To have your parents get divorced at a young age, there's a lot of turbulence. We all grew up together, in some… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn't yet know… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
a mother's death also means the loss of the consistent, supportive family system that once supplied her with a secure home base,… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
My mother always taught us that any accomplishment my sisters or I achieve is a 'feather in all our caps.' Kathy, Kim,… — Kyle Richards Copy Share Image
I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I was born in Okinawa, but on a U.S. Army base. And my father is Japanese-American which means that he is second… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
It's not the fledgling birds that are thrown out of the nest by their parents and made to fly; it's the parents… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
“I believe that many modern women, my mother included, carry within them a whole secret New England cemetery, wherein they have quietly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Like most parents we had some kind of issue with each of our children. Two of them struggled getting through school, one… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Oh, of course, there is another meaning, another interesting interpretation of the word 'father,' which insists that my father, though a monster,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“Instead, parents just have to be good enough. They have to provide their kids with stable and predictable rhythms. They need to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Ingeniously as their parents and teachers may attempt to protect the young from being drawn, to their detriment, into the moronic amusement… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“MY FATHER" You know I always had that power, power of words in my pen that could turn my darkest, miserable, unbearable… — Muhammad Talha Copy Share Image
“My daughter has a mother. She is not and never will be yours. You stay the fuck away from her. And if… — Nicole Jacquelyn Copy Share Image
I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely… — Dan Stevens Copy Share Image
“If parents start to fear that monsters may have been let loose in their children's bedrooms, it may be because their children… — Ken Hollings Copy Share Image
I really love Scrabble. I played it with my mother growing up. We took it everywhere with us. We didn't know then… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
After my parents got divorced, I had to go right into public school in the fourth grade. The Steiner school had never… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
“Parents aren't supposed to cry. They're not supposed to have emotions, apart from anger, disappointment and pride. And fatigue. But they're never… — Lili Wilkinson Copy Share Image
What a sublime idea of the infinite might of the great Architect, the Cause of all causes, the Father of all fathers,… — August Weismann Copy Share Image
My parents worked very hard for everything that they got. Their parents worked hard. It's just something that is passed down to… — Clint Dempsey Copy Share Image
“Heavenly Father, though life on earth offers its blessings, nothing compares to the inexpressible delight of being home some day with You.… — Guideposts Copy Share Image
My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn… — Carol Bartz Copy Share Image
“Parents with dependents are somehow thought to count for more. If, for example, there is some scarce resource—a donor kidney perhaps—and of… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
I knew exactly what I wanted to do since I could remember. As a kid, if my friends came round after school… — Hannah John-Kamen Copy Share Image
Arrow! Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and I have always recovered you. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From the vantage point of my warm, comfortable spot on mother earth, I could see off into infinite space and the eternity… — Eric L. Haney Copy Share Image
“Thus the sons of earth now drink in The fire of heaven without danger. And it is our duty, poets, to stand… — Friedrich Hölderlin Copy Share Image
The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of… — Arthur Alfred Lynch Copy Share Image
“It's your storm, and the future of us all depends on you now. So who are you? Sage, an orphan boy who… — Jennifer A. Nielsen Copy Share Image
There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was… — Sally Field Copy Share Image
When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
I have a very strong paternal streak. I'm a born father...I get such enjoyment out of being with children. Now they are… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful experiences our family shared was feeling the love and bond that came to life when my mother… — Yael Cohen Copy Share Image
When I was 7 years old and my father [Pablo Escobar] tells me "my profession is that of a bandido (a bandit)… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
“To a parent, your child wasn’t just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I thought I had a huge crush on a young Canadian photographer who was commissioned to go down to Australia to do… — Deborah Kara Unger Copy Share Image
“THE MOTHER SPARROW take ni iza / ume ni iza to ya / oya suzume Let’s be off to the bamboo, to… — Robert Aitken Copy Share Image
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