Best father & mother Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 8

“My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.”

Mother Father Growing Up Growing Paper Locals Engineers Columns Electrical Pittsburgh

Author:Jason Kilar

“The center of life is female - we all come from our mothers. I've always drawn women or female spirits. I feel deeply about this - who gives a damn about some guy on a cross? My mother's creativity was smothered after she married and raised a family, but she was supportive of me - even my father expected me to carry on in her footsteps. I prefer to have no kids but lots of animals.”

Giving Feels Kids Life Is Spirit Mother Guy Father Animal Creativity Married Female Crosses Raised Expected Damn Supportive Footsteps

Author:Vali Myers

“Every human being is a universe within themselves. Your mother and father participated with God to create a soul who would never cease to exist. Your parents, as co-creators, supplied the stuff, genetics and more, uniquely combined to form a masterpiece, not flawless but still astounding; and we took from their hands what they brought to us, submitting to their timing and history and added what only we could bring to them -- life. You were conceived, a living wonder who exploded into being.”

Humans Stills Soul Hands Form Mother Universe Father Stuff Parent Human Beings Wonder Creator Cease Timing Masterpiece Genetics Mother And Father Flawless

Author:William P. Young

“That myth--that image of the madonna-mother--has disabled us from knowing that, just as men are more than fathers, women are morethan mothers. It has kept us from hearing their voices when they try to tell us their aspirations . . . kept us from believing that they share with men the desire for achievement, mastery, competence--the desire to do something for themselves.”

Men Trying Believe Mother Desire Father Voice Knowing Share Achievement Hearing Myth Aspiration Mastery Competence Disabled

Author:Lillian B. Rubin

“Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained by thechildren's imminent or actual departure--fathers who want to hold back the clock, to keep the children in the home for just a little longer. Repeatedly women compare their own relief to their husband's distress”

Want May Children Littles Problem Home Mother Father Husband Empty Contrary Compare Clock Relief Distress Nests Departure Empty Nest

Book:Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self

Source: Women of a certain age: the midlife search for self

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

Children Mother Father Education Responsibility Learning Groups Mankind Educational Agency

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Father, mother, child, are the human trinity, whose substance must not be divided nor its persons confounded. As well reconstruct your granite out of the grains it is disintegrated into as society out of the dissolution of wedded love.”

Humans Wells Children Persons Mother Father Substance Divided Grain Trinity Dissolution Granite Domesticity Mother Child Father Mother

Author:C. A. Bartol

“The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.”

Men States Mother Father Interest He Man Discipline Deeds Deny Severe Totalitarianism Totality

Author:H. G. Wells

“In an ideal society, mothers and fathers would produce potty- trained, civilized, responsible new citizens while government and corporate leaders would provide a safe, healthy, economically just community.”

Government Mother Father Community Leader Produce Citizens Healthy Safe Ideals Responsible Corporate Civilized Mother And Father Potty Ideal Society

Book:American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

Source: American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

“When trouble comes no mother should have to plead guilty alone. The pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, goat herders, fathers, and peer groups should all be called to the bench as well. . . .”

Should Wells Mother Father Trouble Groups Should Have Guilty Peers Psychologist Benches Therapists Goats Peer Group Pediatrician

Book:American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

Source: American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

“Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over the rolling waters go, Come from the dying moon, and blow, Blow him again to me; While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps. Sleep and rest, sleep and rest, Father will come to thee soon; Rest, rest, on mother's breast, Father will come to thee soon; Father will come to his babe in the nest, Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon: Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.”

Littles Mother Father Water Sleep Sea Dying Sweet Wind Moon Lows West Western Blow Breathe Thee Breasts Silver Rolling Sail Nests Babe

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.”

“my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about how it was a privilege and if only he could”

Ifs Used Mother Dies Courses Father Talking Dying Bravery Privilege Etcetera

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“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.”

Children Play Mother Actors Father Process Born Roles Creative Creative Process Pregnant

Author:Constantin Stanislavski

“My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.”

Two Mother Father Hours Journey Travel Nine Forty Ohio Two Days Wagons Vermont

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attributes and characteristics of mothers and teachers and gives them the ultimate responsibility for the child's life chances.”

Source: Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools

“The adolescent does not develop her identity and individuality by moving outside her family. She is not triggered by some magic unconscious dynamic whereby she rejects her family in favour of her peers or of a larger society.... She continues to develop in relation to her parents. Her mother continues to have more influence over her than either her father or her friends.”

Doe Moving Mother Father Parent Magic Influence Identity Relation Individuality Unconscious Rejects Adolescence Peers Favour Moving Out

Author:Terri E Apter

“Parenting can be established as a time-share job, but mothers are less good "switching off" their parent identity and turning to something else. Many women envy the father's ability to set clear boundaries between home and work, between being an on-duty and an off-duty parent.... Women work very hard to maintain a closeness to their child. Father's value intimacy with a child, but often do not know how to work to maintain it.”

Knows Children Hard Home Jobs Mother Values Father Parent Ability Know How Clear Share Identity Duty Envy Boundaries Intimacy Closeness Switching Switching Off

Author:Terri E Apter

“In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals.... The familybecame a special protected place, the repository of tender, pure, and generous feelings (embodied by the mother) and a bulwark and bastion against the raw, competitive, aggressive, and selfish world of commerce (embodied by the father).... In performing this protective task, the good family was to be as self-sufficient as the good man.”

“Every time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father”

Looks Mother Girl Father Cooks

Author:Tony Randall

“This is the essence of Kingdom Authority. Fathers can have no authority in the home until they have surrendered to the headship of Jesus. Mothers cannot pray with authority for their children when they have no submissive spirit to their own husbands. Pastors cannot lead, teach, or preach with anointing and supernatural power without being fully broken and surrendered to the lordship of Christ, the authority of the Word, and the commands of the Spirit.”

