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“I always knew I wanted to be a performer, and my mother started taking me to dance classes when I was five. My mother is a teacher, my father works at an insurance company. When I said I wanted to be a performer, people went, "Yeah, right." You don't do that where I come from.”

People Said Wanted Mother Father Company Class Five Teacher Yeah Performers Insurance Companies Dance Class

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources. That you be willing to pay Black people reparations for our years and years of service in this country. That you be willing to go home and tell your white mother and father about white racism and how it affects and kills Black people in our communities. That's my definition of good white people, and I haven't met any like that.”

“The idea of feminine authority is so deeply embedded in the human subconscious that even after all these centuries of father-right the young child instinctively regards the mother as the supreme authority. He looks upon the father as equal with himself, equally subject to the woman's rule. Children have to be taught to love, honor, and respect the father, a task usually assumed by the mother.”

“My mother and grandmothers could never have lived my life; my father and my grandfathers could never have imagined it. But they bestowed on me the promise of America, which made my life and my choices possible.”

Made America Mother Choices Father Promise Grandmother Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:Hillary Clinton

“The deer aren't our prey or our possessions -- they're us. They're us at one point in the cycle of life and we're them at another point in the cycle. The deer are twice your parents, for your mother and father are deer, and the deer that gave you its life today was mother and father to you as well, since you wouldn't be here if it weren't for that deer.”

Ifs Wells Today Mother Father Parent Possession Cycles Prey Deer Mother And Father Cycle Of Life

Author:Daniel Quinn

“My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.”

War Mother Artist Father Mets Chinese Paris Bombs Axes Smuggling Provence Trapeze Cadets Trapeze Artists

Author:Colin Meloy

“Loving your homeland is just as natural as loving your father or mother - after all, your country nourishes you, protects you, and in many ways makes you who you are. Just as it's a virtue to honor your parents, it's a good and admirable thing to honor the land you call home.”

Way Country Home Mother Father Parent Natural Virtue Land Honor Protect Who You Are Homeland Admirable Loving You Protect You

Book:The American Patriot's Almanac: Daily Readings on America

Source: The American Patriot's Almanac: Daily Readings on America

“A choir of angels glorified the hour, the vault of heaven was dissolved in fire. "Father, why hast Thou forsaken me? Mother, I beg you, do not weep for me.”

Mother Father Heaven Hours Fire Angel Choir Forsaken Vaults

Book:Избранные Стихи

Source: Избранные Стихи

“Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - ''possessive'', even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his fetus, but you know his corpse. Only you can complete the story of his life, only you know why his body has to be pushed into the fire before its time, and why his toes curl up and fight for another hour on earth.”

Knows Men Feels Facts Stories Body Earth Mother Fighting Father Hours Fire Strange Murder Responsible Toes Corpses Curls Possessive Fetus

Author:Aravind Adiga

“On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.”

Mother Father Sides Polish Scottish Puffins

Author:Tamsin Greig

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

World Firsts War Mother Fighting Father Males Patterns Tendencies War Of The Worlds First World War Baldness

Author:Jeremy Hardy

“No mother, no father, no Sight.”

Mother Father Sight

Book:Sabriel

Source: Sabriel

“I didn't know at first that there were two languages in Canada.I just thought that there was one way to speak to my father and another to talk to my mother.”

Knows Way Firsts Two Mother Father Speak Language One Way Canada

Author:Louis St. Laurent

“I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I went to prison. Too many have suffered for the love of freedom. I owe it to their widows, to their orphans, to their mothers and their fathers, who have grieved and wept for them ..... Not only have I suffered during these long lonely wasted years. I am no less life-loving than you are. But I cannot sell the birthright of the people to be free ....... Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.”

Source: Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches

“I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.”

Men School Young Mother Culture Father Language Secret College Mets Young Man Fascinated Graduates Businessman Tokyo Graduate School Geisha

Author:Arthur Golden

“Kuwait is the mother and father, Earth and it's supplies. She is the past, present and future.”

Earth Past Mother Father Supplies Mother And Father Past Present Past Present And Future Kuwait

Author:Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

“We are all the siblings of Kuwait. She is the mother and the father, and we are the shield that protects her from her enemies”

Mother Father Enemy Protect Shields Sibling Kuwait

Author:Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah

“I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a complete liberal, interested in woman's liberation before it was the fashion.”

Way Mother Father Fashion Opposites Liberation Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unfortunately, in self-discovery, you get the culty types who want the father figure or mother figure to tell them everything to do. They don't want to do any work. They want to hang on your energy and try to drain it.”

Want Trying Self Mother Father Energy Figures Buddhism Type Discovery Self Discovery Rama Drains Father Figure

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?”

Mother Father Appreciate Distance Parenting Expected Criticize Hook Appreciated Our Father Long Distance Closeness

Book:At Large

Source: At Large

“I've inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father's hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have everything bad that he had. Then I have my mother's surly, pill-like, complaining, whining attitude.”

Mother Father Parent Attitude Worst Complaining Concentration Pills Whining Surly Amorality

Author:Woody Allen

“I was very dedicated and serious about fighting. I'd read about all the fighters. I found out where they came from, knew about their mothers and their fathers . . . I just read all about their lives, their training.”

Mother Fighting Found Father Serious Training Fighter Dedicated

Author:Mike Tyson

“There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There's something incredibly heroic about that.”

Children Hard Life Is Mother Father Opportunity Knowing Noble Heroic

Author:Kevin Costner

“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.”

Important Real Home Mother Father Path Blessed

Author:Chris Paul

“We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.”

