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My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were both Marines.
— Jon Bon Jovi
I urge the husbands and fathers of this church to be the kind of a man your wife would not want to be without.
— James Faust
We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?
— Mother Teresa
Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.
— John Lennon
You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.
— Abraham Lincoln
As to your families my counsel is, never lay down your authority to a wife or child, but treat them so kindly they will never want to leave you.
— Brigham Young
I'm so blessed with my Baby. [...] I just want the most normal life possible for him. [...] I will manage. I will create that.
— Britney Spears
When fathers come home after a tough day at work, they should come home to serve, like my father did, teaching lessons around the dinner table and leading the family in worship and prayer.
— Tony Evans
I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.
— Steven Spielberg
Should Sen. McCain capture the nomination as many assume, I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for President in my lifetime. I certainly can't vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama based on their virulently anti-family policy positions.
— James Dobson
When my mother passed away, we knew what she wanted on her tombstone, so I asked my father, so there wouldn't be any argument among us children, 'Daddy, what do you want on your tombstone?' He thought about that. He said, 'preacher.' So that's what's going to be on his tombstone. Preacher.
— Franklin Graham
Mum prayed to the Lord that when her children were born they wouldn't be tone deaf. Mum says at two years old I was singing my own little songs, she didn't know where I'd heard it so I must have made it up. I used to sing along with the radio.
— Judith Durham