My mother struggled immensely with mental illness, and so did I. She grew up bipolar, but it was never diagnosed nor recognized.… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
“Mother, listen to me. Now's your chance, do you hear? I know that when I start to talk about what I really… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think one of the great primordial fears we have once we become conscious of our aloneness as children is the fear… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I… — John Green Copy Share Image
I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said… — Brooke Burke Copy Share Image
My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. But it was more for me - it was that women of… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
As a teenage daughter hears her sweet mother plead unto the Lord that her daughter will be inspired in the selection of… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
What I discovered with acting is that you step out of your own personal life and you connect with characters that are… — Travis Aaron Wade Copy Share Image
I am very much a woman, but I never consider that I am when I go and make films. I don't check… — Ondi Timoner Copy Share Image
My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably… — Parminder Nagra Copy Share Image
It was love that motivated His self-emptying, that led Him to become a little lower than angels, to be subject to parents,… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
I remember my parents taking me to see 'The Exorcist' in theaters when I was really young. They're Cuban and didn't really… — Guillermo Diaz Copy Share Image
I never stopped being a mother, and I never stopped being an artist. Which is probably why my kids are so creative.… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“We all have stories, just as you do. Ways in which he touched us, helped us, gave us money, sold it to… — Daniel Wallace Copy Share Image
“Perfectionist parents seem to operate under the illusion that if they can just get their children to be perfect, they will be… — Susan Forward Ph.D Copy Share Image
The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate,… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Anybody who has been born into a particular family profession will have a much easier journey than someone who has not. It… — Mohnish Bahl Copy Share Image
“Admitting that this job isn’t always easy doesn’t make somebody a bad mother. At least, it shouldn’t. We’re all on this ride… — Jill Smokler Copy Share Image
“Our failure to keep our children attached to us and to the other adults responsible for them has not only taken away… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“There is a fine line between friendship and parenting, and when that line is crossed, the result is often disastrous. A parent… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“Our Father in heaven" -- I am a child away from home. "Your name be honored as holy"--I am a worshiper. "Your… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“So, I guess people figure it's not as hard to lose your mother when you never got along anyway. But they're wrong.… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“What was that about?' she demanded. 'His mother is practically gushing over you. Not to mention that he's holding your hand like… — Rebecca Donovan Copy Share Image
“But we never stopped believing that somewhere out there, in some stranger's backyard, our mother's rosebush was blossoming madly, wildly, pressing one… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets.… — Red Cloud Copy Share Image
“As a minister of the Lord in whatever way the Lord decides to use you and with the gifts he gives you… — Daniel Friday Danzor Copy Share Image
“We poison ourselves and we poison each other. A cruel remark, the turn of a shoulder, the indifference to someone's pain. I… — Judy Reene Singer Copy Share Image
“Oh, is that right? You know, a lioness will protect her cub by baring her teeth, by roaring, using her claws to… — Steven L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
My family moved - first to Washington, D.C., and then, in the spring of 1975, to Lebanon, where my father worked as… — Greg Kinnear Copy Share Image
I see bundling as a really important step in the journey toward marriage becoming a marriage of personal choice, rather than something… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“Alyosha brought with him something his father had never known before: a complete absence of contempt for him and a consistent kindness,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Birth Matters... It matters because it is the way we all begin our lives outside of our source, our mother's bodies. It's… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Like the Sweetness of Gardenias Mother, you died 15 years ago. pain, a rapier, cut until, finally, there was just peace like… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing… — Dan Byrd Copy Share Image
