“The journey of figuring out how to get the cookies from the cookie jar is more adventurous and exciting than your parents… — Jayden Codner Copy Share Image
My parents named me after Uriah the Hittite, one of King David's mighty men in the Old Testament of the Bible, who… — Urijah Faber Copy Share Image
“The answer is that we can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else. We… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“This was the day before Christmas. Quite early in the morning came the great box of which Bertie's mother had spoken in… — Asa Don Dickinson Copy Share Image
“... Mother Nature is punishing us, ..., for our greed and selfishness. We torture her at all hours by iron and wood,… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Remember that country singer on American Songster, the girl whose father only let her order ketchup, mustard, and relish at McDonald’s because… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I still talk to my mom every day and she passed away when I was 28. And I still talk to my… — Mike Babcock Copy Share Image
“With a lump forming in his throat, he thought about all the hopes and dreams that he had for his son. More… — Michelle Sutton Copy Share Image
When I talk to [my kids], I remember my father talking to me, so it's understandable that I would make a film… — Sonia Braga Copy Share Image
My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it… — Ralph Stanley Copy Share Image
I carry in my datebook a piece of paper that my mother copied out for me, from the 1840 Census. Hardy Callaway… — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer.… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
When I think of my mother, I can't help but think of the head-spinning ignorance she endured to marry my dad and… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
'Monsters,' everybody has the thought of monsters in your closet as a kid, and more importantly, the idea of becoming a parent.… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would… — Jose Andres Copy Share Image
My dad's father was a White Star Line trumpet player in the '20s. It shaped the way that I think about music.… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The only reason we decided to formalize it was because Kunal's parents and my mother were very keen on it and it… — Soha Ali Khan Copy Share Image
I know from my own experience as a parent that parents probably teach most powerfully not through their words but through their… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
“What's she crying for now?" Theo wanted to know as Pilar clung to his father and sobbed. "Women wait until it's over… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
We all take Mother's Day seriously and then it's like a month later, a bunch of kids get together and say, "I… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“If I don’t take her back to her wooden walls, she will die.” Hunter met his father’s steady gaze across the leaping… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
This is how youre supposed to feel every day. This is what I should have felt like my whole life! I always… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
People in India like to touch a lot. It's not very nice for any girl to be touched by strangers wherever they… — Preity Zinta Copy Share Image
The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in… — Pindar Copy Share Image
“This watch my father gave me when I entered the Ministry. I would like to give you more. Take it, Huw. It… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
The parent-adolescent relationship is like a partnership in which the senior partner (the parent) has more expertise in many areasbut looks forward… — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
My parent's house, to be honest, is like a snail's disco. It's a fine house but my parents are very eccentric. Also… — Natasia Demetriou Copy Share Image
My parents would drive us to Florida every spring in this big old, rusy Suburban, and we'd collect stuff on the beach… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“She wants to hear all about our day, how long I’ve lived in town, and asks little sideways questions about my parents,… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I wanted to make my parents happy. I'd always say to them, "What do you want me… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
“I asked another friend what it's like being the mother of a black son. "The condition of black life is one of… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with… — William Penn Copy Share Image
People talked about being a parent, or being a mother or a father. We don't talk about "wiving" our husbands or "friending"… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“His father asked Ethan in a raspy voice, “You spend time with your son?” “Much as I can,” he’d answered, but his… — Blake Crouch Copy Share Image