Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook,… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
If the Tao could be served up, everyone would serve it up to their lords. If the Tao could be offered, there… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
“You kids come to work and think you deserve to get paid, even though you don’t work. You live on your phones,… — Susan May Copy Share Image
“But her mother was one of those weakest of women who can never forget the beauty they once possessed, or quite believe… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
My childhood was all about going to church, singing in church. And later on, after I got a little older, my mother… — Rudy Ray Moore Copy Share Image
I grew up on a farm and, prior to my father's murder, I wanted to get away from the farm, and away… — Shirley Sherrod Copy Share Image
Contemporary families can be made in many ways. You might step up when relatives or friends are unable to meet their obligation… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
My mother is an actress, and my aunt Margaux was a model. And it's funny, as much as I'm all about I'm… — Dree Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Recently, I watched an episode of The Big Bang Theory. One of the characters, Howard—an astrophysicist—is in space. His new bride, Bernadette,… — Veena Venugopal Copy Share Image
“And it seems to me I can, it seems to me I can open the little wicket gate, and cry, “There is… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The traditional paradigm of parenting has been very hierarchical, the parent knows best and very top down. Conscious parenting topples [this paradigm]… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Yes, actually I was pretty amazed by the amount of stuff my parents put up with while I was living in their… — Rozz Williams Copy Share Image
I live on the margin of just about everything. I'm a marginal person, and I think that is where I've become comfortable.… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Before even getting to David Cameron's father here's a starting-point question about the Panama Papers: how is the desire to break the… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“My mom liked to say that Elsie was part of our family. My parents treated her better than other families who expected… — Kristen Green Copy Share Image
I was the executer of our mother's trust. She asked me to hold onto the house for 10 years and then sell… — Kyle Richards Copy Share Image
“Children in misogynistic households experience tremendous rage, tension, and frustration. When they see their mothers victimized either psychologically or physically, they become… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“She faced him, sitting up very straight in bed, the little wool shawl hunched about her shoulders. “Dirk, are you ever going… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“Mom!” she said, her tone the brightest and cheeriest she could muster. “How are you?” There was a beat of silence before… — A.J. Pine Copy Share Image
The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Living in Beverly Hills has been very exciting, and more than I had expected, but it's also been hard at times being… — Dorit Kemsley Copy Share Image
He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
My mother always told me that no matter how much you dislike a person, when you meet them face to face you… — Larry Flynt Copy Share Image
My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
Indeed, much to my parents' surprise, the first word I spoke in this lifetime was "light." Prior to uttering its name, however,… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
“Dear Heavenly Father, I thank You that You are the God of the breakthrough. Thank You that no matter what it is,… — Glenn Langohr Copy Share Image
I have chosen my own title for my name and it will be that of my mother. I will henceforth be called… — Raghava Lawrence Copy Share Image
What I am most grateful for is that neither of my fathers pushed the relationship; they just let things develop and didn't… — Allegra Huston Copy Share Image
“Out of the woman's great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
I was very depressed when I was 19. I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“They walked down the corridor, the walls of which were covered with baby animals and their mothers or fathers. They passed a… — Kathryn Shay Copy Share Image
“Dad always said a person must have a magnificent reason for writing out his or her Life Story and expecting anyone to… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
I always wince a little bit when I send me to each of my new books. I wince at submitting myself to… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our fathers, as Israel of old,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The table that cannot stand upright, is an insult to the carpenter who makes it. God made us perfectly; so when we… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
My father came to Chennai at the age of 16 from a village in Coimbatore. He was an artist and was clear… — Suriya Copy Share Image
You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image