“Sometimes, just to see what was happening, my father would drive to the airport…. Before my birth, during the “Roaring 20’s” Newark… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for one thing,… — John Randolph Copy Share Image
“At night she runs her fingertips over her father’s model: the bell tower, the display windows. She imagines Jules Verne’s characters walking… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I often accompanied my father. I really liked riding with him on his bicycle on Saturdays. He was very fond of fishing.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
My father grew up very conservative, and he really had set expectations for what boys and girls were supposed to be like.… — Nicole Maines Copy Share Image
I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. My mother's battled depression, so… — Dorothy Hamill Copy Share Image
“Pommes de Terre” The plow; the raw September earth; the massive-haunched and mighty-hoofed old bay clomping and farting down the furrow; Father… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“For some parents, having children meant full absolution from any future mistakes. My father wouldn't permit himself to be wrong. He shifted… — Amber Dermont Copy Share Image
In America we tell our parents to bring their child home and put him or her in a crib; as they get… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Stop complaining about not having a date for valentine's day. think of all the people who don't have moms for mother's day… — Katrina Buiel Copy Share Image
“I want you to read ‘God Sees the Truth, but Waits,’ ” said Mother. “Tolstoy writes about a man, wrongly accused of… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
In my time, I've gotten the chance to play a few different people who are younger and have been rejected by their… — Charlie Plummer Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Southwest Bronx. Father an accountant, mother a schoolteacher. Brother was six years older, which explains why I… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
My parents are professors; they're intellectual. I spent a lot of time reading books. To me, everyone always looks like they do… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
“some like to imagine a cosmic mother watching through a spray of stars, mouthing 'yes, yes' as we toddle towards the light,… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Ah man. I remember the days of lying to my mother about a boy. Once I had a boy hidden in the… — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
“The image of you putting a condom on a banana to teach me about gay sex is forever ingrained in my head.'… — T.J. Klune Copy Share Image
Blood doesn't make you family. Hell, an only child can bleed. It's the sharing of pain that makes you family. 'Cause, you… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
“But he did allow himself to be persuaded, otherwise he would have been ostracized. And perhaps more of us thought as he… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“When I think of how much this world has suffered; when I think of how long our fathers were slaves, of how… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My mother was raised very, very strict Catholic in the Midwest. There was so much fear and intimidation [in the faith]. So,… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Latino kids are not rejected by their parents for being Latino, nor are most Muslims disowned by their parents for being Muslims,… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“The Savior’s was a life of service. When we serve our neighbor, we help those who are in need. In the process… — José L. Alonso Copy Share Image
I remember getting notified that I won an award, and I gloated up a storm to my mother, and I was so… — Lindsay Mendez Copy Share Image
Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
“Why, that is nothing: for I tell you, father, I am as peremptory as she proud-minded; And where two raging fires meet… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Still, this moment belongs to the two of them, Mom and this handsome stranger. He reaches the passenger side door and stares… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
I was an only child and grew up in York where my parents ran a surgical supplies shop. When I say I… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all --… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“As for you, yes, your mother doesn’t understand you, and your temper scares her. However, the only reason she is so nervous… — Bry Ann Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, unlike when my parents grew up, you can't turn social media off. It's not like you can go home and avoid… — Andrea Pino Copy Share Image
God the Father was there before man invented time, then God the Father created Jesus, God the Son, the Spiritual Technology Power… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“And when Rambo whispered to me, assuring me of my nearest death, I was relieved at my parents' absence, for my death… — Rawi Hage Copy Share Image
“Bustanai now had two wives, one Jewish and one Persian. However, the Persian wife, as a prisoner of war, was technically a… — Harry Freedman Copy Share Image
“Wesley remembered his mother as a horrible cook who would load up his plate with food he loathed and insist he eat… — Ellyn Satter Copy Share Image
'A Daddy is not defined as the man, that conceived the child,but rather the man that extends his hands and time to… — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But… — Cody Linley Copy Share Image
![“My mother was raised very, very strict Catholic in the Midwest. There was so much fear and intimidation [in the faith]. So, growing up, I was always looking for my connection. I've found myself praying before meals, before bed; there's always been this gratitude for things that are bigger than me.” quote by Alicia Keys](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/0d4/alicia-keys-1094_bed_my-mother-was-raised-very-very-strict-ca_527015.jpg)
