk in the park compared to being a single mother or father. I'll take that walk later. Votes: 0

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife. Votes: 0

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted. Votes: 0

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love... Votes: 0

My mother and father stressed education and always made sure we had a place to study and books to read. Votes: 0

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast. Votes: 0

They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee. Votes: 0

Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry. Votes: 0

A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other. Votes: 0

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood. Votes: 0

My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her. Votes: 0

I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it. Votes: 0

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians. Votes: 0

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone. Votes: 0

Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father. Votes: 0

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live. Votes: 0

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife. Votes: 0

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of. Votes: 0

The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. Votes: 0

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin. Votes: 0

I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy. Votes: 0

Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love... Votes: 0

There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day. It would mean a lot. World peace. Votes: 0

Yes' is the mother of all positive words, next to 'love.' Maybe 'love' is the father of all positive words. Votes: 0

When my mother died, I fell apart. My father wanted to control me. As a consequence, I ran away to America. Votes: 0

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man. Votes: 0

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin. Votes: 0

I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it. Votes: 0

I have my father to thank for my build and height, and my mother to thank for my lips and eyes. Votes: 0

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education. Votes: 0

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it. Votes: 0

The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French. Votes: 0

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India. Votes: 0

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities. Votes: 0

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up. Votes: 0

Later in life, the memories I have of my mother are of constant work balanced with caring for my ailing father. Votes: 0

When we see all women as the divine mother and all men as the divine father, everyone you meet is sacred. Votes: 0

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce. Votes: 0

My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school. Votes: 0

My father has been the silent force behind my success. My mother has been a constant source of guidance in my career. Votes: 0

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends. Votes: 0

To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father's hand and your mother's lap. Votes: 0

Thou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life. Votes: 0

My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P. Votes: 0

The stupendous truth of the existence of a Heavenly Mother, as well as a Heavenly Father, became established facts in Mormon Theology. Votes: 0

Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee. Votes: 0

I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family. Votes: 0

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs. Votes: 0

My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today's street obsession with bling, cars or cribs. Votes: 0

When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she? Votes: 0

Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married. Votes: 0

I want to have young children although my mother and father are even now young sufficient to just take care of them. Votes: 0

Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death. Votes: 0

Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast. Votes: 0

You know you've built a product that can hit the mainstream when your wife, your father, and your mother-in-law can get involved. Votes: 0

Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel. Votes: 0

I would have to say that my mother's entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father's, are very evident in my own outlook. Votes: 0

I think that at some point everybody turns into their mother or their father, it's just not normally from morning to afternoon. Votes: 0

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them. Votes: 0

My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany. Votes: 0

Being a father ... I can't help feeling that, by comparison with being a mother, being a father is a rather abstract business. Votes: 0

Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her. Votes: 0

I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens. Votes: 0

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats. Votes: 0

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that. Votes: 0

When God is a father, he is said to be elsewhere. When God is a mother, she is said to be everywhere. Votes: 0

My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids wont grow up to be connected to him. Votes: 0

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides. Votes: 0

I look at Barack [Obama], he's slim like my father, and Michelle's [Obama] full figured like my mother. And I just love it. Votes: 0

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation. Votes: 0

My father's love was always strongMy mother's glamour lives on and on.Yet still inside I felt alone, for reasones unknow to me. Votes: 0

I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely. Votes: 0

My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did. Votes: 0

I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true. Votes: 0

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little. Votes: 0

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother. Votes: 0

A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home. Votes: 0

They were soul mates, my mother and father. They claimed to adore each other, as if the word 'adore' meant 'argue with ceaselessly. Votes: 0

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other. Votes: 0

In a husband there is only a man; in a married woman there is a man, a father, and mother, and a woman. Votes: 0

As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian. Votes: 0

My mother is a Muslim - she walks five steps behind my father. She doesn't have to. He just looks better from behind. Votes: 0

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition. Votes: 0

My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American. Votes: 0

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love. Votes: 0

My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton. Votes: 0

From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two. Votes: 0

People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory. Votes: 0

God has not made anything that I know of that pays so much attention to who their father and mother is as us. Votes: 0

Both my parents died on the young side. My father was 45, and my mother was 61, so cancer's affected me in a big way. Votes: 0

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. Votes: 0

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion. Votes: 0

My father has been the real anchor of the family. Hes the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me. Votes: 0

My mother, my father, I love 'em, I hate 'em, wish god I didnt have 'em, but thank god that he made 'em Votes: 0

My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order! Votes: 0

To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing. Votes: 0

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. Votes: 0

What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours. Votes: 0

I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so Ive always felt other. Votes: 0

I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother. Votes: 0

I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western. Votes: 0

During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted. Votes: 0

My father has been the real anchor of the family. He's the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me. Votes: 0

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about. Votes: 0

The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness. Votes: 0

My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother. Votes: 0

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis. Votes: 0

My family is Abenaki Indian on my mother's side. My father's side of the family is Slovak, and we also have some English ancestry. Votes: 0

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13. Votes: 0

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too. Votes: 0

The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority. Votes: 0

My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed. Votes: 0

It is very difficult, it is perhaps impossible, for someone who loves his mother to love the woman whom your father left her for. Votes: 0

My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful. Votes: 0

it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free. Votes: 0

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all. Votes: 0

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost. Votes: 0

A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father. Votes: 0

Whether you're a mother or father, or a husband or a son, or a niece or a nephew or uncle, breast cancer doesn't discriminate. Votes: 0

God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves. Votes: 0

Family was real important in putting me on my path. I'm so blessed to come from a home with a mother and a father. Votes: 0