Ifs Men Writing Book Lying Mother Father Names Brother Praying Opposites Lust Denied Brutal Savages I Pray Maidens If There Is A God

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“As a newborn baby breathes and cries, so the signs of life in a newborn Christian are faith and repentance, inhaling the love of God and exhaling an initial cry of distress. And at that point what God provides, exactly as for a newborn infant, is the comfort, protection, and nurturing promise of a mother. "If God is our father, the church is our mother." The words are those of the Swiss Reformer John Calvin ... it is as impossible, unnecessary, and undesirable to be a Christian all by yourself as it is to be a newborn baby all by yourself.”

“My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.”

Lasts Mother Father Names Born Half Raised Chinese Greek Germany Hawaii Filipino

Author:Mark Dacascos

“My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother.”

Home Mother Father Newspapers Attorney Stay At Home Columnists Syracuse

Author:Siobhan Fallon Hogan

“My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.”

Mother Father Parent Rights Movement Students Workers Active Civil Rights Secretary Committees Civil Rights Movement Panthers Coordinating Sncc

Author:Yaya DaCosta

“I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world. I know all mothers and fathers feel that way.”

Knows World Way Feels Littles Beautiful Mother Father Known Wonderful Lucky Creatures Romantic Love Mother And Father Beautiful Creatures

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“May I say to mothers collectively, in the name of the Lord, you are magnificent. You are doing terrifically well. The very fact that you have been given such a responsibility is everlasting evidence of the trust your Father in Heaven has in you.”

Wells May Has Beens Facts Mother Father Names Given Heaven Responsibility Lord Evidence Magnificent Everlasting Father In Heaven

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“My father has been the real anchor of the family. Hes the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.”

Has Beens Real Mother Father Brother My Brother Anchors

Author:Yvette Clarke

“Both my mothers family and my fathers family go back almost a hundred years in the district. I was born in the district, raised in the district, raised my family in the district. And so thats the way I see myself.”

Way Years Mother Father Born Hundred My Family Raised

Author:Ann Kirkpatrick

“My father... very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother continue with always appreciating and always giving back. It's something I hope that I've become a role model for my children.”

Men Giving Children Mother Father Roles Models Appreciate My Children Generous Role Models Giving Back Sibling Charitable Philanthropic My Siblings

Author:Steve Tisch

“If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.”

Ifs Sometimes Facts Law Mother Father Son Appearance Sentimental Destined In-laws Courtship Sulky Son-in-law

Book:The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

Source: The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

“A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.”

Mind Hands Age Joy Mother Father

Book:THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS

Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS

“The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.”

Kind Art Mother Father Fine Genius Art Is Intellect Luxury Former Latter Fine Arts

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility. I have listened to many women in various countries, and I have never found a woman who willingly 'mothers' her husband. The very idea is repulsive to her. She wants to mother the children while they are young, but never their fathers. True, she may be forced into the role of mother by a man's weaknesses and childishness, and then she accepts the role with dignity and patience, or with anger and impatience, but always with a secret, profound sadness unexpressed and inexpressible.”

“While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.”

People Needs Humans I Can Mother Father Birth Universal Constant I Realized Analyzing Human Needs Immaturity

Author:Anais Nin

“Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house.”

Thinking Remember Death Mother Father House Rooms Our Father Think Of You Departed

Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.”

Writing Firsts Children Age Mother Father Alive Poet Eight Mother And Father Pissed Off Odes Dead Mother

Author:Judith Viorst

“It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I was a child, I went to school with and heard the stories of Mexicans, Italians, and Greeks, and I listened. I remember their language, and a lot of it is marvelous. But when I think of things my mother or father or aunts used to say, it seems the most absolutely striking thing in the world.”

People Thinking World Children Has Beens Stories Seems School Remember Used Mother Father Language Black Grace Heard Greek Black People Marvelous Aunt Ohio

Author:Toni Morrison

“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.”

“A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.”

May Children Mother Turns Father Endure My Mom Sister Mother Love Mother's Love Mother And Child Mother Proverbs Love For My Mother Mom And Child Love My Mom

Author:Washington Irving

“it is not only unfair but disgustingly cruel that the mother is always held responsible for the illegitimate child, while the father goes scot-free.”

Children Mother Father Responsible Unfair Scots Illegitimate Child

Author:Dale Evans

“Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.”

Children Mother Father Parent Natural Study Sweet Cherish Housekeeping

Book:Eight Cousins & Rose in Bloom - A Sequel (Children’s Classic): A Story of Rose Campbell

Source: Eight Cousins & Rose in Bloom - A Sequel (Children’s Classic): A Story of Rose Campbell

“Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?”

Should Wells God Mother Father Heaven Praying Our Father

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear, In strength and health for many a year; And O! preserve my father too, And may I pay him reverence due; And may I my best thoughts employ To be my parents' hope and joy; And O! preserve my brothers both From evil doings, and from sloth, And may we always love each other, Our friends, our father, and our mother, And still, O Lord, to me impart An innocent and grateful heart, That after my last sleep I may Awake to thy eternal day! Amen.”

Source: The Poetical Works of Samuel T. Coleridge

“How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.”

People Knows Hands Mother Father Emotion Attitude Painting Son Daughter Abstract Intricate Son And Daughter Polaroids

Book:At Large

Source: At Large

“I was born in the Year 1632, in the City of York, of a good Family, tho' not of that Country, my Father being a Foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull; He got a good Estate by Merchandise, and leaving off his Trade, lived afterward at York, from whence he had married my Mother, whose Relations were named Robinson, a very good Family in that Country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but by the usual Corruption of Words in England, we are now called, nay we call ourselves, and write our Name Crusoe, and so my Companions always call'd me.”

Source: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque, Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished But Himself with an Account how He was at Last as Strangely Deliver'd by Pyrates, Written by Himself