Top 1200 Father Mother Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

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.

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

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

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

No mother, or father, should despair over whether or not they can afford - or access - the health care their child needs.

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

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.

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

The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.

In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born.

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

I was born to a Hindu father and Muslim mother on Christmas day. You can't get more secular than that.

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

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.

I am lucky I have him. After my parents passed away, Boneyji has been my father, mother, and husband.

My father was a racing driver, his name is Don Halliday. I grew up with it all around me. I have always been into fast, dangerous sports, even as a child. As soon as I got in a car I knew it was for me and that I would enjoy racing and competing. My mother was also involved in Solo One. She always said I was like my father and would want to compete one day.

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

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

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

To be a father is not simply to bring a child into this world. It is to take care of that child and to give him direction and guidance. It's my mother who always did this for me. I'm surprised that today, because of the World Cup and because the cameras are on my father, that he puts on that jersey and speaks of his son. It's not going to change things because of a World Cup.

I remember seeing my father shaving my mother's head in the bathroom after her chemo treatments; It was so traumatizing.

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

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

The photo shoots were not easy. I cried and refused to do anything that would shame my mother and father.

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.

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

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

My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop in Dundee giving a lot of people tick. When he died, a lot of people hadn't paid their bills, so he died with a lot of debt. After he died, my mother went doolally.

In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said. I smiled. "What?" I said, "I was just thinking of your father.

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

Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness, then." "Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day." "Not in the history books," said Valentine. "Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father.

I grew up in Carol City, Zone 3, for 19 years, in a house with four brothers, a mother and a father.

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

While my mother is from Jammu, my father was originally from Afghanistan, as my grandfather was the governor of five provinces there, including Herat.

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

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

When my father finished his Ph.D., my mother went back for another bachelor's degree, this time in environmental science.

Until I was two, my mother supplemented her welfare payments by cleaning houses and waitressing. My father didn't help.

My mother is a lawyer by profession. Now she has shifted with me in Bombay. I lost my father a long back.

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

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.

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

I'm a black man who grew up in America. I'm a father of four children. They don't all have the same mother. I own a business.

My father and mother were not that compatible. I don't think they had a good wedding night, and I was the product of that. We weren't close.

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

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

The situation was kind of complicated in that my mother didn't speak Spanish. My father spoke English, you know, as best he could.

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

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.

My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher education in New York City and graduated in 1914 from the New York University School of Dentistry. My mother came at the age of 14 from a part of Russia which, after the war, became Poland; she was only 19 when she was married to my father.

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

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.

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

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

My father was incredible: a longshoreman; my mother was a secretary. Very 'go to work' people. That's how I saw things.

We are a multicultural family. My mother is Hindu, my father Muslim. We celebrate every festival, be it Diwali or Eid.

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

We were four kids and my father and mother brought us up with very strong values. We weren't spoilt at all.

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.

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