“The long-ago days - the days of Mother and Bone and the shed - have become fuzzy and have blended with images… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
“The Catholic Church wasn't just a part of his parents' live, and his grandparents', it ruled their lives. The priests told them… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I've got tapes that I'm so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. I've got a ton of those things… — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
“This one day her mother gave her a basket of wine and cake to take to her grandmother because she was ill.… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“One day a woman went to the saintly Father John Vianney, the Curé of Ars, in France, and said, “My husband has… — Venerable Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
“mingling with the remains of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Father was a good driver and enjoyed driving, but the sight of a female in charge of a vehicle was sometimes too… — Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire Copy Share Image
So say I’m your mom.' 'What?' I said. 'I’m your mom,' he repeated. 'Now tell me you want to quit modeling.' I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and… — Bible Copy Share Image
I can't deny that there's a great privilege in having parents who are established in the field that I'm pursuing. I try… — Zoe Perry Copy Share Image
“Myrnin to Claire: "Claire, there are things to do." "Here, too, and I'm staying here, believe me." Myrnin was silent for a… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Sammy performed the rapid series of operations - which combined elements of the folding of wet laundry, the shoveling of damp ashes,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Adulthood is supposed to be about "a disciplining of a developmentally appropriate insanity". "Adolescents, and their parents who were once adolescents, are… — Phillips Copy Share Image
I was a gymnast when I was younger. My parents put me in gymnastics, and I was actually only good at the… — Josie Loren Copy Share Image
You know, my father used to look at people and he treated everyone with such respect, and he always believed that he… — Jim Nantz Copy Share Image
My mother always told me if I rode a motorcycle with a boy, she'd kill me." ... She couldn't hear him laugh,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“There is nothing glorious about creating life out of passionate penetration. Even the animals can do that. The real glory comes when… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Because the media always serve up heroes and villians, there had to be the terrible mothers, the anti-Madonnas, the hideous counterexamples good… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't, like, extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me.… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When you're whirling free of the mother ship, when you cut your ropes, slip your chain, step off the map, go absent… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
For Dad, the perfect Father's Day would be one in which he didn't even realize that it was Father's Day, because nobody… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Will father be there?" she asked. John turned to her in astonishment. Your father is dead," he replied somberly. "Why should he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I can turn into a coyote," I said. "My mom tells me I must get it from my father." Calvin's jaw dropped,… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“The essential impact of life's loneliness crushed his beginning-to-tremble body. Mother was alone, too. She could not look to the sanctity of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In 1958, my father graduated from secondary school as the highest-achieving student in the state of Kansas, earning a five-year scholarship to… — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
“What should we read next?” Bernadette asked. “Pride and Prejudice is my favorite. So let’s do that,” Sylvia said. Are you sure,… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“Nothing‟s going to change, Jamie had said that day, but I‟d known even then this wasn‟t true. My mother had always been… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Happy Days was about a family... although the show was shot in the 70s, it was about a family in the 50s.… — Tom Bosley Copy Share Image
“The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life—if indeed we can conceive… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Education ought everywhere to be religious education. At the same time, parents are farther bound to employ no instructors who will not… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
Ive got tapes that Im so thankful that my father made - old reel-to-reel tapes. Ive got a ton of those things… — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
“I want my girls to see their relationship with me as a place of refuge, a place they can retreat to for… — Hilary Flower Copy Share Image
People want it to be red, like blood. It's kind of funny. When I used to throw meat into the audience, I'd… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
