Mother And Father Quotes

1. “Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am.”

2. “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.”

3. “My beauty icon is the love between my mother and father.”

4. “I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.”

5. “God Bless my mother and father for all the hard work they've done for our family.”

6. “The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.”

7. “Cancer has affected my family; my mother and father have battled cancer. I know how tough it is.”

8. “I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.”

9. “The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.”

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

11. “When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister and annoy my mother and father pretending to be someone else, so I kind of was already acting when I was a child. I just didn't really know it.”

12. “My family - my mother and father had gone through such a hard time that by the time I graduated from sixth grade, they were separated.”

13. “My mom was my mother and father. My father lost his mind when I was about 4 years old. And my mom did everything she could to make sure that we was brought up right.”

14. “I love my mother and father. The older I get, the more I value everything that they gave me.”

15. “I'm a product of this visionary mother and father.”

16. “I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way, and it surely is approved holy by the Holy Bible, and it holds so many more possibilities: the possibilities of having children of both the mother and father, the male and the female.”

17. “My mother and father met through climbing and it was totally natural that I would become a climber too.”

18. “My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.”

19. “I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.”

20. “My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.”

21. “My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I was born in Katmandu, lived there until I was eight, and then moved to Australia with my mother and father. So yeah, I'm very mixed up, been to many different schools.”

22. “My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.”

23. “I've got very little grey hair. It's to do with the genes. My mother and father were the same.”

24. “My mother and father were middle-class, and my grandmother lived in the ghetto, so I used to spend my summers at her house.”

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

26. “I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.”

27. “Man can never expect to start from scratch; he must start from ready-made things, like even his own mother and father.”

28. “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.”

29. “I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.”

30. “I picked up the guitar at 12 yrs old - basically, my mother and father bought it for me for Christmas. I played one at my friend's house; when I say played it, I just played around with it at my friend's house. It just struck me as something I really wanted.”

31. “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.”

32. “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.”

33. “Growing up, my mom was my mother and father figure. She was my role model. I looked up to her. She was all we ever needed.”

34. “The thing is that my father's story helps to communicate what was at stake with my mother, and my mother and father had so much a partnership that his story is integral to her story, as her story is to his - really, her story can't be told without his story.”

35. “My mother and father raised their eyebrows at first when I said I wanted to be an actor because I was in this industrial city. My dad had done a bit of boxing on the side, but he was a welder first and foremost. I was 17, and I said, 'I want to be an actor.' They worried it was a waste of time.”

36. “My mom is just incredible. She's delved into both the mother and father figure in my life.”

37. “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.”

38. “I had a very special family life. My mother and father made sure when we were home, we were part of the family, not a TV star. And the other thing: my father was fully employed while I was doing the series.”

39. “I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas.”

40. “My mother and father could not handle even me being gay. We never talked about it, really.”

41. “I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.”

42. “One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red.”

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

44. “My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be the best.”

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

46. “Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.”

47. “People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.”

48. “Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?”

49. “The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about.”

50. “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.”

51. “My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.”

52. “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.”

53. “Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.”

54. “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.”

55. “My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across.”

56. “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.”

57. “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.”

58. “The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.”

59. “There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.”

60. “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.”

61. “I'm a very traditional person. The tattoos are about my grandmother dying and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It's pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football too.”

62. “I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.”

63. “I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.”

64. “I loved my mother and father.”

65. “Well, I was very lucky. 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.”

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

67. “My mother and father were perfect role models. They were together for 25 years and very much in love. But I've got too much to do now. I'm only 27.”

68. “My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.”

69. “One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.”

70. “My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.”

71. “I'm working on my relationship with my mother and father, but my upbringing has been very destructive.”

72. “I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, 'Is it? Why? Why is it like that?' Sometimes that questioning leads to something more.”

73. “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.”

74. “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.”

75. “My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.”

76. “My mother and father were very strange people. They tried to be funny which is always very sad to me.”

