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Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions. -- Rosalind Wiseman
Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am. -- Henry Louis Gates
The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame. -- J.P. Donleavy
I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option. -- Drew Barrymore
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. -- Benjamin Spock
You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you. -- Meryl Streep
I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from. -- Chuck D
Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years. -- Martha Graham
If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count. -- Dave Van Ronk
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. -- John Henrik Clarke
I, Kim Heechul, was born to successfully make women fall in love with me. It's not my fault. It's not of my own free will. My mother and father created this face. -- Kim Heechul
It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful. -- Roald Dahl
Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent, single-parent, cohabiting homes. -- Todd Tiahrt
All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye. -- Margaret Atwood
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. -- Raniero Cantalamessa
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 -- David Plotz
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. -- Benjamin Spock
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. -- Chaske Spencer
If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well. -- Maya Angelou
All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and fathers. If every child could drift to sleep feeling wrapped in the love of their family - and God's love - this world would be a far more gentle and better place. -- Mitt Romney
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. -- Pope Francis
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. -- Fred Rogers
When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family. I was aware that my mother and father couldn't control things anymore. I guess I was afraid that we would end up on the street. -- Jo Nesbo
Father-Mother is the name for Deity ... -- Mary Baker Eddy
A mother's pride, a father's joy. -- Walter Scott
My mother never forgave my father -- Stanley Kunitz
No mother, no father, no Sight. -- Garth Nix
I loved my mother and father. -- Roger Moore
My mother is French, my father is Texan. -- Mireille Enos
The theater was my mother and my father. -- Ingrid Bergman
Like father like son, like mother like daughter! -- Jamaica Kincaid
Father's Day just be Mother's Day the sequel. -- J. B. Smoove
God Father (the Creator) geometrizes, God Mother (Nature) fractalizes. -- Stefan Emunds
My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father. -- Julian Fellowes
My mother and father were interested in the arts. -- Ken Adam
Most people marry their mother. I married my father. -- Wayne Gretzky
My father is Swedish and my mother is French. -- Eva Green
My mother left my father in their late 60s. -- Dito Montiel
If Nature is our mother, then God is our father. -- Henry David Thoreau
My father and my mother separated when I was two. -- Carla Gugino
Many great stories are father issues, mother issues or death. -- Kathleen Kennedy
Cost is the father and compensation the mother of progress. -- J. G. Holland
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother. -- Germaine Greer
I look a lot like my father and his mother. -- Sade Adu
I am the son of an illiterate father and mother -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father. -- Jeremy Taylor
My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist. -- T. D. Jakes
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. -- Gloria Steinem
If necessity is the mother of invention, conflict is its father. -- Kenneth Kaye
I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race. -- Giancarlo Esposito
I've always stayed really close with my mother and my father. -- Nicole Richie
Father's Day is like Mother's Day except the gift is cheaper. -- Colin Falconer
My father is a businessman, and my mother is a schoolteacher. -- Kangna Ranaut
God is our father, but even more is God our mother. -- Pope John Paul I
Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father. -- Alex Faickney Osborn
My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme. -- Saul Williams
My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania. -- Herbie Mann
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind. -- Giordano Bruno
My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona. -- Eric Cantona
My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker. -- Alan Sugar
My father and mother separated when I was two months old. -- George Carlin
The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed. -- Thomas Friedman
My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt. -- William Blake
My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia. -- Kaniehtiio Horn
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My main teachers were my father and my mother and my brother. -- Jeff Bridges
Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries -- John Cleese
My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers. -- John Lewis
My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk. -- Ozzy Osbourne
My father was a classical musician and my mother was a writer. -- John Sebastian
My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model. -- Paige Butcher
My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company. -- Eva Herzigova
My father and mother had no sense of entitlement for their children. -- Seamus Heaney
My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled -- Tom Berenger
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. -- David Rockefeller
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. -- Simon van der Meer
The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence. -- Lajos Kassak
Last words of his mother to his father: Keep eternity before the children. -- Dallas Willard
My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting. -- Tina Turner
My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation. -- Arthur Rock
No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair. -- Margaret Turnbull
Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother. -- Camille Paglia
My father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer. -- Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father. -- Mason Cooley
My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife. -- George Akerlof
I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father. -- Greg Norman
Love your mother, she bore you. Love your father, he works for you. -- Marvin Gaye
My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams. -- Liza Minnelli
As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother. -- Julian of Norwich
Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated. -- David Dinkins
Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother. -- George Herbert
Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you. -- Laura Schlessinger
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man. -- S. E. Hinton
My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education. -- Gordon Bell
My mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better. -- Chelsea Clinton
They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak. -- George W. Bush
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. -- Robert Frost
On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin. -- Tamsin Greig
But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father. -- Ogden Nash
Holy mother!" "Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference." -Hephaetus -- Rick Riordan
My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer. -- Liza Minnelli
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother. -- Broderick Crawford
If my father was the head of our house, my mother was its heart. -- Irving Pichel
I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. -- Jean de la Bruyere
My mother's father was a doctor, and she desperately wanted to be a doctor. -- Ruth Reichl
I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father. -- Carlisle Floyd
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. -- Quentin Crisp
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My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. -- David Johansen
My mother wasnÊ¹t sleeping with anybody. She doesnÊ¹t even sleep with my father. -- Richelle Mead
My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University. -- James Cronin
Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry. -- Theodore Parker
When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it. -- Euzhan Palcy
Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. -- Harold Coffin
I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education. -- Jeb Bush
My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist. -- Michael Bergin
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. -- Laurence J. Peter

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