“people used to tell me that i had beautiful hands told me so often, in fact, that one day i started to… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“I took a final look at my mother’s silhouette in the doorway and tightened my grip on the steering wheel. Hades followed… — Kaitlin Bevis Copy Share Image
When you are the woman upstairs, nobody thinks of you first. Nobody calls you before anyone else, or sends you the first… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“I think, Sir, my potential got a hell of a thumping when I happened to be born where I was born with… — David Logan Copy Share Image
You kids have fun, and be home by Thanksgiving!" our parents would call to us on Halloween night, as we staggered out… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“And then they were at Tristran's old home, where his sister waited for him, and there was a steaming breakfast on the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In the early days of the December that my father was to die, my younger brother brought me the news that I… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of challenging conversations as a parent and it's never easy. I think the main thing is trying to… — Archie Manning Copy Share Image
I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think it's really important as a parent to be present, and I really, really worked hard because my dad struggled with… — Kirk Herbstreit Copy Share Image
“Her mother told her she could grow up to be anything she wanted to be, so she grew up to become the… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
My father had been in the military and he was a weapons specialist, so he had an affinity for weapons but also… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
“My promise to you who pray and serve the Lord cannot be that you will have every blessing you may wish for… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate to have some really great people around me, my fiancee being one, my parents being another. Over the last couple… — Randall Cobb Copy Share Image
It seems that probably Putin's father maintained some connection to the secret police throughout his life. One sign of that is that… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
“I really relate to you,” I said to my dad. “I can tell we’re in the same boat, because I’m rowing.” When… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Children are the product of their parents, and crappy or nonexistent parenting skills load down a child with baggage that’s no fault… — Kimberly Belle Copy Share Image
Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“The rest of the family looked on with a bemusement that, in the case of Rafa’s mother, occasionally gave way to anger.… — Rafael Nadal Copy Share Image
“When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict."… — Kirsten Siggins Copy Share Image
“Just as a snowflake went on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, the pumpkin patch is… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“One of the things Clovis had been most afraid of was being forced to ride. He had seen the horses in the… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
“People in here, People everywhere, they all want to take their own problems, usually created by themselves, and try to pass them… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Parents who obsess about every detail of child-rearing and orchestrate their children's 'resumes' may run themselves ragged while their own personal identities… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
God inspired me, because I was blessed with the knowledge that I wanted to do this. And my mother supported it. She… — Martin Lawrence Copy Share Image
Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Kaffman (2009) described childhood victimization as a "silent epidemic", and Finkelhor, Turner, Ormrod, and Hamby (2010) reported that children are the most… — Christine A. Courtois Copy Share Image
Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they had nine-to-five jobs. In… — Georgia May Jagger Copy Share Image
My father wasn't there the majority of the time. My father, someone who I always honored and looked up to, had been… — Rick Ross Copy Share Image
I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I'm the one who knows about… — Cindy Crawford Copy Share Image
Whenever I've had a problem with any female in this entire game, I will say your name... I'm going to say your… — Remy Ma Copy Share Image
“In its complexity and sensuality, nature invites exploration, direct contact, and experience. But it also inspires a sense of awe, a glimpse… — Kim John Payne Copy Share Image
My father always says, ‘Never trust anyone who has a TV bigger than their bookshelf.’ So I make sure I read. Back… — Emilia Clarke Copy Share Image
“Neil, Wymack called him, even when he looked like this, even with his father's face and his father's eyes and the Moriyamas'… — Nora Sakavic Copy Share Image
“therefore in the last times the Lord has restored us into friendship through His incarnation, having become “the Mediator between God and… — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
Mothers who are strong people, who can pursue a life of their own when it is time to let their children go,… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
“It was a problem that needed squaring away and I squared it away for them. By now it seemed like it was… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
After 50 years of smoking unfiltered cigarettes, my father died, too young, of a massive heart attack. He was 69. It's almost… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
