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“A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.”

“Freedom is on the march in this world. I believe everybody in the Middle East desires to live in freedom. I believe women in the Middle East want to live in a free society. I believe mothers and fathers want to raise their children in a free and peaceful world. I believe all these things, because freedom is not America's gift to the world, freedom is the almighty God's gift to each man and woman in this world.”

“In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look at the budget, they might find they don't both need to. ... What happened in America so that mothers and fathers who leave their children in the care of someone else - or worse yet, home alone after school between three and six in the afternoon - find themselves more affirmed by society? Here, we can thank the influence of radical feminism.”

“You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.”

People Children Mother Father Journey Fellows Mother And Father Adventurer

Author:Richard Bach

“The first thing that I learned - and I understood it at a really young age - was that I could get a laugh. Really early. Because my mother and father are funny.”

Firsts Age Young Mother Father Laughing Understood Young Age Mother And Father

Author:George Clooney

“Knowledge is the key to stopping the spread of AIDS. Yet millions of children are missing an education. Missing their teachers who have died of the disease. Missing from class as they stay home to care for their dying mothers and fathers. Children are missing your support. United for Children. Unite against AIDS.”

Children Home Care Mother Father United Class Millions Support Teacher Dying Missing Keys Disease Died Spread Aids Stopping Mother And Father Father Child Children Dying

Author:Susan Sarandon

“My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me" to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why.”

Years Wells Children Mother Father Dog Died Pet Companion My Friendship Mother And Father

Author:Fred Rogers

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

Writing Mother Purpose Father Shame Mother And Father Purpose Of Writing

Author:J. P. Donleavy

“You can say I'm a hater. But I would argue I'm a lover. I'm a lover of traditional families and of the right of children to have a mother and father... I would argue that the future of America hangs in the balance, because the future of the family hangs in the balance. Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?”

“Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.”

Mother Father Inspiring Stupid Terrorist Mothers Day Mother And Father Dumb Liberal Stupid Liberal

Author:Rosie O'Donnell

“There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted, the roots of public virtue first nourished. Through love and instruction, discipline, guidance and example, we learn from our mothers and fathers the values that will shape our private lives and our public citizenship.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981

“Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land And don't criticize What you can't understand Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command Your old road is Rapidly agin' Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand For the times they are a-changin'.”

Ifs Hands Mother Father Land Son Please Daughter Command Criticize Mother And Father Our Daughter Your Daughter Your Son

Author:Bob Dylan

“And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.”

Giving Said War Mother Father Talking Boys Again And Again Assurance Mother And Father

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.”

Littles Mother Guy Father Boys Four Italian Hung Mother And Father

Author:Chazz Palminteri

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

Mother Father Mom Dad Married My Dad My Mom Mother And Father

Author:Rachael Leigh Cook

“I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.”

Mother Father Enjoyed Grandparent Stay Positive Mother And Father

Author:Dominic Chianese

“There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.”

Children Mother Father Family Tears Our Children Your Children Mother And Father Kindergarten Fidgeting

Author:Shirley Knight

“Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.”

Home Mother Father Felt Family Wonderful Streets Tears Safe Parenting Warm Motherhood Family Life Bleak Mother And Father Playgrounds Great Relationship

Author:Robert Cormier

“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.”

“I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.”

Men Way Doe Body Wanted Earth Mother Father Share Mountain Men And Women Hills Strongest Valleys Mother And Father

Author:Audre Lorde

“We are not heading for an eternal void and an eternal silence but we are on our way to an encounter, an encounter with Him who created us and loves us more than mother and father.”

Way Christian Mother Father Silence Eternal And Love Christian Inspirational Encounters Void Headings Mother And Father

Author:Raniero Cantalamessa

“For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that person's gone - the mother and father if you have kids.”

Ifs Persons Kids Mother Father Friendship Gone Lovers Over You Spouse Mother And Father Providers

Author:Jessy Schram

“To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children, and to be engaged in peaceful occupation - this is the greatest blessing.”

Children Mother Father Support Wife Blessing Peaceful Buddhist Engaged Cherish Occupation Mother And Father Greatest Blessings

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.”

Mother Father Memories Holiday Pairs Weekend Mother And Father Nannies Family Holiday

Author:Olivia Williams

“Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.”

Giving Mother Father Preserves Mother And Father

Book:Nippon Eitaigura: The Way to Wealth

Source: Nippon Eitaigura: The Way to Wealth

“I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.”

Thinking Want Children Stills Play Feelings Mother Father House Inspiring Changed Parenting Parenthood Mother And Father Inner Feelings

Author:Beverly Cleary

“No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.”

Children Stills Matter Mother Faith Father Holy Mother And Father

Book:Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior

Source: Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior

“I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.”

