“I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In 1838, Mirabeau B. Lamar, the Second President of the Republic of Texas and the Father of Texas education, declared: 'The cultivated… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
A couple of years before he died, I kissed my father goodbye. He said, 'Son, you haven't kissed me since you were… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
“Funnier still how much faith her parents put in him, considering the fact that Jay would officially be younger than Violet in… — Kimberly Derting Copy Share Image
“They drove farther north like that. In perfect loving antagonism. It occurred to Ted that maybe Marty was like all the red… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister - a near relation, a… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
Being a working mother is not easy, but I think it helps you choose what's important in your life. If I think… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
“Grant liked kids—it was impossible not to like any group so openly enthusiastic about dinosaurs. Grant used to watch kids in museums… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“They don't respect you, they don't respect our flag, they don't respect our King and they don't respect your parents. If you… — Ong Kim Swee Copy Share Image
“It was frighteningly close to what he believed of his father at the worst moments - that he really was the kind… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“My sisters and I stand on the deck, the shale tile cool against the soles of our feet - for a week… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
But the mother was marvellous above all, and worthy of honourable memory: for when she saw her seven sons slain within the… — Bible Copy Share Image
I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
“On her eighteenth birthday, my mother had disposed of a man-eating tiger that had ravaged the villages in the hills north of… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
My father had nine children, and when I had my first, he said, 'None of my kids got up in the middle… — Rosemarie DeWitt Copy Share Image
“...The Arabs I rode herding cattle with your father in the fifties and sixties would do a full day’s work for twenty… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
There is nothing intrinsically better about a child who happily bounces off to school the first day and a child who is… — Ellen Galinsky Copy Share Image
I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I became a high school teacher for many years because it was a very tangible, concrete way where I could make a… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
“After several visits where I refused to speak, this psychiatrist asked me if I would at least agree to stop doing whatever… — Sarah Reid Copy Share Image
“At a certain age our parents offhandedly start telling us things we’ve never heard before, about themselves and their families, their upbringing… — Tim Kreider Copy Share Image
O Sisters, if we would only comprehend the fact that while the Eucharistic Species remain within us, Jesus is there and working… — Magdalena de Pazzi Copy Share Image
“He wills that we take ourselves with great strength to the faith of holy Church and find there our most precious mother… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
“As children, because of our dependency, we experience a sense of being powerless in a world of powerful people. If our home… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“over the long fabric. You are the virgin daughter of a Jewish father, so you have draped your veil over your head… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents,… — Emily Procter Copy Share Image
“I suppose in reality not a leaf goes yellow in autumn without ceasing to care about its sap and making the parent… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“I honestly never once heard them fight. They yelled at us kids all the time, but never at each other. My siblings… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“They’re kids Apollo. Young kids. And they don’t need to know their father has a bed partner.” “I won’t exactly be sharing… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“understanding. The day she and Rand had broken up, her father had spoken with surprising insight: There’s a kind of love that… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
My father has a beautiful, beautiful voice. His father was a pastor of a church. He sang in church. My mother sang… — Deniece Williams Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury's magnificent work, 'The Martian Chronicles.' I had… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“hope you’re right, Mother, because I don’t care how highly you think of her. If she’s like Cansrel I’ll snap her neck.”… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“You don't even have a cross," he said. His beloved was silent. "You don't even have any candles, no face of Christ,… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
I am sure that the experience of growing up in the heart of the working class and learning from my parents, and… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
![“I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my…” quote by C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/ee8/c-s-lewis-121_book_i-am-a-product-of-endless-books-my-fathe_607598.jpg)