Source: The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld

“My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.”

People Mean Children Helping School Mother Father Voice Study Towns Financial Fantastic Dozen Opera Devoted Mum Helping People Scholarship Programmes Great Voice

Author:Salma Hayek

“Mama wrote a letter to my father saying' I want to work with you' and she ended the letter saying' in Italian I can only say ti amo( I love you)' and of course the press used that to say women are sexual predators, in 1949 they made a first film together,' Stromboli', and they fell in love and my mother became pregnant with my brother Roberto before she could obtain a divorce.”

Want Love Firsts Made I Can Together Film Used Mother Courses Father Love You Brother Letters Presses Divorce My Brother Italian Pregnant Mama Predator

Author:Isabella Rossellini

“Oh northern mothers wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated woe which is so soon to follow, would that Christ would teach my soul a prayer that would plead to the Father for grace sufficient for you, God pity and strengthen you every one.”

Soul Mother Father Heaven Christ Hours Prayer Teach Grace Wife Bears Pity My Soul Sufficient Unconscious Woe

Author:Clara Barton

“I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.”

Children Mother Three Father Jesus Christ Students Brother Jesus Christ God Love Pet True Friend Brother Sister I Love God

Author:Ana Monnar

“I desire before I leave the world, as my best legacy to my family,, my serious, solemn advice, to make choice of my God for their God. He has been my father's God, and the God of your Mother's predecessors. I solemnly charge you to make it your first care to seek after peace with God, and being reconciled, to make it your study to please God in all things.”

World Firsts Has Beens War Care Mother Desire Choices Father Study Advice Serious Please All Things My Family Legacy Solemn Predecessors Peace With God

Author:Robert Dabney

“When guys come over to date my daughter, I'm going to tell them, 'I want you to go out and have a very good time with my daughter. I want you to enjoy yourself and have her home on time. If you abuse her in any way, I'm going to kill your mother and father, cut your back open, pull out your spine, and leave you in a wheelchair so you can think about what you did for the rest of your life. Now, go out and have a good time!'”

“I'm the son of a pastor and evangelist and I've described many times how my father, when I was a child, was an alcoholic. He was not a Christian. And my father left my mother and left me when I was just three years old. And someone invited him to Clay Road Baptist Church. And he gave his heart to Jesus and it turned him around. And he got on a plane and he flew back to my mother and me.”

Years Heart Children Christian Mother Three Father Jesus Left Church Son Planes Three Years Pastor Invited Clay Alcoholics Flew Baptists Evangelists Three Year Olds

Author:Ted Cruz

“My father was a mailman. His father was a coal miner. My mother's mother could barely speak English. And their son today stands on this podium in the great state of Ohio not only as the governor, but a candidate for president of the United States.I do believe in miracles.I've had a lot of elections. But my elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement.A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind.”

“My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins.”

Kind Mother Night Father Sides Dinner Sunday Italian Cousin My Cousin Sunday Night

Author:Lea Michele

“I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid.”

Kids Mother Father Felt Dangerous Football Quiet Opposites Baseball Profession Boxers Mother And Father

Author:Sugar Ray Leonard

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

Thinking Should Children Reason Mother Father Married Should Have Balanced

Author:Cicely Tyson

“I think, though, the biggest heroes in my life would have been both my mother and father. My father because he was very brave and a kid from the Depression. And my mother, a child from the Depression too, who always remained so lovely her whole life.”

Thinking Children Has Beens Whole Kids Mother Father Hero Brave Whole Life Lovely Mother And Father

Author:Susan Stroman

“Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.”

Needs Care Mother Father Careers Taken Baby Motherhood Memorable

Author:Amy Heckerling

“Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.”

Ifs Men Wanted Mother Father Shopping

Author:Jack Kirby

“I embrace the criticism, because ultimately (it means) the masses have seen it [my movie]. I embrace it for my father's story, for my mother's story, for my auntie, for my grandmother, who all got their teeth knocked out so I could be [where I am].”

Mean Stories Mother Father Mass Criticism Embrace Teeth Grandmother My Grandmother Auntie

Author:Lee Daniels

“Disney cartoons are all rated G. It's really funny. There are kids all over the world who still have complexes over Bambi's father getting shot by the hunter and Bambi's mother getting crisped. But that's the way it's always been. This is the sort of material that appeals to kids. Kids understand it instinctively. They grip it.”

World Way Stills Kids Mother Father Materials Shots Complexes Appeals Cartoon Hunters Disney Cartoon

Book:Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

Source: Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King

“My sense of humor was a tool for me getting past my mother and father separating, my older brother having cerebral palsy, and the bullies in the schoolyard. I had to make them laugh to keep them off my ass. I brought that to my professional career.”

Past Mother Father Careers Laughing Brother Tools Ass Sense Of Humor Bully Mother And Father Separating Cerebral Older Brother Professional Career Cerebral Palsy

Author:Tracy Morgan

“When I was little, I wanted to be a mother, because that's who I saw. I saw my mom caring for me. I didn't play doctor. I didn't play lawyer. I didn't have those visions until I was in college, meeting people who were doing those things. That's why we're trying to encourage moms, teachers, fathers, to be that presence in their children's lives, in their communities, because it really makes a difference.”

People Trying Children Littles Play Wanted Mother Father Community Differences Vision Saws Teacher College Mom Doctors Meetings My Mom Caring Lawyer Making A Difference Being A Father

Author:Michelle Obama

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