My mother asks when I will do some theatre, and there is something about getting your 15 minute call. That is what… — Jonas Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Kit, you say your mother hasn't changed, but she has. A hundred times she's changed. It's important to know with adults, thought… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple from Maine, who… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors, and blemishes. But He also sees our value.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“She went to the public school that the three youngest girls attended and in halting English told the teacher that the children… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
To my mum, I owe security in a very insecure young life. We lived in about 10 different places because of my… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the same house I was born in, and I lived there until I left home as an… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
“Later Achilles would play the lyre, as Chiron and I listened. My mother's lyre. He had brought it with him. 'I wish… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they… — Jesus Copy Share Image
This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now… — Geoffrey Rush Copy Share Image
We get caught. How? Not by what we give but by what we expect. We get misery in return for our love:… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“If I'm yelling at you, you know I love you. Because I want your chest to keep going up and down, whether… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
“He thought he would become accustomed to the idea, not yet understanding that it is useless to become accustomed to the loss… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
It was very difficult to go farther than that in the arguments with my father because he would always have a story… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
Anarchism is for liberty, and neither for nor against anything else. Anarchy is the mother of co-operation, yes, just as liberty is… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
“because God knew some fathers would neglect their responsibilities .when He created a woman He didnt use dirt again but he took… — kwanele dee nyembe Copy Share Image
Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
He had the kind of face only a mother could love. If that mother was blind in one eye, and had that… — Colin Mochrie Copy Share Image
“I hope someday she meets just the right man and has babies - a whole passel of babies, more than I could… — Kristina Riggle Copy Share Image
What made me this way was watching my father go through bad employment experiences. When I was 17, and he was 65,… — Tom Golisano Copy Share Image
“Sona looked slightly horrified. “Cordelia has a tendency to throw herself into every situation headlong,” she said to Tessa and Will. “I’m… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Well, I think one of the big things wrong with kids these days, a lot of them don't have a family. A… — Rudy Boesch Copy Share Image
“Poem for My Father You closed the door. I was on the other side, screaming. It was black in your mind. Blacker… — Toi Derricotte Copy Share Image
When we mourn our parents, we mourn the parents we had as well as the ones we never had. With death, all… — Joan M. Drury Copy Share Image
Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I mean, her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was the suffering wife of a man who she could never predict… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
“Ms. Wrack's mother, Mrs. Wrack, had been a mermaid: a proper one who lived on a rock and combed her hair and… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
“What makes you think you have the right to shoot someone?" my father says as he follows me up the path. We… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
I think I got from my father and my mother a sense of morality, of the do's and don't's in society; the… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
Our goal as a parent is to give life to our children's learning--to instruct, to teach, to help them develop self-discipline--an ordering… — Barbara Coloroso Copy Share Image
We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables.… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
“Mother says she can never stay mad at Daddy no matter how hard she tries. And Daddy says, ' Stay mad! You… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Father! My father knows the proper way The nation should be run; He tells us children every day Just what should now… — Edgar Albert Guest Copy Share Image
“An even darker side to the behavior of the needy, victim mother is that she may use her son as a sacrificial… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
My parents had a certain resolve to them that I don't see as so prevalent today. Through good times and bad, they… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
