My parents were really loving, open people to be around. I don't remember them ever telling me this profession is difficult. There… — Rachel Keller Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the… — Thomas Bowdler Copy Share Image
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I think, when I started to become successful in the movie business, my mother was very, very worried. She thought no one… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
A Mother's love is something that no one can explain, It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain, It… — Helen Steiner Rice Copy Share Image
Growing up with a bold feminist in my mother, I witnessed her march magnificently from mini to maxi, fashions so obviously linked… — Esther McVey Copy Share Image
Where did you go?" "To the end of the driveway," my mother says. "I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Suppose it were offered to the father of three children to take his choice whether two should be received into heaven and… — Thomas Allin Copy Share Image
I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet,… — Rachel Corrie Copy Share Image
“No wonder marriages used to hold up better. Sherman's parents and their friends had all had plenty of servants, and the servants… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
There seems to be a hole in the culture where mothers went. Then, when their kids went off to school or stopped… — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
“The snowmen stood in bunches, in families, and the breeze generated by the car snatched at their striped scarves. Snowmen fathers and… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Whatever character our theology may ascribe to him, in reality God is the infinite ideal of Man, towards whom men move in… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
There's a case in Baton Rouge, haunting me, where a mother left her twelve-year-old daughter to be babysat (every day for months)… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
“Daddy, are you going to yell at us some more today?' Neary gazed down into her clear, guileless eyes. That was how… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“She was not, herself, hugely in favor of motherhood in general. Obviously it was necessary, but it wasn't exactly difficult . Even… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
My father was short for a man, with a child's plaything for a name - Spinner. He had flawless dark brown skin… — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
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I don't think being the only child of a single parent helped. I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I grew up with a fashion-obsessed mother and an older sister, so there was a lot of fashion in my house. The… — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
“Adam’s mother ran the farm, bore Adam, and still had time to embrace a primitive theosophy. She felt that her husband would… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Klaus Mann saw very clearly how different was his own (more liberated) form of homosexuality from the same-sex attractions of his father… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
My father had a friend who actually had a hollow-body bass guitar and didn't work through an amp, but because it was… — Robert Trujillo Copy Share Image
“He did not understand her. They were not the same. The garage, the trial, the old man with his head in his… — Kelly Braffet Copy Share Image
The average American of today is intellectually so far removed from his forbears that instead of regarding government with apprehension, he is… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
At the age of six, I declared that I wanted to be an astronaut. My mother thought that was just fine, as… — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
“You are not a heretic, Dalinar Kholin. You are a king, a Radiant, and a father. You are a man with complicated… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“Your mother hollers that you’re going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and… — Emmy Laybourne Copy Share Image
“He jerked the door open, ignored Leo’s suddenly furious growl and stomped back to the observation room. As he pushed through the… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
Why can't my parents understand me. Please mom don't you see. When I was little you told me that I could be… — Darrin McManus Copy Share Image
“Further, our heavenly Father, we come before Thee now washed in the blood, wearing the snow white robe of Christ's righteousness, and… — B. Aguilera Copy Share Image
I don't sleep much. Five to six, I'd say. You could argue that people, as they get older, sleep less - probably… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60… — Raquel Welch Copy Share Image
My father and his eight siblings grew up in the kind of poverty that Americans don't like to talk about unless a… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
For a party of the left to win, people have to have believe that government, the state, can be on their side.… — Jess Phillips Copy Share Image
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My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have… — Haley Barbour Copy Share Image
After going to war against the U.N.'s expressed wishes, the U.S. is now admitting it needs the U.N.'s help. It's the geopolitical… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
