Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
“Picture this: possible boyfriend X takes normal girl versus freak girl, namely me, home to meet his mother. After a handshake, normal… — Ramona Wray Copy Share Image
I'd always wanted to write something about the Korean War because of my heritage. My father lost his brother during the war,… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my parents told me that every time we went to see a play or musical, I would… — Jessica Rothe Copy Share Image
“and they realize it is just the two of them now, when the father has gone and the children are left alone… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“If you can survive and won the battle over other millions of semen deposited alongside with you in your mothers womb, tell… — Godspower Oparaugo Copy Share Image
Ask God for what you want, but you cannot ask if you are not asking for a right thing. When you draw… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
My dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
Children are our most precious resource, but a good parent or parent-like figure are becoming almost extinct. If you are blessed to… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system.… — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
My favorite thing is when I go back and my mother cooks for me. Because it just throws me back the same… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
“Shall I tell you the difference between our Holy Father and ourselves? We see things from a single view-point. He sees things… — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral claims on her heart… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
“And her mother says I’m handsome. That’s really all her mum ever says to me. “ Don’t you look handsome, Simon. ”… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“We need to recognize and acknowledge angry feelings. It will take humility to do this, but if we will get on our… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“Faith has not increased in the world, nor has righteousness, nor obedience to God. What the world needs today is to draw… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world that have disease from their parents, that have… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt.… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
My parents were really strict when I was growing up. When we all went to the theatre to see the first Scary… — Anna Faris Copy Share Image
“He rode well. I'm a good horsewoman, but he was good as I was or maybe better, I don't know. At the… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“We didn't talk about problems, or parents, or automobiles, or ambitions. We talked about life…And the sea was there, forty feet away… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The fault lies not with you” she says this so gently it makes me want to cry. I have never shed a… — Robin LaFevers Copy Share Image
“And before long, the music, the views rushing past the window, my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying,… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Becoming a mother really put me in touch with not just my mortality but also my baby's mortality. You spent nine months… — Zoe Buckman Copy Share Image
I identify with other women because of my gender, and I identify with other women if they are mothers because I'm a… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
When I was 5, my parents split and my mother raised us mostly on her own. Like so many mothers, she worked… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
“If an imaginative boy has a sufficiently rich mother who has intelligence, personal grace, dignity of character without harshness, and a cultivated… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I've lived with someone and probably will again, but I don't want children and I have known that since I was little.… — Carmen Busquets Copy Share Image
She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother,… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
My father, a math professor in Hong Kong, worked as an electrical engineer here. My mother was an art teacher, but once… — Clara Shih Copy Share Image
“Do you think the Devil is real then?” she asked. If God wasn’t up in heaven answering a desperate mother’s prayers then… — Evangeline Ravencraft Copy Share Image
I went to work in a woman's home in Los Angeles as a mother's helper. I worked there about two years. Went… — Georgia Holt Copy Share Image
“My mother, stuck in Two Rivers with a head full of unfulfilled dreams, escaped every chance she got via the Two Rivers… — T. Greenwood Copy Share Image
My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especially short… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
Wolf," said Ran, enunciating it very carefully. "What an unusual name. Did your parents give it to you?" "Does it matter?" said… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
