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“My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.”

World States Mother Father Policy Regard Affair Aids Branches Department Economist World Affairs

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.”

Children Mother Father Parent Gratitude Our Children Bills Debt Grandparent Friday Mother And Father Happy Friday Debt Of Gratitude

Author:Nancy Friday

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

Mother Father House Heard Yiddish

Author:Joseph H. Greenberg

“I remember hearing stories from my mother and father about their parents and grandparents when they were taken off the reservation, taken to the boarding schools, and pretty much taught to be ashamed of who they were as Native Americans. You can feel that impact today.”

Feels Stories Today School Remember Mother Father Parent Taken Taught Impact Hearing Ashamed Native Native American Grandparent Mother And Father Reservations Parents And Grandparents

Author:Chaske Spencer

“But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.”

Children Has Beens Mother Father

Book:The bad parents' garden of verse

Source: The bad parents' garden of verse

“I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.”

Trying Littles Mother Father Grew Grew Up Died Busy Open Minded Father Died My Father Died

Author:Sonia Braga

“Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.”

Mother Father Taken Died Ill Mary

Author:Desmond Dekker

“My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.”

Believe Seems Mother Father House I Believe Memories Groups Arms Walking Garden Orchard Memory Of My Father

Author:Immanuel Velikovsky

“The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.”

Source: Robert Frost on writing

“You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.”

Source: Robert Frost on writing

“I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.”

“I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother.”

“If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?”

“My mother - both my mother and father had very successful careers. My mother's an English professor and my father is a scientist and physician. They worked at the same jobs for their entire life, 50 years each.”

Years Jobs Mother Father Careers Successful Scientist Professors Physicians Mother And Father Successful Career

Author:David Plotz

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

Men Should Looks Two Mother Father Hours Died Merry Father Died My Father Died

Book:Hamlet: Revised Edition

Source: Hamlet: Revised Edition

“I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother.”

Knows Said Humor Funny Mother Father Birth Easier Hundred Dollars Father Son

Author:Rita Rudner

“I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.”

Thinking Wells Children Mother Father Sin Virtue Written

Author:Charles Dickens

“Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee.”

Stills Mother Father Thee Brethren Matrimony Father Mother Hector

Book:The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions

Source: The Iliad of Homer: Several Versions

“Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick”

“Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.”

Way Wanted Mother Father Mama

Author:Lillian Hellman

“Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.”

Firsts Kind Mother Father Heaven Christ Born Steps Seeing Despair Saved Holiness First Steps Born Again Father Mother

Book:The saints everlasting rest: or, a treatise of the blessed state of the saints, in their enjoyment of God in glory

Source: The saints everlasting rest: or, a treatise of the blessed state of the saints, in their enjoyment of God in glory

“Father calls me William, sister calls me Will, Mother calls me Willie, but the fellows call me Bill!.”

Mother Father Names Fellows Bills Call Me

Author:Eugene Field

“Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.”

Thinking Way May Children Has Beens Seems Would Be Mother Father Family Boys Too Much Expecting Inadequate Mother Love Unloved

Author:Frank Pittman

“Women are concerned about the purity and welfare of the community. ? While the father's love was related to mundane desires, the mother's love was related to spiritual concerns.”

Spiritual Mother Desire Father Community Concern Concerned Welfare Related Purity Mundane Mother's Love

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“I had whooping cough when I was very young, which left me with bronchial problems, and I would always pick up colds. I was very thin and nervous so my father and mother took me out of school and had me tutored at home.”

Problem Home School Young Mother Father Left Health Picks Nervous Whooping Cough

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemetery.”

Mother Father Lost Five Ninety Cemetery Poland

Author:Simon Wiesenthal

“My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes - - eyes that had not opened for many, many days - - and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.”

Knows Moments Eye Lasts Mother Father Saws Arms Disease Stealing Conquer His Eyes Alzheimer Alzheimer's Never Fear

Author:Patti Davis

“And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.”

Helping Mother Father Equal Importance Equations

Author:Malik Yoba

“If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.”

Ifs Mother Father Poverty Crime Stupidity

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good Queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis, her son: witness her oft-repeated words, "My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin;" words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind, and strengthen him in treading God's ways.”

Way Should Mind Heart Children Said Reason Use Pain Mother Dies Father Sin Son Guilty Witness Mortals Queens My Son Monarchs Treading Mortal Sin Blanche

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.”

Ifs Running Mother Courses Father Born Blood Mets Diversity Raised Folks Track Boat Indian Territory Ancestor Mother And Father Born And Raised Right Track Cherokee Mayflower

Author:Will Rogers

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

Mother Father Duty Navy Absent Naval

Author:John James Audubon

“Who can justly say aught against Joseph Smith? I was as well acquainted with him, as any man. I do not believe that his father and mother knew him any better than I did. I do not think that a man lives on the earth that knew him any better than I did; and I am bold to say that, Jesus Christ excepted, no better man ever lived or does live upon this earth. I am his witness”

Thinking Men Believe Wells Doe Earth Mother Father Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Witness Better Man Joseph Smith

Author:Brigham Young

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

Wanted Moving Mother Father Careers Parenting Supportive Mother And Father Firefighter

Author:James Gandolfini

“With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying train of Life, fly backward far and fast The milestones of the fathers, the landmarks of the past. But human hearts remain unchanged: the sorrow and the sin, The loves and hopes and fears of old, are to our own akin; And if, in tales our fathers told, the songs our mothers sung, Tradition wears a snowy beard, Romance is always young.”

Source: Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier

“My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.”

School Mother Father Teacher Grades School Teachers Grades In School Eighth Grade

Author:Gordon Bell

“Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.”

Humans Children Young Mother Father Nature Blood Taxes Cradle Babe

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

“We are the higher synthesis of the union of the archetypal Mother and Father. As we recognize the divinity within ourselves, we see it in each other and all around us. Through this realization, the world becomes sacred again, infused with intelligence, spirit, and a grand plan for evolutionary awakening.”

World Inspirational Spirit Mother Father Plans Higher Sacred Unions Awakening Realization Divinity Mother And Father Synthesis

Author:Anodea Judith

“Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you.”

Mother Father Women

Author:Laura Schlessinger

“Be it Valentine's Day, Father's Day or Mother's Day, I feel all days are reminders of some feelings. February 14 doesn't hold any special relevance for me.”

Feels Feelings Mother Father Special Valentine Reminders Valentine's Day Mothers Day Relevance February

Author:Randeep Hooda

“Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.”

Should Littles Made Stills Mother Father Parent Half Generations Example Mom Dad Terrible Feminist Dinner Cooks Splits Household Chores Mom And Dad Household Chores

Author:Emily Oster

“I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.”

“When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.”

Enough Mother Father Easy Brother Bread

Book:Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes

Source: Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes

“My mother was into opera and my father was into jazz, so there was a lot of jazz in the house where I grew up.”

Mother Father House Grew Grew Up Jazz Opera

Author:Chaka Khan

“My father was everything to me. Unlike my mother - I didn't have a special affinity with her.”

Mother Father Special Affinity

Author:Giovanna Cau

“The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.”

States Mother Father United United States Economy Paid Parental

Author:Brigid Schulte

“But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are spending more time doing child care and housework, and still working long hours. That work-life conflict is weighing on everybody.”

Children Long Stills Home Care Kids Mother Father Hours Conflict Responsible Majority Spending More Time Housework Weighing Long Hours Child Care Working Long Hours

Author:Brigid Schulte

“My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.”

Littles Shows Used Mother Song Father House Stuff Rocks Dad Musician Instruments My Dad Singers Latin Rock And Roll Brooklyn

Author:Bruno Mars

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