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My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is something I really know about. Even when I was a kid, it was a profession my father couldn't stay in, because he couldn't make enough money.

Quote by Warren Beatty about teachers, mother, money

I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.

Quote by Drew Barrymore about family, mother

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,...

Quote by Boy George about people, mother, contentment

Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in.

Quote by Peter Fonda about family, mother

I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!

Quote by Peter Fonda about mother, money, thinking

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about family, mother, children, things

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

Quote by Eva Herzigova about electricians, companies, mother

When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.

Quote by Quincy Jones about mother, old, olderness, things

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

Quote by James Joyce about fiction, name, children, mother, age, olderness

The mother of the man, or the father of the woman you love will invariably hate you.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about love, hate, mother, woman, contentment, man

Partly, because I became in charge of the Ministry of Defense when I was 29 years old, and my parents were still alive, both my father and my mother.

Quote by Shimon Peres about parents, mother, old, olderness

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness, to an opponent, tolerance, to a friend, your heart, to your child, a good example, to a father, deference, to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you, to yourself, respect, to all...

Quote by Benjamin Franklin about enemies, tolerance, conduct, absolution, charity, example, proudness, children, mother, respect

there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have one. It will not be a pansy heaven or a fragile heaven of lilies-of-the-valley but it will be a heaven of blackred roses my father will be(deep like a rose tall like a rose) standing...

Quote by Edward Estlin Cummings about haven, garden, eyes, mother, poets, nothing, face

My father - the Hydrogen, my mother - the Oxygen, I - the son of Water, the Aquarius.

Quote by Ion Pachia-Tatomirescu about parents, water, mother

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet...

Quote by Francis McCourt about childhood, saints, poverty, miracle, mother, happiness, fire, fire brigade, nothing, things

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Quote by Aristotel about mother, children

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Quote by Aristotel about mother, suffering, children, reason

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about children

I wish all the mothers, fathers and children out there realize how much I need them and how much I value their support.

Quote by Princess Diana about value, wish, children, need

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

Quote by Edna O'Brien about country