Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I remember a good friend of mine whose father worked at Bethlehem Steel for 40 years with just a high school degree.… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
You left this world already a legend and to me you will always be one and the father of my heavy metal… — Timothy Ashmore Copy Share Image
“My father is a hoarder. I can say that now, and people’s eyes widen in understanding. Maybe they know someone who is… — Kimberly Rae Miller Copy Share Image
My father was a very popular singer and stage actor during his time, in the 1950s. But he didn't take any formal… — K. J. Yesudas Copy Share Image
“Parents stress the importance of learning to their children and carefully monitor their progress. Not infrequently, those children are well ahead of… — Götz Aly Copy Share Image
The challenge for me as a parent of two girls is to establish enough structure in the house so that things don't… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. [. . . ] You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head's in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“With the Mother Earth and Father Sun here to witness I give you my everlasting oath. My body is created of this… — Kazusa Takashima Copy Share Image
I think I'm probably the only person that, when the parents lent me money to make the movie, they wished I had… — John Waters Copy Share Image
My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“After years of watching my parents -I always assumed marriage meant loving someone so much that you were blind to everything and… — H.R. Willaston Copy Share Image
“How, I asked, could I have gone my whole life not knowing about my mother? How could I have not known what… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting.… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if… — Birch Bayh Copy Share Image
My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“Rojer!” his mother cried, stumbling towards the washing trough before falling to her knees. Screaming in pain, she reached back and got… — Peter V. Brett Copy Share Image
“Sometimes paper is only paper," my mothers says. "Words are just words. Ways to capture the real thing. Don't be afraid to… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“As God, Christ, the virgin, the prince of the apostles and the shepherds labored even so must we labor in our callings. God… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share Image
“Sophie, I have to tell your mother about what happened." I suppressed a groan. I'd known this was coming, but I was… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The good thing about kids is they want to be mobile; they want to be running around nonstop. They want to play.… — Brooklyn Decker Copy Share Image
My parents were wonderful people, but there were terrible rows between them, and at times I found the atmosphere at home unbearable.… — Michelle Magorian Copy Share Image
My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility,… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
“For many years in Cuba, nobody spoke of the problem between blacks and whites. It was considered too disagreeable to discuss. But… — Cristina García Copy Share Image
“Extended family is great. If you want to know how extended your family is, just go out and win the lottery. Your… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I don't really see why some of those topical lines have to be crossed to get a point across. I want a… — Brett Young Copy Share Image
“he thinks the aldermen’s job is to make decisions and then enforce them. When your father was mayor he said that aldermen… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
My wife and I both grew up with parents who were very young. Her mom was, I think, 17 or 18 when… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
“We see the world the way we do — as solid, lasting, and independent — because we’ve been primed to do so… — Andrew Holecek Copy Share Image
If I wrote a book, I had to be willing at least to talk about some of my struggles, whether in my… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“This is a little awkward," I said, "but my mother just ran over the rabbit." "Ran over?" "As in roadkill. We're not… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“My father believed all children had work potential, no matter how young they were. Play was okay for town kids, he’d say,… — Lawn Griffiths Copy Share Image
We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
My role relationship to the event will continue to mutate. My relationship to my mother will continue to change as I revise… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image