“You are quarter ghost on your mother’s side. Your heart is a flayed peach in a bone box. Your hair comes away… — Jamaal May Copy Share Image
Shalt thou reign, because thou closest thyself in cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and… — Bible Copy Share Image
“Bad sex. I wondered what exactly did she mean. From my mother I had gathered that the experience could leave you feeling… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
My parents put me in sports when I was 5 years old, and they put my sisters in sports. So that's what… — Gina Prince-Bythewood Copy Share Image
I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Other leaders center on those who are far, designing their programs to bypass parents and reach children whose families are fractured and… — Timothy Paul Jones Copy Share Image
I think I really thought I was a boy until I was ten years old because my parents divorced when I was… — Eliza Dushku Copy Share Image
“At its core, each vocation is a particular, unique instantiation of the father’s summons to the true homeland of the kingdom. The… — Mark Doherty Copy Share Image
“I am sorry to say that Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us — the poet — whispers… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“She contradicted the Freudians and development psychologists by suggesting that we modify our behaviour depending on the environment we are in. Her… — Mikael Krogerus Copy Share Image
My mother had been an incredibly bright kid but her family couldn't afford for her to stay in education. So she lived… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
perhaps I possess a certain Midwestern sensibility that I inherited from my mother and her parents, a sensibility that Warren Buffet seems… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Inside the room it was dark now, the florescent light behind my father flickering so slightly it lit only the most obvious… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
I was raised on T.V. dinners because in those days, they were considered a well-balanced meal. And when I was sick, my… — Lindsay Wagner Copy Share Image
The thing I remember the most was not understanding why, if you were doing the right thing, then why did people want… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
You are born into a dangerous world, there are all sorts of ways in which you could die, and you need to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“If our spiritually dead ones are to be raised, we must first get power with God. The reason we so often fail… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
It was very important, and I felt like music ran through my blood lines, with my father being a deejay and teaching… — Pete Rock Copy Share Image
Fathers are very, very important in building the foundations and self-esteem of children. For me, the way that I was raised, consideration,… — Liv Tyler Copy Share Image
Ulysses is son to Laertes, but he is father to Telemachus, husband to Penelope, lover of Calypso, companion in arms of the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“A man who says that no patriot should attack the [war] until it is over is not worth answering intelligently; he is… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If we could know as intimately as we know our more immediate parents the long line of ancestors through whom the family… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
“It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone you loved… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
My father says that almost the whole world is asleep, everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says… — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
I always told myself I'd never be like my mother if I had a kid, but here I am, the same thing.… — Jo Koy Copy Share Image
First song I write, me go to my mother, and she say, 'Write love songs.' She's one of the oldest, so she's… — Skip Marley Copy Share Image
The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs… Mother has the function of making himsecure in… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Just because you are struggling on a farm or in a factory, doing something against which your whole nature rebels, because there… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“If the devil did not see Mary, it was because her humility shielded her from his eyes. He knew the Woman’s place… — Brian Kennelly Copy Share Image
“How did Ixtel become real for me? The world is full of Ixtels who I can help without hurting my father. Why… — Francisco X. Stork Copy Share Image
There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective -… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After that my favourites changed almost… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“three steps to climb to go to God: the first, which is the nearest to us, and the most suited to our… — Saint Louis De Montfort Copy Share Image
“During Snow White's story, her mother had somehow survived sharing a castle with the Greatest Evil the World Has Ever Known and… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“I am not an advocate for home education, but for Christian home education. You can train a child to think like a… — Douglas W. Phillips Copy Share Image
Youre so ugly, when you were born, the doctor said Wheres the baby? Youre so ugly, when you were born, your parents… — Curly Copy Share Image
You've got a movie where the pro-choice family gives their daughter no choice. The pro-life family murders. What seems to be the… — Ellen Barkin Copy Share Image
My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image