Cupid and my Campaspe play'd At cards for kisses - Cupid paid: He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, His mother's doves,… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My mother says I must not pass Too near the glass; She is afraid that I will see A little witch that… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
“The world is full of Guses--good-looking boys and girls who've been dealt the best possible genetic hand by parents and grandparents and… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“In this way my mother fell short as a parent, which was something I had to learn to accept because it's how… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
Even when I was very small, my mother treated me like a great novelist. She was like: 'Oh, I'm sitting at the… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It has been…” “Eight days,” Søren supplied. “Eight days since my last confession. Let’s see…… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
“Pavlik denounced his father’s crimes, and when Trofim shouted out, ‘It’s me, your father,’ the boy told the judge: ‘Yes, he used… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
My personality is more like my mother's. She was fiery. She had more of a temper. I always thought she had enough… — Kelvin Sampson Copy Share Image
Like my father, I believe that nonviolence is the antidote to what he called 'the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism.'… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
“im a bitch, im a lover, im a child, im a mother, im a sinner, im a saint, i do not feel… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
“I never wanted to find my birth parents - if one set of parents felt like a misfortune, two sets would be… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on… — Hailey Gates Copy Share Image
It was a struggle for a long time. My parents were rightly cautious, in the sense that they were like, "We want… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
“Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see. Let men have light, let them be pure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
My mother," he said, "has invited us to a ball." Elena pulled a blade from one of the butter-soft forearm sheaths that… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“Anyone watching her would have thought her cold, indifferent, but this was the only way she knew to tackle her deepest troubles,… — Laura L. Sullivan Copy Share Image
I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Thomas Goodwin Jr. wrote of his godly father: In all the violence of [his fever], he discoursed with that strength of faith… — Thomas Goodwin Copy Share Image
I acknowledge myself a unitarian - Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being,… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
“But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Women of the Gallagher Academy, who comes here?" she asked. Just then, every girl at every table (even the newbies) stood and… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
“The father of Ruth van Cleve's child, she reports, is under the protection and care of the Norfolk County Correctional Authority, awaiting… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“French parents think about healthy eating habits the way North American parents think about toilet training, or reading. If your children consistently… — Karen Le Billon Copy Share Image
“was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
“Only after the words were spoken did she realize what she had said. "My sins are all your fault, Brodick, and if… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
God inducts us into the eternal kind of life that flows through himself. He does this first by bringing that life to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Think for a moment of the things you try hardest to conceal. For me, it was my family history—my experience of being… — Esther Fleece Copy Share Image
“This is what you should teach me, how to be like Odysseus—how to love my country, wife and father, and how, even… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Kaushik, what about a picture?” my father suggested. I shook my head. I had left my camera, my father’s old Yashica, at… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“... I think my sister Daphne's obsession with having children has a lot to do with wanting to erase the pain my… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I try to think as little as possible, at least while working. I look at some of my early stories and can… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
Your parents will die before you do, so you'd better make your own life decisions. Your own choices are always good if… — Yoshitaka Amano Copy Share Image
Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it's a whole different thing. You can't even predict it. I've seen women… — Ivana Milicevic Copy Share Image
“A father isn’t the man who plants the seed. A father is a man who provides for a child, a man who… — Susan Denning Copy Share Image
“Even after we grow up, many of us continue to believe that we have little control over our lives. We may see… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
[My father] was a banker. He was the president of the Cambridge Trust Company, the head of the trust department, and he… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image