If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses,… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
“When he mentioned family, I could only think of my father, my real father, the Long Island janitor with the impenetrable accent… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
When the door shuts another opens. He that would struggle with the world, and bear up in adversity, ought still to resolve… — Samuel Palmer Copy Share Image
My father has acted in over 700 films. My mother acted in one film, 'Kismat with Mithun Chakraborty,' in which my father… — Shraddha Kapoor Copy Share Image
My mother was very wary at first. And now she's come around 180 degrees. She's, like, one of my biggest fans now.… — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“Not long after our final lesson, on one of our Sundays at the lake, my father and I were walking along the… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I… — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
“Dale's family is like that. Let the Law come within twenty yards of them, and every male over the age of six--uncles,… — Sheila Turnage Copy Share Image
Parents ought to feel more comfortable about the care of their children than some experts would seem to permit. If children were… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Growing up, my parents were Roman Catholic - strict Catholics - from New Orleans. I understood the idea in the principle of… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
“Have you ever seen it in your parents? That moment when they become people? I think you have. It sneaks up on… — Francesca Zappia Copy Share Image
“For a society that will tinker with any “natural” process—birth, death, aging, noses, or chicken pox—this clinging to the old-fashioned “man and… — Avital Norman Nathman Copy Share Image
My parents were nonmaterialistic. They believed that money without knowledge was worthless, that education tempered with religion was the way to climb… — James McBride Copy Share Image
“Breast-fed babies of macrobiotic mothers may be getting lower levels of vitamin B12, calcium, and magnesium, according to some research, which may… — Chris Kresser Copy Share Image
You tell God the Father it was a kindness you done. I know you hurtin' and worryin', I can feel it on… — John Coffey Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
“It’s a mistake to believe that they (parents) are responsible for their children’s best future. This responsibility is on their children, and… — Lukasz Laniecki Copy Share Image
I would say basically the commonplace observation that kids aren't going to earn as much as their parents is now is a… — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
You will always have a special connection with the woman who had your child. Only she might not have the special feelings… — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king,… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Scriabin, as you know, is a mystic composer. His music is supersensuous, superromantic, and supermysterious. Everything is super; it is all a… — Vladimir Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Before I lost my father, I never understood the rituals surrounding funerals: the wake, the service itself, the reception afterward,the dinners prepared… — Wendy Webb Copy Share Image
“But for a mother who was submissive to the degree my mother was, it was OK to kill girls. For a father… — Souad Copy Share Image
What I mostly do is take the script, analyse the hell out of it, see what's in there, see what kind of… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
My mother was not a show business mother but I saw plenty of those mothers. If the kid didn't get the audition,… — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
“In the name of Jesus”, you are invoking the integrity of the giver - God. Every time you say, “In Jesus name”,… — David O. Oyedepo Copy Share Image
It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down… — John Green Copy Share Image
Crisis or transition of any kind reminds us of what matters most. In the routine of life, we often take our families-our… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
“Every one of our sons leaves home at some point. They become men who can return to help us mothers in ways… — Meg Meeker Md Copy Share Image
When I started thinking about plans to avenge [my father], I realized I was only going to become someone worse than him,… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
One of the things my mother taught me when I was a child was just keep your eye on the prize and… — Cathy Hughes Copy Share Image
like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Parents are, of course, most important in shaping their children's lives, but teachers are critically important as well. Who among us doesn't… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
I loathed my first term boarding at Bryanston school in Dorset. I hated being away from home; I think I had my… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
“There will be other lives. There will be other lives for nervous boys with sweaty palms, for bittersweet fumblings in the backseats… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
One of the important things to learn about parenting is that the more you worry about a child, the less the child… — Charlotte Sophia Kasl Copy Share Image