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My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background. — Chris Hayes

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 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

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

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

Father's Day just be Mother's Day the sequel. — J. B. Smoove

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

A minister stands for Father Peace, but a good one is no stranger to Mother War. — Joe Abercrombie

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

As Napoleon Hill said, necessity may be the mother of invention but it is also the father of crime. — S. Hussain Zaidi

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

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

My father is Indonesian Timorese, my mother Aboriginal Australian. — Jessica Mauboy

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

My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife. — George Akerlof

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus ... I rhyme. — Saul Williams

One, you moved here with your father, which means your a daddy's girl. No girl leaves their mother unless they are. — Holly Hood

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

Hurt me to see the pain across my mothers face, every time my father's fist would put her in her place. — Christina Aguilera

I'm nothing, I'm everything,' he declared. 'The street is my mother. The sun is my father. What more should I ask of life? — Alain Mabanckou

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

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 loved my mother and father. — Roger Moore

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

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

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

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

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

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. — T. Boone Pickens

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

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

Being a father or a mother is not only a great challenge, it is a divine calling. It is an effort requiring consecration. — James E. Faust

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 mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker. — Alan Sugar

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

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. — Carlos Slim

Dooku chose his next words carefully. "Qui-Gon returned from Tatooine with a former slave boy. According to the boy's mother, the boy had no father. — James Luceno

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

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

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

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

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

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 wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father. — Halldor Laxness

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 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. — H.G.Wells

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

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. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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 pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.' — Action Bronson

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

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

Healers. My father got to know my mother because on his hunts he would sometimes collect medicinal — Suzanne Collins

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

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

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

If my father was the head of our house, my mother was its heart. — Irving Pichel

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

But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father. — Ogden Nash

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

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

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

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

Real Womanhood isn't a function of becoming a great mother, but of being loved by your Great Father. — Ann Voskamp

Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock

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

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

Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment. — Zig Ziglar

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

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

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

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

Rich father, rich mother, rich husband. I'm sure her whole life she's never known what it's like to worry about money." Licking — Imbolo Mbue

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. — John Major

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. — Peter Fonda

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

Don't talk to me like that! I am your mother! Oh, God the Father, I have raised a monster! — Carlos Malvar

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

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

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. — Guy Pearce

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

Your daughter's coming of age, you ought to let her see the world a little. — Susumu Katsumata

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

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast. — Angela Carter