I can't stand the comfort zone. So many people I know, their parents give them their homes, and they get married and… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
“After all, you can argue – argue until you cry – about what modern, codified misogyny is; but straight-up ungentlemanliness, of the… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
I always wanted to sing, I always loved to sing. As a child I was singing all the time, and my parents… — Mari Boine Copy Share Image
On becoming a mother, I sort of feel like every kid is my kid. I really do get that sense in a… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
No touching Baby Jesus.” “But we’re his parents!” proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born… — Su-chin Pak Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very polite family, and I suppose my parents were both very polite, and from the time I… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
“Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. When you… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“The boy in the tree sobs uncontrollably when I tell him about the Hermit and my mother, yet his eyes light up… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“When I ask French parents what they most want for their children, they say things like "to feel comfortable in their own… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“I imagined the sound of whips on black backs and the roar of the overseer over the cry of mothers being separated… — Linda Leigh Hargrove Copy Share Image
“Drops of rain pattered onto her scarf and her shoulders. “Your mother had red hair,” Brigan said, lightly, as if they didn’t… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
The knowledge that you were beaten and that this, as your parents tell you, was for your own good may well be… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“Much as I love looking at the stars, I never learned to guide by them. I mark my course by people; Xander,… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
My father was only thirty-one when he died of a heart attack, much too young for a father to die and leave… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
“Clary knew what made the parents around her cry, more or less openly: that everything must grow and change and--rather than being… — Marina Endicott Copy Share Image
“Covenant children are like olive plants gathered around the table. This makes parents gardeners. Parents are not given weeds for children who… — Rich Lusk Copy Share Image
My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool.… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Kate stood by that low bed, looking down earnestly on its occupant—that occupant that was now a person, and soon would be—O,… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why?… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“You can have all visits back home be fond experiences, if you get a firm handle on your own struggle for independence… — Wayne W. Dyer Copy Share Image
“i don't know when love became elusive what i know, is that no one i know has it my fathers arms around… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
I think we forget that part of parenthood means having to face and reject or face and embrace a kind of animal… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Thank you," Emerson said, bowing his head and accepting the box with the tender hands of a parent holding a child. "I… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
If I could I would run over every mother fucker who abuses animals, people, kids, I would. I'd run them over once… — Masha Mezz Copy Share Image
Dear God," said Nudge under her breath, "I want real parents. But I want them to want me too. I want them… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
When I was younger I was fat. I was never conscious of it and was content with who I was because I… — Archie Panjabi Copy Share Image
The one thing my mother instilled in me, well both my parents but specifically my mother - I come from a Muslim… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
“There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“The greatest lessons I learned from my father didn't come from lectures or discipline or even time spent together. What has stuck… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrotea letter in the newspapers telling how her… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Janine Chassequet-Smirgel (1988) and other French Freudians, for example, argue that Freud’s phallocentrism was not just wrong, but a motivated error, defending… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