77. “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.”

78. “I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.”

79. “My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.”

80. “My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn't say my relationship with either of them - they're no longer together - is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through.”

81. “My mother and father were interested in the arts.”

82. “My mother is a huge fan of my work. I told her about 'Coraline' long before the film was made, and she got the book and read it. She reminded me that when I was about five years old, I used to sit in the kitchen for hours and talk about my 'other' family in Africa, my other mother and father. I had totally forgotten that.”

83. “I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of hard work, like what hard work brings to you. They've taught me and my brothers and sisters to set your goals high and to give everything to reach them.”

84. “I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.”

85. “People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my mother and father. We really enjoy staying in and making a meal together. I'm very close with all four of my older sisters as well.”

86. “My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today's street obsession with bling, cars or cribs.”

87. “My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn't be the problems that there are.' In other words, 'treat people the way you want to be treated.' If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won't make a right.”

88. “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.”

89. “My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns.”

90. “The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.”

91. “As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. My father was kind of funny. I'd score 40 points. I'd come home and say, 'Look dad, I scored 40.' He'd never have a smile on his face. He'd be like, 'I saw that move you did. What if you'd hurt your knee?'”

92. “My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself.”

93. “I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'”

94. “All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.”

95. “Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.”

96. “My love for artichokes comes from when I was very young. My mother and father would slice the hearts and fry them, and they would be crispy around the leaves and tender at the base.”

97. “We are all anxious to be accepted. But if you have a strong mother and father who tell you that you don't have to dress a crazy way, or hang out with people who are looking for trouble in order to be loved and accepted, then half the battle is over.”

98. “My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.”

99. “I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the 'metro.' Everybody saw me as a very urban guy. And I was.”

100. “To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don't think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else's. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness.”

101. “I went to all the shops in the village looking for work. I didn't have any qualifications. I ended up working in a grocery shop for about a year and then went to a confectioner, where I earned three pounds 10 shillings. I gave the money to my mother and father, but I also managed to save five shillings a week.”

102. “My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what I mean, Mr. Big Shot? So, you can sing a song …'”

103. “My mother and father definitely encouraged me. People used to tell my mom that I should be in commercials, and then everything kicked off from there, and my first gig was some print work.”

104. “I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.”

105. “It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions!”

106. “The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.”

107. “My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not around you, you develop a different perception than someone who has never experienced racism a day in their lives.”

108. “When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I kill someone, would you still love me?' My parents were very preoccupied with this, but I think I'm not the only one to ask for that - not love, but absolute fidelity.”

109. “When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.”

110. “It used to be, on TV, you'd see only two types of Asians. You'd see the science geek who's using his mobile phone or something like that, or you'd see a very token Asian family - yuppie mother and father and two little Asian kids. It's the last barrier for Hollywood.”

111. “Reared in rural southern Alabama, we enjoyed an idyllic Huck Finn boyhood. But education there was casual at best. Our mother and father were high school teachers and challenged the pervasive easy-going ignorance.”

112. “My mother and father, with my newborn brother and me in the backseat of the 1938 Ford sedan that would be our family car for the next decade, moved to that hastily constructed Army ammunition depot called Igloo, on the alkaline and sagebrush landscape of far southwestern South Dakota. I was three years old.”

113. “My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.”

114. “I was born in 1935. But my mother and father - who were immigrants from Ireland - and everybody that I knew growing up in Brooklyn came out of the Depression, and they were remarkable people.”

115. “You know how my mother and father met? In a train robbery!”

116. “One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.”

117. “Although my mother and father were both completely legit, it was all around me, this crime and licentiousness.”

118. “I wanted a relationship like the one my mother and father had. It wasn't perfect; they had to work on it. But there was an unbelievable mutual respect.”

119. “My mother and father were partisan national heroes: I learned sacrifice and discipline from them and that a private life is not as important as the message you want to leave.”

120. “In my case, my mother had to be my mother and father, so I am thankful to her.”

