And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
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The time-use studies also show that employed women spend as much time as nonworking women in direct interactions with their children. Employed… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Mum N Dad... Jazakallah for the Islamic upbringing, Teaching me to refrain from sinning, Showing me right from wrong, Tarbiyyah provided all… — Unknown:p Copy Share Image
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In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
My father was dead by the time I became a writer, and he would have had a heart attack if he had… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
“A nutritive centre, anatomically considered, is merely a cell, the nucleus of which is the permanent source of successive broods of young… — John Goodsir Copy Share Image
“An eternal life is a life that one lives according to his or her decree to ultimately be a fine human being,… — Anthony Pan Copy Share Image
“I have come to a conclusion.” Lydia tried to stifle a yawn. “Have you, indeed?” “Yes. I have decided that I do… — Cindy Anstey Copy Share Image
Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and… — Priscilla Ahn Copy Share Image
My father has always prayed that his words would reflect God's standard of truth as the basis to claim, 'I have given… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
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My father could be very strict, but very fair. His father was the same. We all respected my grandfather; he was the… — Azzedine Alaia Copy Share Image
While we tend to equate motherhood solely with maternity, in the Lord’s language, the word 'mother' has layers of meaning...Mothe rhood is… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
“Something, someone, cut off her head, yanked out her tongue. My mother is a middle-aged woman, a middle-class woman, a woman of… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
Mothers are the rocks of our families and a foundation in our communities. In gratitude for their generous love, patient counsel, and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Nothing trains and teaches so powerfully as love. Love attracts. it does not coerce. If the aim of parents is to teach… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
My parents were educated in the Turkish system and went straight from high school to medical school; my mom, who had skipped… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Consider the power of love. I remember a mother I met once as I made a professional house call. This woman was… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
I began making music at the age of four. According to my mother, once I just sat down at the piano and… — Ramin Djawadi Copy Share Image
After all of this, first as a man and a Serb, then as a father, brother and son, and only then as… — Dragan Cavic Copy Share Image
While my mother tried to stem my truancy, it would be a complete stranger - an Army Officer in the Special Forces… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
I don't have the best family life. I'm not going to have a sob story and be like, my parents abandoned me,… — Constance Wu Copy Share Image
... if we say that the Father is the origin of the Son and greater than the Son, we do not suggest… — Pope Clement I Copy Share Image
Before I proposed to my now-wife, I was understandably nervous. My father suggested that I take stock of all of my experiences… — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
Ultimately, mayonnaise and aioli are brothers from the same mother. Both are emulsions of oil and water, which just means that the… — Sohla El-Waylly Copy Share Image
“I listen while my brothers-in-law and father talk college football, as always, the chatter loops around to Notre Dame, and will the… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
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I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Please know that your Father in Heaven loves you and so does His Only Begotten Son. When they speak to you--and They… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
“the phantom of the man-who-would-understand, the lost brother, the twin --- for him did we leave our mothers, deny our sisters, over… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some fathers and sons don't get along that well when they're younger because they can't find a way to reach each other,… — Braylon Edwards Copy Share Image
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