The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame. Votes: 2
J.P. DonleavyI learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option. Votes: 2
Drew BarrymoreYou don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you. Votes: 2
Meryl StreepMy father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. Votes: 0
Simon van der MeerNo man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair. Votes: 0
Margaret TurnbullIf necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. Votes: 0
David RockefellerMy father was a construction engineer, and my mother was a production engineer. Votes: 0
Mikhail KhodorkovskyLiberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother. Votes: 0
Camille PagliaI was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister. Votes: 0
Israel Kamakawiwo'oleI was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister, Votes: 0
Israel Kamakawiwo'oleI shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyereMy mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better. Votes: 0
Chelsea ClintonMy father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother. Votes: 0
Broderick CrawfordMy mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer. Votes: 0
Liza MinnelliYou don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. Votes: 0
Robert FrostThey call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak. Votes: 0
George W. BushLove matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheOn my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin. Votes: 0
Tamsin GreigBut children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father. Votes: 0
Ogden NashMy mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man. Votes: 0
S. E. HintonMy mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education. Votes: 0
Gordon BellHoly mother!" "Hmph. More like holy father. I'd think you'd know the difference." -Hephaetus Votes: 0
Rick RiordanPoverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyereBut my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24 Votes: 0
Rachael Leigh CookBut my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. Votes: 0
Rachael Leigh CookWhen my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it. Votes: 0
Euzhan PalcyGenius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry. Votes: 0
Theodore ParkerEvery girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. Votes: 0
Laurence J. PeterMy mother wasnʹt sleeping with anybody. She doesnʹt even sleep with my father. Votes: 0
Richelle MeadThe father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. Votes: 0
Robert FrostMiddle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. Votes: 0
Harold CoffinMy father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist. Votes: 0
Michael BerginMy mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University. Votes: 0
James CroninMy mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner. Votes: 0
Poppy Z. BriteIf need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly. Votes: 0
AnujI attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood. Votes: 0
Leverett SaltonstallThe group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.My father was on the Alcoholics Anonymous wishlist. My mother was on... parole. And lithium. Votes: 0
Christopher TitusMy mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff. Votes: 0
Pete SeegerMy mother is black and my father is Filipino. I got the best of both worlds. Votes: 0
Cassie VenturaHe cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineIn half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past. Votes: 0
Jodi PicoultI'm glad to say my father never felt ashamed of me, but my mother probably did. Votes: 0
Marianne FaithfullA minister stands for Father Peace, but a good one is no stranger to Mother War. Votes: 0
Joe AbercrombieThe most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. Votes: 0
Theodore HesburghI'm always around my mother and sisters. I always wanted to be a father, a husband. Votes: 0
Tom CruiseMy father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife" She married a house? Votes: 0
Sherrilyn KenyonHe who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother. Votes: 0
MuhammadI have my mother's mouth and my father's eyes; on my face they are still together. Votes: 0
Warsan ShireMy father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything. Votes: 0
Carly SimonEven when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home. Votes: 0
Anna GodbersenSometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child. Votes: 0
Yoko OnoYounger kids, they understand that things aren't so perfect with their father or with their mother. Votes: 0
Paul Reiser"Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness Votes: 0
AeschylusHe who does not have the church as his mother, does not have God as his father. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineMy mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. Votes: 0
Mariah CareyMy father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden. Votes: 0
Zlatan IbrahimovicI know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred. Votes: 0
V. S. NaipaulListen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old. Votes: 0
SolomonI suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. Votes: 0
Seamus HeaneyI got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father. Votes: 0
Missy ElliottI got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father. Votes: 0
Missy ElliotMy mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really. Votes: 0
Rufus WainwrightMy mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer. Votes: 0
James Cameron... my mother and father ... raised nine of us and taught each to do our best ... We tried. Votes: 0
Eunice Kennedy ShriverMy father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. Votes: 0
John MajorMy mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. Votes: 0
Jeff BridgesBoth my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke. Votes: 0
Imelda StauntonElvis Presley is my spiritual father, and as you may know Maria Callas is my spiritual mother. Votes: 0
Klaus NomiKuwait is the mother and father, Earth and it's supplies. She is the past, present and future. Votes: 0
Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-SabahMy father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. Votes: 0
Eric Allin CornellBe able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father. Votes: 0
Marilyn vos SavantTo my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession. Votes: 0
William Standish KnowlesMy mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening. Votes: 0
Zoe WanamakerMy mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father. Votes: 0
Alice HoffmanMy mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father. Votes: 0
Hugh LeonardEvery time I find a girl who can cook like my mother - she looks like my father Votes: 0
Tony RandallWhy should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father? Votes: 0
Susan B. AnthonyI could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father. Votes: 0
John Henrik ClarkeSee all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child Votes: 0
AtisaThe sun is our father, the earth is our mother. And God is a myth destroying our family. Votes: 0
Steve FowlerA father may turn his back on his child, ⦠. but a mother's love endures through all. Votes: 0
Washington IrvingBoth my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. Votes: 0
James GandolfiniMy mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books. Votes: 0
Beverly ClearyMy father was everything to me. Unlike my mother - I didn't have a special affinity with her. Votes: 0
Giovanna CauI'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else. Votes: 0
Jim CarreyWhen you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life. Votes: 0
Patricia KaasI enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them. Votes: 0
Dominic ChianeseMy father was also a principal of a school and mother was a curriculum advisor. Both were educators. Votes: 0
Edwin MosesWhen your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd. Votes: 0
Logan Marshall-GreenGod has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother. Votes: 0
Harriet Beecher StoweMy father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands. Votes: 0
Hermione GingoldMy father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her. Votes: 0
Jennifer AnistonMy mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group. Votes: 0
Jessica WhiteI was very fortunate to have had a mother and father who loved me in spite of my failings. Votes: 0
George W. BushMy mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers. Votes: 0
Sergio LeoneThe love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology. Votes: 0
Salvatore J. CordileoneThere is no home as comfortable as your father's arms and no bed as soft as your mother's lap. Votes: 0
Faraaz KaziGod is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body. Votes: 0
Sathya Sai BabaBecause my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased Votes: 0
John James Audubon[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding. Votes: 0
Dick Van DykeBecause my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. Votes: 0
John James AudubonTo my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them. Votes: 0
Marita GoldenMy mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer. Votes: 0
Danny AielloMother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due? Votes: 0
Mabel Osgood WrightMy father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world. Votes: 0
Sandra BernhardBut my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome. Votes: 0
Isabella RosselliniI couldn't be as charming as my mother or as smart as my father. So I decided to be bad. Votes: 0
Markie PostThe best way to be a good father to your children is to be a good husband to their mother. Votes: 0
Jay E. AdamsI was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living. Votes: 0
Bobby WomackMy father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline. Votes: 0
TecumsehWhen you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps. Votes: 0
Dick GregoryMusic is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love... Votes: 0
Jeff BuckleyMy mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978. Votes: 0
Roberto BenigniMy father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife. Votes: 0
Ethel WatersIf you want to make your mother happy, talk to her. If you want to make your father happy, listen. Votes: 0
John C. MaxwellA mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife. Votes: 0
Leah Ward SearsI have my father to thank for my build and height, and my mother to thank for my lips and eyes. Votes: 0
Jasmine GuinnessA father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other. Votes: 0
ConfuciusI get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin. Votes: 0
Norma ShearerAll of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of. Votes: 0
Ken VenturiMama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live. Votes: 0
Lillian HellmanMy father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her. Votes: 0
Gregory CorsoMy father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats. Votes: 0
Yancy ButlerThou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life. Votes: 0
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