“Until that morning when we all went to the riverbank, I still believed Mother would take Leah, not me. Leah who, even… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“My father was dead, my mother was dead, I would need for a while to watch for mines, but I would still… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
“The child is brought up to know its social duties by means of a system of love-rewards and punishments, and in this… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
My family are very supportive and always have been. They weren't the kind of parents that pushed me into it. I know… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
You don't realize that if you stop looking backwards craving the love and acceptance which you didn't receive from your parents, then… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father, Until it be according unto mine? But, no, Lord, no, that never… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
“I go to church, Father,” she replied. “Anna Ivanovna is not my mother, nor is her madness my business. Just as my… — Katherine Arden Copy Share Image
Father and Mother had told their own little lies very well, and I realized immediately that the Gerrisens didn't know a thing.… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship.… — Tarsem Singh Copy Share Image
“My mother always wanted to live near the water," she said. "She said it's the one thing that brings us all together.… — Megan Miranda Copy Share Image
“My mother's suffering grew into as symbol in my mind, gathering to itself all the poverty, the ignorance, the helplessness; the painful,… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“We are given no choices in life - we must rely on our fathers or guardians to make them for us. And… — Robin LaFevers Copy Share Image
Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Feminism means finally that we renounce our obedience to the fathers and recognise that the world they have described is not the… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
You can raise good children in single parent households, and many of you perhaps here today come from that type of environment.… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
“Right then, he thanked his mother for the coldness she'd taught him; for the clarity it could bring, for the protection it… — Ais Copy Share Image
I come from a great family and I was raised by wonderful parents. There is no question that I was given a… — Abby Huntsman Copy Share Image
Normal people, fear the day their parents die. Screwed up people, fear that their parents are going to live forever. Showing up… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
“Don Fabrizio remembered a conversation with Father Pirrone some months before in the sunlit observatory. What the Jesuit had predicted had come… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
I'm always like, 'I can't believe I sound like my mother.' I remember running out of the house telling, 'Put your shoes… — Eileen Davidson Copy Share Image
“Farther from the sun, a father and son. The soft moon chasing after, the sun running away; a lunacy of circles that… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My parents came from an environment where everyone knew that the way to be successful was to get a great education, and… — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
Mother is such a simple word, But to me theres meaning seldom heard. For everything I am today, My mothers love showed… — Dix Copy Share Image
“French moms often ask me where I plan to deliver, but never how. They don’t seem to care. In France, the way… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“My father had died when I was young, before I learned that there was anything stronger than he was. I'd been operating… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Witnessing a mother's slow physical decline can be the equivalent of of experiencing long-term trauma. The daughter's feelings of helplessness, anger, and… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've overcome a lot - sexual abuse, death of a loved one, bad parents and experienced life. My nature is such I… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Papa is a preferable mode of address,' observed Mrs General. 'Father is rather vulgar, my dear. The word Papa, besides, gives a… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It took more strength and hard work than I would've believed myself capable of, but with God's grace and strength, I managed… — Eddie Guerrero Copy Share Image
“This faculty is mother wit, the creative power through which man is capable of recognising likenesses and making them himself. We see… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
“Her mother’s voice was coming from the house’s single shared bathroom, and when Blue got there, she found her mother, Calla, and… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were… — Boyle Roche Copy Share Image
With one or two children at home, I feel that parents concentrate too much on them and hence children lose touch with… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
My own life values were shaped in great part by my mother, who instigated women's clubs in my village. Women were able… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
