I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
We were very kooky and inventive, and it didn't take long for my parents to realize we should all be auditioning for… — Ashley Williams Copy Share Image
If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
Being the father of girls is a kind of illness, in its own way - since any guy who has tried to… — Steve Schirripa Copy Share Image
“What I want my father's writing to keep teaching us is that at the table of writing, everyone is welcome. No voice… — Kim Stafford Copy Share Image
I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I tell everyone in the world that I have always been the best father I could be and that I was the… — Ric Flair Copy Share Image
She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
It is absolutely ludicrous that abortion supporters would accuse a blood relative of Dr. King of hijacking the King legacy. Uncle Martin… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
My father had four jobs every summer. He taught driver's education. He sold World Book Encyclopedias. He sold life insurance. He worked… — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of… — Chloe Sevigny Copy Share Image
As a child I started working. Again I had luck with my father's help financially, but I also had to work. I… — Eric Bailly Copy Share Image
After all, when we were children, when things went wrong, there wasn’t much we could do to help put it right. But… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
The room was quiet, the others flicking glances at me. I ignored them. After years in Sounis's palaces being eyed with disgust… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
A pearl, even if it is cast down into the mud, is not despised. And if one covers it with balsam, it… — Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov Copy Share Image
On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is… — Calamity Jane Copy Share Image
Seriously, as a father, I want golf to be cool for my children. Easy to access. If they want to play in… — Tommy Fleetwood Copy Share Image
I do have a fear of being cursed, genetically; that I might have the same chemical imbalance that caused my father's depression. — Tara Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
At one time, my mother did plan to divorce my father when she found out about an affair he had with a… — Penny Junor Copy Share Image
My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because… — Erika Slezak Copy Share Image
I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bit of French, a… — Adelaide Kane Copy Share Image
As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She… — Lorraine Bracco Copy Share Image
Both my parents were working-class and had dreams of making the world a better place. It's pretty powerful, being able to reflect… — Neneh Cherry Copy Share Image
“If my father had been working at the 7-Eleven in Wyoming last night, what would he have done? Would he have gone… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
My mother and my father were very nurturing and wonderful examples of how to live your life. I really had a cool… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
My dad is really the reason I have this hard work ethic. I can fully remember him leaving home at 5 o'clock… — Mustafa Ali Copy Share Image
O Heavenly Father, convert my religion from a name to a principle! Bring all my thoughts and movements into an habitual reference… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not… — Mark Davis Copy Share Image
My father was possessed of an extraordinary romantic idealism, an unwavering belief in certain principles. He was always talking about the past.… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
My dad, who I'm very close to, is one of those men where once you're in, once he loves you, that's it,… — Jesse Plemons Copy Share Image
Don't let the fact that Obama became president without having a father in his life make you feel unimportant this Father's Day. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My dad died when I was 23. His death was sudden and shocking - the result of a car crash - and… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
"I'm a victim of sexual discrimination." "No, you're the victim of a cruel sexual experiment performed by your mother and father. — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
“Your father was beautiful.” She didn’t even hesitate. I wanted to ask her what happened to all that beauty.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
My father passed away in 2005, and day after, I sat in my flat in Woolwich on my bed, and I feel… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
