If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
James BaldwinI always wanted to do what my brothers were doing. I always wanted to play the games they played and play rough and wear pants and go outside.
RihannaIt’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.
George H. W. BushMy mom’s one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.
Kendrick LamarA child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Billy GrahamWhen you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.
Adam SandlerI’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.
Anthony HopkinsPeople change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.
Michelle ObamaI grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.
Beyonce KnowlesWhen I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here’s the most important person in my life, and I never met him.
Wayne DyerI have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.
Wayne DyerThere’s a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I’m affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn’t want to leave. He likes it very much.
David BowieOccasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.
Billy GrahamI got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.
Jim CarreyWhen I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child… eventually.
Steven WrightI’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.
Adam SandlerIt’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.
Alice WalkerThe place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand RussellFathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar WildeNever fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard ShawMy father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.
Joyce MeyerI think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
Ruth Bader GinsburgMy dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.
Kevin HartIt takes three to make a child.
E. E. CummingsYou teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Samuel JohnsonMy mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.
Jim CarreyTo be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.
Angelina JolieThe roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
Stephen CoveyI want my kids to see me as Dad, for God’s sake, not a television personality.
Gordon RamsayI’m not great at bedtime stories. Bedtime stories are supposed to put the kid to sleep. My kid gets riled up and then my wife has to come in and go, ‚All right! Get out of the room.‘
Adam SandlerMy mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.
Ruth Bader GinsburgDo you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, ‚A house guest,‘ you’re wrong because I have just described my kids.
Erma BombeckThe fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand RussellI’ve never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn’t mean for me to have kids so that everybody else’s children could be mine.
Dolly PartonMy father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.
Joyce MeyerAs a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.
Jackie ChanMy fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.
Kevin HartMy daughter has impressions that she does of me.
Kevin HartI praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.
Jim CarreyWe do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
Booker T. WashingtonI was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn’t care for it in other people either.
Brene BrownMen are what their mothers made them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMe and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.
DrakeMy daughter doesn’t even get my humor. She’s like, ‚Um, no. I don’t get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.‘
Kevin HartIt’s true that I’ve never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
Taylor SwiftI don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
Woody AllenThe most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.
Tennessee WilliamsYour children will see what you’re all about by what you live rather than what you say.
Wayne DyerLike all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
Queen Elizabeth IINow that I’m a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.
Adam SandlerWe were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother – but… when she became our child, the affection came.
Emily DickinsonIt is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles DickensFor the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.
Friedrich NietzscheI was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it’s a natural thing.
Elvis PresleyI was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.
Dwayne JohnsonWith the amount of money I have, it’s difficult raising children the way I was raised.
Adam SandlerChildren wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William ShakespeareIllegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
Dan QuayleMy own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I’ve had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm’s way until they could be their own guides.
Wayne DyerA lot of preachers‘ kids are some of the most rebellious kids in the world. I never was like that.
Joel Osteen