I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

This universe is a drop from the ocean of his beauty, unable from its fulness to find place in the parent bosom.

If they cry for their parents, they are beaten severely, sometimes hanged upside down from trees and even branded or burned with cigarettes.

All these girls take care of their children and no longer go to school, or their parents reject them

America stands armed with resolution and virtue; but she still recoils at the idea of drawing the sword against the nation from whom she derived her origin. Yet Britain, like an unnatural parent, is ready to plunge her dagger into the bosom of her affectionate offspring.

God Shiva and his mountain bride,
Like word and meaning unified,
The world's great parents, I beseech
To join fit meaning to my speech.

No, I didn't have time to take photos, I had young children, all that...

My parents and grandparents taught us a lot — not Chinese or maths but a sense of values, of how you should be and how you should treat others.

[to Evian] Well, you should be embarrassed because your parents named you after bottled water!

The pride of any mother is to give birth to a responsible and successful child.

I hope you will find another one who is both beautiful and good to take my place and serve our parents and bring up my children, and then I shall die content.

But people can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.