Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

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

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

If I were like your mother, I would be a woman.

My parents did a great job of raising me and my brother. Very supportive parents.

I grew up in an era where Dad worked, Mum looked after the family, and if I think of the qualities she brought to that - nurture and support are so valuable.

I'm actually a mummy's boy.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.

I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that.

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

Because I'm an older mom, I have a responsibility to my kids as well as myself. I want to be there for them.

You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

Men are what their mothers made them.

I have really great, great parents, and they were very supportive of me.

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

But, the truth is and we can argue about whether this is right or not as long as we want to, but the fact is that women really do spend more time with their families. Until I can find a man who can tell me the dates of all of his nieces and nephews birthdays and get presents out to them regularly, I'm going to stay by that statement.

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.

My parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.

I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.

Women and men grow up with both sexes. Our mothers and fathers mean a lot to us, so it's just a question of finding a balance between their influences. I've found mine. And it tends to be more on the male side. I mean male side the way we understand it in the West.

I've got two older sisters who I'm very close to. And my son's grown up with a big sense of family around him.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.