121. “I've tried to live my life in a way that respects the beliefs of my mother and father. Everyone has blessings, gifts, passion, and drive.”

122. “I hated being typecast in those roles. It was personally limiting, only playing stereotyped heavies. But I got those roles because I was angry, because that's what I projected. I was angry at my mother and father because they didn't get along, angry at the church. On top of that, I had an extreme lack of self-confidence.”

123. “At one time, when I was eight years old, my mother and father, my brother and my sisters - we had to move back in with my grandmother, and there were 13 of us living in one house.”

124. “Between 1958 and 1963, I sold about 40 million records - to the shock of my mother and father because I was always playing Beethoven. But I bought my mother a mink stole. She was very happy, and she said, 'I think this is better than Beethoven.'”

125. “My father had to play the role of mother and father.”

126. “I experienced no conflict between my mother and father, which was entirely due to my mother's compassion, intelligence, and maturity.”

127. “She had to play the role of mother and father at the same time, and she did it to perfection. I managed to find a way through because of her. My mother is my biggest inspiration.”

128. “My mother and father were visionaries in Pittsburgh, part of that collective of people who were creative and active together, and I am a product of that community and those relationships.”

129. “I love kids, and I think I would be a great dad. I had great parents, and my mother and father are my best friends, so I'd have good examples to lead from.”

130. “After my mother and father separated when I was 5, my mother moved to Washington, D.C., and my father remained in North Carolina. Later, I moved to New York and would often drive down to D.C. to see her. We'd ride around together talking and listening to music.”

131. “My mother and father just taught me the basics: to be really kind, to really listen to people. I have never been one to put on airs and graces.”

132. “I lived with my mother and father and brothers and sisters some of the time; some of the time, my mother and father were feuding, so my mother would take us to live in my grandmother's house.”

133. “My mother and father were born and raised in Pakistan, where religion is entrenched in the culture and the culture is explicitly unyielding.”

134. “My mother and father are exceptionally proud Indians. They always wanted to contribute, to give back philanthropically, especially in the field of education.”

135. “My mother and father have been fantastic help and a huge support for me. Like any other family, though, we have our moments, living and working together.”

136. “My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents.”

137. “There was a point where I was leaving for California when I was 22. It was a tough decision to make because, at that time, my mother and father both ran a successful chain of women's lingerie stores in metro Detroit. Two were called Bra World, and two were called Lulu's Lingerie. They were great. They did well.”

138. “I got very lucky with the family I was born into. From my older sisters to my mother and father, they're just good, kind-hearted people.”

139. “My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.”

140. “During my childhood and teenage years, everything I knew was at war. My mother and father were at war. My sister and I were at war. I was at war with my atypical nature, desperately trying to fit in and be normal. Even my genes were at war - the cool Swiss-German side versus the hot-headed Corsican.”

141. “The tattoos are about my grandmother dying, and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister, my kids. It's pretty much a family tree on my arm with my life in football, too.”

142. “My mother and father are big musical heroes of mine. I think it was because it was the first memories that I have of actually hearing music and falling in love with it and wanting to be a part of it in some way.”

143. “My mother and father didn't know anything about instruments. Me just see a man in the country play guitar one time and say, 'My, the man play that guitar nice.'”

144. “When you come from Poland, you have nothing. Your mother and father are working. You have only a bed for sleep. You have a kitchen, and that's it. You must fight.”

145. “Saudi Arabia is the mother and father of political Islam.”

146. “My mother and father didn't treat my brothers and sisters the same, so to treat 12 players exactly the same, that's a great accomplishment.”

147. “It was always about being first, about winning. There were no prizes for second place. My mother and father said, 'Do whatever you want, as long as you're the best at it.'”

148. “Both my mother and father worked for everything that they had.”

149. “I know how critical that is, having a mother and father involved in your life, and I'm going to continue to be the most involved father hopefully that you'll ever see.”

