For the first few months, I was a comically inept parent. The first night home from the hospital, I held her bare… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks… — Julian McMahon Copy Share Image
“He heard bombs exploding like fireworks, and as if in a dream his father's face flashed before him, wanting to know what… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
As a Naval officer, I've been all over the world, and one of the foundational lessons I learned was that parents everywhere… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
People that don't know Owen Hart or just know his passing... what a great guy above anything - a family man, father,… — Jeff Jarrett Copy Share Image
I used to just daydream all the time about being in movies, from the age of, like, four onwards. I would sit… — Aneurin Barnard Copy Share Image
Mother Earth is the spirit of the Earth. Amaterasu is the spirit of the Sun, that is, the feminine aspect of the… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
The efforts on the parts of Eastern magazine writers to educate the people of the United States, particularly parents, to the doctrine… — George F. Richards Copy Share Image
“Somewhere, in some shadowy bedroom of a leaf-strewn town, a father bolts the door to a child's room, then steps closer to… — Scott Heim Copy Share Image
“(from chapter 16, "Catacombs Presbyterian Church"): "When is this going to happen? How long do we have to wait? When does construction… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Everything,' his father said, 'comes down to time in the end--to the passing of time, to changing. Ever thought of that? Anything… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Until the day she died, my mother continued to fight for the rights of women. She joined all the women's movements of… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
We forget the gospel when we neglect our adoption and think that we're still just a hired servant. The Father doesn't let… — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“My parents were told by the principal of West Barnstable Elementary School and my teacher that I was a bright boy whose… — Mark Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why did Mother ask you to help me rescue Gelsi?” I asked Leif. “She thought I could assist you in some way.… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
“Once I could see Mom for who she was, and not the mother she had failed to be, I'd be able to… — Rachel Sontag Copy Share Image
“The 1960s was motivated by repudiation of the old way and the quest for a new way. “Liberation” now came to mean… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
In the music business, to survive for so long, you have to be able to cut off from your emotions sometimes. And… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“It’s the parents who respond to their children’s setbacks with interest and treat them as opportunities for learning who are transmitting a… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
I know that in the territory I grew up in I was a foreigner, since my father - who's German - is… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
“Her parents could have named her Aria, or Harmonia, or Tessitura, or a hundred other clever names that would have alluded to… — Adi Rule Copy Share Image
Maybe it's because my uncle and my parents were always very involved with the civil rights movement, so I just grew up… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
“Claire’s cottage wasn’t quite the same layout as his mother’s, but it looked to be the same size. Daniel couldn’t be sure—he’d… — Allie Burke Copy Share Image
“thousands of people have said things about you and you have gathered them. Something your mother said, something your father said, your… — Osho Copy Share Image
“What about me?" I whisper. "Where do I belong?" "With me," my mother and Galen say in unison. They exchange hard glares.… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
My father was a low-budget monster movie maker, so he made classics like 'The Crater Lake Monster.' There were always creatures around.… — Robert Stromberg Copy Share Image
“Her father had once told her that water has a memory; that every rock, every stone, every grain of muddy sediment leaves… — Hazel Gaynor Copy Share Image
“So now she was trying her best to make conversation, but a parent can't leave a child alone for so long and… — Anthony Breznican Copy Share Image
My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his family wasn't there… — Harvey Fierstein Copy Share Image
“Until now travel had always been a fraught affair. Each year until she was sixteen, it had been two weeks fighting with… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“I know what’s coming you see. I know no one beats these odds and I know it’s a matter of getting used… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I always hated being used in my father's sermons, shrunk to a symbol to illustrate some larger… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
We got Arbitron diaries at my house in the 1980s, when the family was down to just my mother and me, and… — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
“I am who I am firstly because of genetics, and, running a very close second, because of choices: ones my parents made,… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
Two guys are sitting on a bar stool. One starts to insult the other one. He screams, I slept with your mother!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've known a lot of very religious people. My mother is very religious, but she was also very - is very private… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image