My parents said that I was born with a sharp cry and a personality as prickly as an African hedgehog. Even worse,… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
“Can we get on with this?" Father Laggan cried out. "In the name of the Father…" "I'm inviting my aunt Millicent and… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
Only now that I'm a mum can I fully understand the terrible pressure parents feel buying presents for their kids. My mum… — Mel Giedroyc Copy Share Image
“Alberto Ascari says there have been atrocities, Father,” Pino said. “The Nazis have killed priests helping Jews. They’ve pulled them right off… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“His skin like grey bark, his eyes pale as a winter pool, time and age had worn my father to the bone.… — Jamie Wyman Copy Share Image
The first thing you learn is sacrifice and how to keep moving forward in life, helping your parents to put food on… — Angel Di Maria Copy Share Image
Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front… — Jacob Batalon Copy Share Image
“This tradition doesn't exist for Bengalis, naming a son after father or grandfather, a daughter after mother or grandmother. This sign of… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Anyone who has ever been a mother or father and is at all honest knows from experience how difficult it can be… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Most important is the recognition that stepparenting is different from primary parenting. It can be just as satisfying, it can be a… — Claire Berman Copy Share Image
“Noon. In the middle of Knoll Road. In it up to your waist, wearing your father’s old reindeer sweater, your mother’s fur-lined… — Bob Flaherty Copy Share Image
Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
“she whispered. Robb looked at her as if she’d gone mad. “Mother, stay here. I’ll come back as soon as the fire’s… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
I was a small business owner, father, and husband just living out in the suburbs. I kind of had a boring life… — Frank Warren Copy Share Image
When I took over from my father, he came from the Southern Baptist background, and back 40-50 years ago, there was a… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. Dreams fulfilled are imperfect. And, Israel is imperfect, of course it… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
My father used to say the people of Swat and the teachers would continue to educate our children until the last room,… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
You have to be really, really confident in your decision to marry somebody. I don't think my parents were stupid, but I… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
I was still afraid of him, I knew, but in a different way - I was no longer a child, afraid of… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I never wanted to become a CA. My father was keen that I become one because he thought that was the right… — Kumar Mangalam Birla Copy Share Image
“My mother neither encouraged the reading of science fiction nor did she disparage it. She told me later that there was a… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have one. It will not be a pansy heaven or a fragile heaven… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“The telescope destroyed the firmament, did away with the heaven of the New Testament, rendered the ascension of our Lord and the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face… — Susan Sullivan Copy Share Image
I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise… — Randy Castillo Copy Share Image
“Soeur Emmanuelle?” she said very softly, and gently, slowly, laid her hands on her mother’s shoulders, fragile under the white cloth. She… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
“You're interesting when you sleep." He spoke matter-of-factly. "You talk." "No!" I gasped, heat flooding my face all the way to my… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“We want our children to have a childhood that's magical and enriched, but I'll bet that your best childhood memories involve something… — Lenore Skenazy Copy Share Image
“And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
In 'Hardflip,' you have a relationship where the father and son haven't seen each other in 18 years, but they find they're… — John Schneider Copy Share Image
My father was a very fun dad. He was always coaching our soccer sports teams; he made sure that we had activities… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume… — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image
“Peeta,” I say lightly. “You said at the interview you’d had a crush on me forever. When did forever start?” “Oh, let’s… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
