“Anne-Marie Costallat, born October 8, 1944. I was beginning high school and masturbating twice a day, curling over it like a dead… — James Salter Copy Share Image
My first Hip Hop concert was at the Apollo at the age of 12. Southpaw's father was interviewing Queen Latifah and Treach… — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
We all, as parents, are laughing at ourselves and helicopter parenting and saying, 'This isn't the way we were parented; we were… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
I once prayed when struggling financially and worried how I was going to be able to assist my parents in their latter… — Phyllis Smith Copy Share Image
The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape… — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
I'm not exactly sure how old the girls are [in Bink & Gollie], but I can pretty much guarantee that their parents… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than… — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
“Pretty sure of yourself, aren't you?" I tease. His joking manner stops suddenly and turns serious. "Charlie, I'm not worried because when… — Heather Gunter Copy Share Image
“Afterward I could not help admiring the discrimination of the host and hostess in the distribution of the children’s presents. The little… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It's still hard for me to think about Sept. 11 sometimes. I'm still angry. It's hard to watch my daughters, Celia and… — LaChanze Copy Share Image
In Frankenstein there is a transfer first of life into death (in the creation and animation of the monster), and then of… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I should’ve been furious, but for some reason I wasn’t. Maybe because I knew he was telling the truth. Maybe because Voron… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“I stand to leave, but my father says, “Wait!” over the red telephone. “Let me just look at you a minute.” He… — Carolee Dean Copy Share Image
What my parents have given to me is not anything that has to do with money or success or anything that society… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
“Love is not enough. It takes courage to grab my father's demon, my own, or - God help me - my child's… — David Lovelace Copy Share Image
My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without… — Aga Khan III Copy Share Image
I talk about the food issue, I'm really coming at it from pre-White House times, when I was a working mother with… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more… — Dana Hill Copy Share Image
Spending most of my time on chess there is not much else I can be much good at but I enjoy spending… — Anish Giri Copy Share Image
“It must be utterly clear to him that I was a fake, not one who belonged at Lynhurst Manor. Up until a… — Joanna Davidson Politano Copy Share Image
Women are now very comfortable to have babies into their late 30s. You can be a father in your 50s. I'm not… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
“Neither parents nor schools are very effective at teaching the young to find pleasure in the right things. Adults, themselves often deluded… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
She was a wonderful mother. She was my best friend. Same for my brother. And it's funny because we didn't grow up… — Sean Hepburn Ferrer Copy Share Image
“The thank-you thing had been drummed into us intensely when we were growing up. We had three great-aunts, on my mother’s side,… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Loser" "Father directed choir. When it paused on a Sunday, he liked to loiter out morning with the girls; then back to… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“When Lee has a certain look on his face, eyes kind of amused, mouth small and tight, he finds himself thinking of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being working class, my parents thought, 'Ian's going to uni, the first in the family,' and I'd do dentistry or accountancy. I… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
“After Dad died, I told myself I wouldn’t be one of those bratty kids who made it difficult for their single parent… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. That was not a blanket… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
“The third time out he concluded that we were hunting cows. That was a day that will live long in memory. Mutt… — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
When people hear my daughter and when they know about her wisdom and maturity, they think that her father must have been… — Ziauddin Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“I'm a working parent and I understand that sometimes you want to have a very productive Saturday to feel that you are… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Child care can almost bankrupt a family, even a two-parent household in which both parents are working. That keeps a parent from… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
While snow the window-panes bedim, The fire curls up a sunny charm, Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim, The flowering ale is… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“Wonder whether Mussolini's mother spanked him too much or too little--you never know, these psychological days. Can distinctly remember spanking Peter, but… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“The two bond over their mutual lack of family ties: Saul from his disownment, Miriam from the car accident that orphaned her… — Myla Goldberg Copy Share Image
All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image