“Father Sutherland lowered the aluminum bat, looking like the holiest man to ever win the Triple Crown.” — Jonathan Janz Copy Share Image
My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Our Holy Father says every one of us is in need of conversion, beginning with ourselves. We are all in need of… — Joseph Edward Kurtz Copy Share Image
What do you do when your mother inlaw snds horrible messages? A:send her an accidental message- Thanks babe I love you and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I started going to training my father used to take me. But that meant we had to buy two bus tickets… — Davinson Sanchez Copy Share Image
Parents spend the first part of our lives teaching us to walk and talk, and the rest of it telling us to… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
“You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents’ throw pillows. You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply… — John Green Copy Share Image
“They waited, none of them entirely convinced that the old man wouldn't appear before them again like the ghost of Hamlet's father… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I would say basically the commonplace observation that kids aren't going to earn as much as their parents is now is a… — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
“It’s a mistake to believe that they (parents) are responsible for their children’s best future. This responsibility is on their children, and… — Lukasz Laniecki Copy Share Image
You will always have a special connection with the woman who had your child. Only she might not have the special feelings… — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
“But for a mother who was submissive to the degree my mother was, it was OK to kill girls. For a father… — Souad Copy Share Image
“Before I lost my father, I never understood the rituals surrounding funerals: the wake, the service itself, the reception afterward,the dinners prepared… — Wendy Webb Copy Share Image
Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Scriabin, as you know, is a mystic composer. His music is supersensuous, superromantic, and supermysterious. Everything is super; it is all a… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a father, and I wanted to be involved in my children's athletics, school stuff like that. — Johny Hendricks Copy Share Image
“My mother drove me to Boston and bought me a beautiful blue dress that touched the floor, spilling out in waves; I… — Kelle Groom Copy Share Image
I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was… — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
My parents couldn't handle my energy so they enrolled me in every sport the school was offering. I didn't resent it because… — Channing Tatum Copy Share Image
It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity. Ultimately, my parents marker is do you… — Aasif Mandvi Copy Share Image
For their entire lives, even before they met you, your mother and father held their love for you inside their hearts like… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even though I wasn't born here, I feel I'm a 'Brasiliense' because I grew up here, my mother grew up here, and… — Vicente Luque Copy Share Image
I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
“Inside I am a beautiful woman,' Okha said... 'The Trickster tapped me in my mother's womb and placed me in this man's… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
“I tell my parents I'm going out for pudding. They think this might be a nickname for heroin.Mum makes the international face… — Joe Dunthorne Copy Share Image
I thoroughly enjoy my children's birthdays, despite the fact their parties are an apocalyptic mix of hall-booking, Nerf-gun-hiring, refreshment-organising and talking to… — Romesh Ranganathan Copy Share Image
Time has taught me that parents do the best they can with the light they are seeing with. That is what we… — Leslie Jordan Copy Share Image
When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go… — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
The 10 or 20 minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic; there is no adventure I would have traded them for. — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever. — Baal Shem Tov Copy Share Image
My parents were really encouraging of me doing theater, but the one thing they did do was say, 'You're not allowed to… — Beanie Feldstein Copy Share Image
My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had... so he sent me to a girls school. — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