A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father. Votes: 0

My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work. Votes: 0

I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money! Votes: 0

I am still confused because I still don't know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there. Votes: 0

My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best. Votes: 0

My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born. Votes: 0

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off. Votes: 0

When liberals say 'family', they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.' When we say 'family,' we mean 'honor thy father and mother.' Votes: 0

That is not a crack house. It is a house with a family with a father and a mother and three sons and a daughter. Votes: 0

My mother was so house proud that when my father got up to sleepwalk she had the bed made by the time he got back. Votes: 0

I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends. Votes: 0

My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old. Votes: 0

As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body. Votes: 0

We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school. Votes: 0

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver. Votes: 0

My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother. Votes: 0

I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers. Votes: 0

My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly. Votes: 0

My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother. Votes: 0

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father. Votes: 0

I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my mother told me I was adopted. Votes: 0

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play. Votes: 0

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves. Votes: 0

My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My gentleness comes from my mother. Votes: 0

You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live. Votes: 0

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father. Votes: 0

As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility. Votes: 0

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction. Votes: 0

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love. Votes: 0

Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay. Votes: 0

You are the mother, the father, the sister, the brother, the teacher and the guide for the soul that has been placed in your trust. Votes: 0

We are all the siblings of Kuwait. She is the mother and the father, and we are the shield that protects her from her enemies Votes: 0

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood. Votes: 0

My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up. Votes: 0

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon. Votes: 0

My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.' Votes: 0

My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be, I could be Vice President! Votes: 0

I'm actually half Brit and half American. I have a British father and an American mother, but as far as I'm aware, no Middle Eastern blood. Votes: 0

I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life. Votes: 0

Now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire family, as well as myself, my woman, and my team that I consider family. Votes: 0

I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride. Votes: 0

I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five. Votes: 0

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit. Votes: 0

If we can genuinely honor our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future. Votes: 0

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father's or mother's life? Votes: 0

My father worked for IBM. My mother raised us kids. There were six of us, and a couple of extra foster kids at any given time. Votes: 0

My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so I consider myself a Bathonian. Votes: 0

You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are. Votes: 0

Take the brown eyes of my father, those gun shots, those mean muds. Bury them. Take the blue eyes of my mother, naked as the sea.... Votes: 0

For every hour a mother gets to herself, a father will demand five times that amount for drinking with friends and acting like an immature dipshit. Votes: 0

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general. Votes: 0

My father's a keen sportsman, and so is my mother. My mother's brothers all played international rugby for Samoa. That's where I got my dreams from. Votes: 0

When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste. Votes: 0

My mother and father have brought us up to respect everyone with the same equal love and honor them, and you're supposed to honor your profession. Votes: 0

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed. Votes: 0

When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them tostop fighting? Votes: 0

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. Votes: 0

I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear? Votes: 0

My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins. Votes: 0

I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that. Votes: 0

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused. Votes: 0

When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family to lay down their arms. Votes: 0

I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me. Votes: 0

When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing. Votes: 0

When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library. Votes: 0

Out of everything - out of the money and the gift bags - the most important thing to me is just my mother and father being happy. Votes: 0

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral. Votes: 0

I hadn't thought about the fact that I was a foster child but, did notice that (in films) I'm often without a mother or father or both. Votes: 0

I was exposed to violence while I was still in the womb - my father punched my mother in the stomach while she was pregnant with me. Votes: 0

One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits. Votes: 0

Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests. Votes: 0

We are not a nation, so much as a world; for unless we claim all the world for our sire, like Melchisedec, we are without father or mother. Votes: 0

When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse? Votes: 0

You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter. Votes: 0

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. Votes: 0

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me. Votes: 0

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god. Votes: 0

I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock. Votes: 0

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father, and she hung up the phone on me Votes: 0

I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade. Votes: 0

It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions! Votes: 0

Before my mother died, she made me promise to do everything that could be done to make sure my father was not left alone after she was gone. Votes: 0

Any man that has had a mother, has a sister, wants to be a father will find this [movie Bad Moms] incredibly eye opening and hysterical and funny. Votes: 0

For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like an acorn holds an oak tree. Votes: 0

It felt natural. That is what I remember most about becoming a father halfway through my 20s. As if Mother Nature was giving me the big thumbs up. Votes: 0

I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my father was with us, and my mother lived in Jersey. Votes: 0

I guessed my mother figured if my father got right down to the task of eating he wouldn't be so inclined to jump up and strangle my grandmother. Votes: 0

The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night. Votes: 0

After one is right with God and pleases God, the next most important thing in all the world is to be right with one's own father and mother. Votes: 0

I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and I have had a better chance. Votes: 0

My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather. Votes: 0

My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long. Votes: 0

I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet. Votes: 0

My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church. Votes: 0

Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in. Votes: 0

my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about how it was a privilege and if only he could Votes: 0

I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s. Votes: 0

The father is the head of the home; the mother is the heart of the home; the children are the reward, the joy and the life of the home. Votes: 0

I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African. Votes: 0

Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built. Votes: 0

We arrived the way most emigrant families did. My father came first, and the rest of us - my mother, my sister and me - followed a year later. Votes: 0

[My father] could see as far as he could see and my mother wanted us to go to college so it was a very real part of my life. Votes: 0

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity. Votes: 0

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future. Votes: 0

My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories. Votes: 0

My father was what you would call a cowboy, a vaquero; he worked out in the ranches with cattle. And my mother came from farmers down in the valley. Votes: 0

What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God. Votes: 0