Top 1200 Father Mother Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

I didn't grow up around my father. I didn't really grow up around my mother, either. I was raised by a community of people. Spiritually speaking, my father is in Heaven, and that is who I look to for all my answers. And that's why my faith is very strong and why my passion is strong.

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

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

I hate pants. This is something I have inherited from my father. He despised pants, and my mother was never allowed to wear them at home. We're talking about a different time period now, when the man was much more the ruler of the house. But I still feel that way, and neither my mother nor Maria is allowed to go out with me in pants.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say 'housewife'? A home engineer.

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

Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still voice said: Does that makes him the devil? He is still someone's Father, his name has been changed, but his story is the same. Why hate when we should Celebrate. In this world of two's, you got the Mourning Son, and the Daughter of the Night. They both equal light once you make it through the night. Now, wake the funk up!

My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.

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

My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born.

I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father's case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.

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

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

My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us.

My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.

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

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

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

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

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

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were drowned in the deepest sea, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose tears would come down to me, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!

Even though my parents separated, my mother was in love with my father and never re-married.

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

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.

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

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

My house is full of paintings by my mother Pam. She was a fantastic, prolific artist but had no confidence in herself, thanks to my father running her down. They married during the war when she was 19 - she had planned to go to art school. But my father didn't want her to work, so she became a housewife.

When you lose a mother or father, it's still the hardest time of your life.

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

Obviously Gwilym is a very Welsh name! My father is from Maesteg, and my mother's from Abergavenny.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I come from a family of storytellers. Growing up, my father would make up these stories about how he and my mother met and fell in love, and my mother would tell me these elaborately visual stories of growing up as a kid in New York, and I was always so enrapt.

Stephanie,' Valerie said. 'She's going to have a baby, and she's getting married.' My father was confused. He looked around the room. No Joe. No Ranger. His eyes locked on Diesel. 'Not the psycho,' he said. Diesel blew out a sigh. My father turned to my mother. 'Get me the carving knife. Make sure it's sharp.

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

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.

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

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

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

My mother and father have always drilled in to me that work is very important.

Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.

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

God Bless my mother and father for all the hard work they've done for our family.

I was born in a small town. My parents, my father was a teacher. My mother was a housewife.

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

My mother is Lithuanian Australian, and my father was born in Singapore, but he is Pakistani / Saudi Arabian.

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

The father-mother family with two children isolated in a city flat is already insufficient.