Quotes for All
You don’t want the children to know how afraid / you are. You want to be sure their hold on life / is steady, sturdy. Were mothers and fathers / always this anxious, holding the ringing / receiver close to the ear: / ‘Why don’t they answer where could they be? Gail Mazur
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. Euripides
… my mother and father … raised nine of us and taught each to do our best … We tried. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. Enid Bagnold
I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age. Ellen Muth
Most mothers and fathers will shop more for a TV set than they will for a child care center for their child. Edward Zigler
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 … Read more
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. Franklin D. Roosevelt
My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about mathmatics. I must have gotten that from my father, he was a master of math and science, and I always liked that sort of thing, too. Of course my mother and father did … Read more
I have just as much right to stay in America – in fact, the black people have contributed more to America than any other race, because our kids have fought here for what was called \”democracy\”; our mothers and fathers were sold and bought here for a price. So all I can say when they … Read more