Top 1200 Father Mother Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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.

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.

My mother was Catholic, my father not. I went to Catholic high school. Every form of education failed me. I was trouble.

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.

I come from a family of eight on public assistance, my parents were separated. My mother struggled, my father struggled.

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.

I am as much British, white and working class, my mother's background, as I am black and Nigerian, my father's heritage.

I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'

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

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.

My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.

As my mother is a Kerala Brahmin and my father a Kerala Nair, every day in the house is like a religious festival.

My mother was born on February 8, 1944, in Lucknow, India. Her father, Albert, was half-Indian and half-Portuguese.

I look like my mother but behave like my father.

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.

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

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.

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.

My father's passing comes with sorrow and grief for me, for my mother, for my brothers, and for my sisters. He was a great fire who burned bright, and we lived in his light and warmth for so very long.

It was tough for my family. My father was working; my mother was working. Sometimes I was alone at home after leaving school.

Someday I will get married, and I should be able to watch my films with my children, mother-in-law, and father-in-law.

My father was very abusive, and it was hard for my mother at first to leave because we had depended on him for so long. Sometimes you kind of get adjusted to getting that beating.

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

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

I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.

I lost my father when I was a kid, so we were close unit; my sister and mother - obviously, I'm very close to them.

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

I grew up mainly with my mother, and I would see my father from time to time. But I didn't have a constant male figure.

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

My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a fever, she had defied the doctors and gone right on talking.

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

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

My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.

My father is a cultural anthropologist and my mother ran an outpatient clinic and treated a lot of people who had been institutionalised. I was very fascinated with behaviour and criminology and why people do things that don't make any sense. I would probe my mother: "Why? Why would somebody do this?" And look for some causality between someone's mental state and their behaviour. I think it had a lot of influence on me.

Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.

I really ran away in 1951 from South Africa, where I lived with my mother and father - who was a doctor - to come back to England to find myself, then hide what I found.

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.

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

I have my sister, my uncle, and that's it. I don't talk to my mother, I don't talk to my father.

My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan.

My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.

I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

There is no difference between the worry of a human mother and an animal mother for their offspring. A mother's love does not derive from the intellect but from the emotions, in animals just as in humans.

My mum's father was a producer and her mother was an actress, so my mum was fully behind me going into acting.

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

My mother and father were lovely parents, always quite hard up, but very hard-working.

A lot of people say that Eleanor Roosevelt wasn't a good mother. And there are two pieces to that story. One is, when they were very young, she was not a good mother. She was an unhappy mother. She was an unhappy wife. She had never known what it was to be a good mother. She didn't have a good mother of her own. And so there's a kind of parenting that doesn't happen.

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.

Father's Day just be Mother's Day the sequel.

I wanted a relationship like the one my mother and father had. It wasn't perfect; they had to work on it. But there was an unbelievable mutual respect.

My mother was a consulting dietician, and my father was a consulting engineer.

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

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

I can't even give my father a proper gift. Every single Father's Day means so much to me. I'm so close to him. He's my big brother, but also my father.

My father was a pastor, my mother was the quintessential pastor's wife.

My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.

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

I don't know if a mother's love and a father's love is that different.

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

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