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There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about. — Shirley Knight

My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool foundation. — Jeff Bridges

Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child. — Edward Zigler

Your lifelong rebellion against all forms of authority stems from the infant's desire to murder the father and possess the mother. — Donald O'Donovan

My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who continue to love and support me despite my obsessions. — Jonathan Ball

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. — Justin Townes Earle

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. — Ozzy Osbourne

For which cause a man will leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife, and the two shall be one flesh', — Leo Tolstoy

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

The Brat - Victoria to her second-grade teacher, Vicki to her mother, but the Brat to her father and in her heart - was — Joe Hill

Family doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister. — Bindi Irwin

Blindness to knowledge was his mother and despair of death his father. Darkness and fear gave birth to God. Awareness of truth will kill him. — C.J. Anderson

God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves. — Saint John Chrysostom

I had to be an adult, be a father without a son, so for one last moment I needed to be a son who needed his mother. — Ruth Ahmed

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation. — Steve Maraboli

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. — Bill Griffith

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians. — Brandi Carlile

Children need love and discipline. They need mothers and fathers. A welfare check is not a husband. The state is not a father. — Rush Limbaugh

The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father. — Alexander McCall Smith

I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father. — Natalie Massenet

Thou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life. — Guru Arjan

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. — V.S. Naipaul

Jelena Gencic was born in October 1936 to a Serb father and Austrian mother. — Chris Bowers

He can't be a baby forever. He's a Stark, and near four." Robb sighed. "Well, Mother will be home soon. And I'll bring back Father, I promise. — George R R Martin

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father. — Greg Norman

God has not made anything that I know of that pays so much attention to who their father and mother is as us. — Bill Cosby

My last name is Wellsley, but a lot of people say it's Lowendowski, which is my mother's last name, and I had it changed to my father's when I was 18. — Cory Wells

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

I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option. — Drew Barrymore

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support. — Princess Diana

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers. — John Lewis

I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bit of French, a bit of Scottish, a bit of Irish. — Adelaide Kane

I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do? — Lou Reed

I didn't know at first that there were two languages in Canada.Ijustthoughtthatthere was oneway tospeak to my father and another to talk to my mother. — Louis St. Laurent

My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer. — Liza Minnelli

I suppose my mother could have been a witch if she had chosen to. But she met my father, who was a rather saintly clergyman, and he cancelled her out. — Mary Stewart

The father's role, he says, is to provide the mother with the peace and security she needs to be a good enough mother. — Massimilla Harris

All of us must be saints in this world. Holiness is a duty for you and me. So let's be saints and so give glory to the Father. — Mother Teresa

I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me. — Laverne Cox

This story is dedicated to all those who help, and all those who care. — James D. Scanlon

My future is always plural. It is always about my mother and my father and my aunties and my sister. — Daisy Hernandez

My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of acting. — Margot Robbie

When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal. — Loudon Wainwright III

When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it. — Euzhan Palcy

My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife -
She married a house? — Sherrilyn Kenyon

As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born a wish to punish his father and mother and other enemies. — Truman Capote

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously. — Roz Chast

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father. — Maurice Sendak

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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. — Cherie Lunghi

You are my son, then, I'll tell you' and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you possessed. — Emily Bronte

Affirmation: My Father/Mother God is embracing me and holding me so tightly that nothing can stop nor touch me. — Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college. — Roma Downey

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin. — Virginia Madsen

A well-bred duckling spreads his feet wide apart, just like his father and mother, in this way. Now bend your neck, and say 'quack.'" The — Hans Christian Andersen

The theater was my mother and my father. — Ingrid Bergman

I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California. — Michael Trevino

He dreaded the sound of his father's car in the driveway at night, knowing he would have to protect his mother, and probably be beaten in the process. — John Glatt

My mother is my father's wife. And the children of lovers are orphans. — Nancy Horan

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. — Chang-rae Lee

Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.
Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen". — Richard Nance

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. — Angus Buchan

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from. — Chuck D

There is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap. — Faraaz Kazi

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands. — Hermione Gingold

Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John. — Jim Gaffigan

You come from a wonderful family: Your father is the Divine. Your mother is the Earth. You have many siblings. And you are loved. — Robbie Vorhaus

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting. — Tina Turner

I feel that I am pregnant by music, and it is the father and mother of my child. — R. Kelly

They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother. — Martin McGuinness

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. — Michael Jackson

Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; 3. That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. — Anonymous

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

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child. — Yoko Ono

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything. — Carly Simon

My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia. — Kaniehtiio Horn

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion. — Lincoln Steffens

A father's suspicion...' she began.
Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.'

~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon — Alice Sebold

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

I loved my mother and father. — Roger Moore

My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children. — Seamus Heaney

My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me. — King George V

I have my father to thank for my build and height, and my mother to thank for my lips and eyes. — Jasmine Guinness

Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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. — Margaret Mead

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. — Kirk Douglas

My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool. — Stephen A. Schwarzman

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. — Robert Orben

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. — Chazz Palminteri

I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it. — Laurence J. Peter

My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor. — Ruth Reichl

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. — John R. Rice

I grew up in a second when my mother died," he told Sunil. "My father and brother didn't understand me. — Katherine Boo

The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators. — James Rosenquist

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. — Natasha Trethewey

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! — Chet Faker

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough. — Cate Blanchett

My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother. — Jeff Bridges

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. — David Johansen