“Most of us are perfect mothers as we love our children the most,but isn't this too natural.?..Worth are those, who are not… — AISHA RAHEEL Copy Share Image
My parents, Romanian immigrants, struggled to provide me a better life than the ones they had left in their homeland. They worked… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
Speaking of birthdays, our firstborn [recently turned 2]. As parents sometimes fondly do, we reminisced a bit about his early days on… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
After my father had seen me in five or six things, he said, Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent… — Dermot Mulroney Copy Share Image
“It was my mother who tucked him in and told him that there exists a sort of love in the world that… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
When my mother died, we had the coffin at home. Like, old-school - you have the coffin at home so all the… — Tricky Copy Share Image
“They had pulled me from the hemorrhaging, dying body of my mother and turned me over to the care of the man… — Gwenn Wright Copy Share Image
“If I have become my father, then I shall have my father's blade. Thorn is my dragon, and a thorn he shall… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
“Dads. It’s time to tell our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to show our kids that we love them.… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
“Go on, just come out with it, whatever it is.” She braced herself against the counter. Peter glanced down at the tile… — Deborah Blake Copy Share Image
My father was a TV scriptwriter. He would perform his dialogue out loud, while my mum transcribed it at the typewriter. So… — Sarah Lancashire Copy Share Image
My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite exotic mix, which… — Jamie Cullum Copy Share Image
“I refer to the awesome experience of Joseph Smith when he beheld God the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ, in the… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“When I was five and Sarah seven, my mother went on a trip. She was gone from our home in Rochester, New… — Katie Hafner Copy Share Image
One of the greatest challenges I've faced as a mother-especially in these anxious, winner-takes-all times-is the need to resist the urge to… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
Parents who are stressed or disturbed will have more difficulty in meeting their children's needs. Parents who have little support--from friends, relatives,… — Sheila Kamerman Copy Share Image
“You buy so little and ask for even less, which makes me want to spoil you. That’s not how I grew up,… — N.D. Jones Copy Share Image
I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in… — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
I think we all have something in our life's experience that makes us feel different. It's whether we have a gay parent… — Amy Richards Copy Share Image
And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa,… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
When I came home my parents were listening to Pakistani Qawwali music, like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, they're listening to music from… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
Giving consistent effort in the little things in day-to-day life leads to true greatness. Specifically, it is the thousands of little deeds… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
As secretary of education, a parent, and a former teacher and principal, I've seen that no matter a parent's political leaning, their… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. My mother was a single mom, putting my three sisters through college,… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, a lot of my parents' friends were in the music business. In the late '60s and early… — Slash Copy Share Image
“The old man had been stoking and sipping at his pipe for the last fifteen minutes as they awaited the prisoner. The… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
My parents took me to that I think is just one of those near-perfect comedies is Young Frankenstein. Gene Wilder and Mel… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
“Yes, her childlessness was a fugue in itself, a flight- this was the habitual theme she was trying now to resist- a… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“James Tallmadge of New York was the first to try to address this issue by limiting slavery in Missouri, and the Tallmadge… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
Every freak has a mother. When I met Marilyn Manson I was struck by how nice he was. People are rarely as… — Boy George Copy Share Image
“He and Onno had once come to the conclusion that you had to decide for yourself whether after your death you wanted… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
Kids not only understand [a dark story] but appreciate it … Because in the real world there's fear, and dark things happen… — America Ferrera Copy Share Image
I was pretty much a single-father for most of my daughter India's life. Looking back, were there things I could've done better?… — Eric Benet Copy Share Image
My father, Dennis Popham, was a very handsome, talented artist, and as my mother always reminds me, 'someone who had wonderful style.'… — Emilia Wickstead Copy Share Image
I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York.… — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
“How did your mother die?” asked Delk. “Car accident,” Katie replied, gazing out over the water. “She’d been to mass. A tire… — Suzanne Supplee Copy Share Image
My mother didn't get home until about seven most nights and, yes, there was a sense of being very alone after school.… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
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![“Kids not only understand [a dark story] but appreciate it … Because in the real world there's fear, and dark things happen no matter how young you are. People lose parents, people lose friends … There's darkness in the world. So I think when kids are talked to in that way, they appreciate it…” quote by America Ferrera](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/803/america-ferrera-9449_appreciate_kids-not-only-understand-a-dark-story-bu_1968106.jpg)
