It's for personal reasons," I say stiffly, which is what my mother had always told me to say about things that had… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
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All these people keep waxing sentimental about how fabulously well I am doing as a mother, how competent I am, but I… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
My curveball is a blessing. My father taught it to me. He felt that it was a pitch he wanted me to… — Gio Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“Those with a dismissive-avoidant attachment style tend to show higher levels of self-reliance, a reduced signaling of need for others, and a… — Glenn Geher Copy Share Image
I ate Bengali food after my parents married and Dad started living with us, in both Willesden and in Delhi for three… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
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I was rejected in school because I didn't look like the big-breasted, beautiful girls. I was awkward and sad. My mother always… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
[Her] work taught me that you could be all the traditional feminine things -- a mother, a lover, a listener, a nurturer… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Now, here's the real beauty of this contorting contradiction. Both working mothers and stay-at-home mothers get to be failures. The ethos of… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“Smalls, my parents' house is pretty big. The odds are more in favor of a burglar sneaking around than your boy-boy. I… — Cole Gibsen Copy Share Image
My parents liked to go dancing, and they encouraged all of us to bring our friends home. My brother had a skiffle… — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
“There is yet another reason why peer-oriented kids are insatiable. In order to reach the turning point, a child must not only… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
Over its 40 years, Muppets on 'Sesame Street' have addressed AIDS, divorce, a parent's deployment overseas, and a death in the family.… — Elizabeth Flock Copy Share Image
Both my parents came with their parents during the revolution in Cuba. Both my parents were born in Cuba. They left everything… — Dominik Garcia-Lorido Copy Share Image
“At what point in her life had she decided she didn’t deserve better than this? It was a startling discovery. The blinders… — Maya Banks Copy Share Image
I found out from my own experience that the best way to involve my daughter, Joanna, in sports is to participate with… — Donna de Varona Copy Share Image
“Babies can be fussy , and the fussiest babies have a body count . Of course , every mother thinks her baby… — Grady Hendrix Copy Share Image
“People ask me, "What’s it feel like, knowing your work will outlive you?" I say—imagine raising a kid. You feed it, teach… — R.P. Gage Copy Share Image
“As Louis Cozolino Ph. D., observes, a consistent theme of adult psychotherapy clients is that they had parents who were not curious… — Peg Streep Copy Share Image
“For if you keep my commandments you shall receive of his fulness, and be glorified in me as I am in the… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
It wasn't rich, it was hard-working, but I give thanks daily for the kind of upbringing I had, and for the values… — Patricia Routledge Copy Share Image
“She’d told Bela that the feeling would ebb but never fully go away. It would form part of her landscape, wherever she… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
For anybody out there... who are parents who are taking care of an elderly parent or an adult child with disabilities, they… — Brian Deese Copy Share Image
If Jesus Christ were to sit down with us and ask for an accounting of our stewardship, I am not sure He… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
“When I was in third grade--the age of many of the boys here--my parents had debated whether or not to buy me… — Eric Greitens Copy Share Image
Fetty Wap is a soldier, father, a mentor, a leader for people that I never thought I'd be a leader for. A… — Fetty Wap Copy Share Image
My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
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My parents would have to put the fire hose on me to get me out of bed, to go to school in… — Jackson Rathbone Copy Share Image
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
“Galadir drew his sword, pointing it at the throat of the mother. «Be quiet! Never! It's just one, the Goddess whom I… — Chiara Cilli Copy Share Image
My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So,… — Ben Elliot Copy Share Image
In my father's time - he was in college during many transitions in the late 1930s - they had great institutional loyalties...… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
“The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,” he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He… — Susan Rowland Copy Share Image
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“I think of my parents. The way my father never failed to bring her gifts from the woods. The way my mother’s… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“I’m not beautiful. My mother—” “I know. Your mother was a knockout, and you’re paper bag ugly... Sorry to upset all those… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image