150. “A word, for example, that is negative, pejorative, and has caused more pain and suffering is 'illegitimate.' But every person has a mother and father. It is another way we let society hurt others.”

151. “If people look at me and, certainly, my brothers, and they see strength and guts, they'd have to know my parents. If they wanted to know why we're so close as a family, that closeness comes from my mother and father.”

152. “I love Coney Island. I saw all different kinds of people - Russian, Italian, black, Puerto Rican, rich people in Sea Gate and in the co-ops. You'd see people in the co-ops or in the houses, and it was like, Man, I wish I could have this. I wish my mother and father could buy me this. Me being an independent thinker, I was like, I'm gonna get that.”

153. “I'm a product of the different - whether it be institutional racialism, whether it might be growing up in a low-income area, whether it might be, you know, coming from my mother, my father. I'm a totally different person from my mother and father, but once again I'm from them. We all have our different souls, but I'm from them.”

154. “I am trying to be both mother and father to my children.”

155. “I was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, and we lived there for three to five years - with my mother and father. And then they divorced and she came back to America.”

156. “I understand my mother and father and sister are in Turkey, but if I stop talking, who is going to speak for the thousands and thousands of innocent people in jail?”

157. “My mother and father both died at 64.”

158. “My mother and father have always drilled in to me that work is very important.”

159. “When I was a kid, I dreamt of being a runner. My mother and father always told me to go after what I wanted. I went after running.”

160. “I was never going to do anything that would have brought shame to my family. I owed too much, and I wanted them to be proud to say that they were Bruno Sammartino's mother and father.”

161. “I belong to a highly religious family. Both my mother and father perform fasting, do shrads and completely believe in Ganpati. This has influenced me and that is why even I am so religious.”

162. “My mother and father were farmers from very humble means, and when I was three years old they moved from the roca to the city to try to give us a better life. My father took a job at a winery and my mother worked as a seamstress.”

163. “A feminist is a person who wants equal things for men and women, and I definitely believe in that. This doesn't mean I will degrade anyone. In our house, I want my mother and father to have equal importance and that's the only way to bring up a socially responsible child.”

164. “My mother and father were lovely parents, always quite hard up, but very hard-working.”

165. “We used to go to the jazz fest in Kansas City. And my mother and father took me.”

166. “I really ran away in 1951 from South Africa, where I lived with my mother and father - who was a doctor - to come back to England to find myself, then hide what I found.”

167. “I was always the headstrong child in the family. My mother and father called me a rebel at 2 years old. But they always accepted me as an individual.”

168. “The photo shoots were not easy. I cried and refused to do anything that would shame my mother and father.”

169. “I sacrificed a lot. I wasn't able to be with my mother and father for how many months and years and then of course, training was excruciating.”

170. “My mother and father had to change every clock in the house manually and they had three small children. Yet I never remember them complaining about something so inconsequential as Daylight Saving Time.”

171. “My father was born into a family transport business and, as a kid, it was exciting having big trucks to sit in. It wasn't a kissy-cuddly environment. It was Mother and Father as opposed to Mummy and Daddy. I would shake my father's hand and kiss my mother on the cheek rather than hug them, but it was a close family unit.”

172. “I would love to tell you I had the worst childhood you could ever imagine but believe it or not it was idyllic. I had two older brothers that I idolised, two younger brothers that I played with, sisters I adored and a mother and father I had great respect for.”

173. “I did everything I could to fight hard on the court to show my mother and father that their hard work was worth it.”

174. “I love where I'm from. That's where my mother and father grew up, where all my family's at. It really built me.”

175. “My mother and father put down some earnest money on a house on the north side of Chicago. I don't remember the details, but it got all messed up and we had to go back to that house and get that money back. I had to do that negotiation… It's not a situation that children should be put into.”

176. “My mother and father were born in the big country, the U.S.S.R. But my father was really born in Moldova and he spoke only Moldovan until he was 10.”