People Happens Mother Father Situation Gone Things Happen Mother And Father Wronged

Author:John Prescott

“I don't make a Bible argument in the ad, nor have I made a bible argument in the public space. My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.”

“My father said it himself in an interview many years ago: 'Husband and wife failed, but mother and father didn't.' I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job.”

Way Years Said Matter Jobs Mother Father Parent Wife Husband Ethics Years Ago Raised Interviews Husband And Wife Mother And Father Great Job

Author:Jakob Dylan

“The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.”

Film Mother Father Parent Identity Crisis Discovering Mother And Father Identity Crisis

Author:Christopher Eccleston

“I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.”

Mother Courses Father West Guitar Piano Shops Scotland Coast Mother And Father

Author:Colin Hay

“Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.”

Want Today Mother Father Change Live For Today Mother And Father

Author:Viktor Yushchenko

“Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions.”

Mother Father Crazy Intention Mother And Father Crazy Things

Author:Rosalind Wiseman

“Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.”

Years Two Sometimes Mother Three Father Memories Blood Thousand Dancing Thousand Years Mother And Father

Author:Martha Graham

“The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.”

Wells Has Beens Philosophy Mother Father India Ancient Indian Household Very Deep Mother And Father Ancient Philosophy

Author:Amar Bose

“The vision preached by my father a half-century ago was that his four little children would no longer live in a nation where they would judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. However, sadly, the tears of Trayvon Martin's mother and father remind us that, far too frequently, the color of one's skin remains a license to profile, to arrest and to even murder with no regard for the content of one's character.”

Children Littles Character Mother Father Nations Half Vision Four Century Tears Color Skins Murder Regard Remains Judged License Profile Mother And Father Trayvon Martin Trayvon

Author:Martin Luther King III

“There is something special about unions of husband and wife. Unless we bring men and women together, children will not have mothers and fathers.”

Men Children Together Mother Father Wife Special Husband Men And Women Unions Husband And Wife Something Special Mother And Father

Book:Still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks

Source: Still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks

“No marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose.”

Men Together Mother Purpose Father Wife Husband Men And Women Unity Working Together Stakes Husband And Wife Mother And Father Full Potential Wife Mother Unity Of Purpose

Author:Sheri L. Dew

“Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.”

Heart Matter Earth Faces Spiritual Mother Father Gravity Mother And Father Center Of Gravity

Book:Africans at the crossroads: notes for an African world revolution

Source: Africans at the crossroads: notes for an African world revolution

“In a world often marked by selfishness, a large family is a school of solidarity and sharing; and this attitude is to the benefit of society as a whole.... I always thank the Lord in seeing mothers and fathers of large families, together with their children, committed to the life of the Church and of society.”

“I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.”

Helping Age Film Mother Father Vulnerable Mother And Father Being A Father

Author:Ellen Muth

“But it's also because of something personal. 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.”

Ifs Might Mother Father Games Mets Affection Chess Mother And Father Fondness Playing Chess

Author:Dorothy Dunnett

“His mother and father were agnostics, and Jim respected devout Christians in the same way that he respected people who were members of the Graf Zeppelin Club or shopped at the Chinese department stores, for their mastery of an exotic foreign ritual. Besides, those who worked hardest for others, like Mrs. Philips and Mrs. Gilmour and Dr. Ransome, often held beliefs that turned out to be correct.”

People Way Christian Mother Father Belief Members Clubs Stores Hardest Chinese Department Ritual Mastery Drs Exotic Mother And Father Philip Zeppelins Department Stores

Author:J. G. Ballard

“The doctrine of vocation deals with how God works through human beings to bestow His gifts. God gives us this day our daily bread by means of the farmer the banker, the cooks, And the lady at the check-out counter. He creates new life - the most amazing miracle of all - by means of mothers and fathers. He protects us by means of the police officers, firemen, and our military. He creates. Through artists. He heals by working through doctors, nurses, and others whom He has gifted, equipped, and called to the medical professions.”

“I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.”

States America Mother Father United United States Taken Months Six California Camps Six Months Mother And Father Sacramento Internment Internment Camps

Author:Bob Matsui

“I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in our homes. And let us not forget how important the work of the mother and father are to raising responsible citizens.”

Important Country Done Home Mother Father Forget Four Wall Citizens Responsible Valuable Mother And Father Being Done Four Walls

Author:Ann Romney

“To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.”

Years Looks Kids Mother Father Parent Inspiring Numbers Struggle Like You Patient Be Patient Mothers Day Mother And Father

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment.”

Children America Law Mother Father Lines Ability Views Environment Confidence Deserve Raised Bottom Law Enforcement Enforcement Bottom Line In-laws Have Confidence Mother And Father

Author:Bob Ney

“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”

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