All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a lot of the… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where… — Omar Dorsey Copy Share Image
“Why," he was saying, "why should one not tolerate this life, since so little suffices to deprive one of it? So little… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
“To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Can you hear me, Father? Can you understand me?” The eyes did not change or move. “I did it,” Cal cried. “I’m… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“ 'And it means naught to you to obey your father's orders? Where is your fealty?' Christian felt his face flush with… — Eli Easton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes during the night I'd look at my poor sleeping mother cruelly crucified there in the American night because of no-money, no-hope-of-money,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
When I was little, my father was one of the biggest names in Hollywood. Suddenly - and how it happened to him… — Jason Robards Copy Share Image
IM tired of all this b.s. I would kill myself if it wasnt for him, I JUST got him back, I'm not… — Broken Soul Copy Share Image
“Shoes. Stranger. Strange. Her mother's shoes. A stranger's shoes. Her mother was a stranger. She was only finding that out now. It… — Chika Unigwe Copy Share Image
“My parents are like younger, urchinlike brothers and sisters whose faces are dirty and who blurt out humiliating things that can neither… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
You must learn to look at people who are angry with you straight in the eye without getting angry back. When children… — Roy Masters Copy Share Image
When you talk with your mother you are one person; when you go to the bank or you're with your girlfriend you… — Roland Møller Copy Share Image
“And you and I know you’re the best thing that ever happened to me, and, yes, that’s an expression, something people say,… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Finally, the New Testament does not teach a separation between life and ministry. Every dimension of your life is a forum for… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“He’s living with artists!” said his mother tearfully to the ambassador. “Oh, leave the boy alone,” said the ambassador. “He’ll soon get… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“If someone seems to have changed from one session to another, make sure you haven’t changed instead.” A warning from his mother,… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
I remember one night, my parents were out at a function of some kind and I had just gotten cable in my… — James Roday Copy Share Image
I am much closer to the Butler side of the family, which is on mother's side, from where I get my middle… — Jason Butler Harner Copy Share Image
Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up… — John Thorn Copy Share Image
But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
Becoming a father increases your capacity for love and your level of patience. It opens up another door in a person -… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“Son, you were your mother's peace. You brought her so much peace and joy from the very first time she held you,… — Courtney Cole Copy Share Image
“His message delivered, Gabriel departed, leaving the chosen Virgin of Nazareth to ponder over her wondrous experience. Mary's promised Son was to… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
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“St. Francis knew the bear to be born formless licked into shape by its mother. So too were pagans licked into shape… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
“I am afraid Luther will not recant, Holy Father,' Cajetan said. 'I looked into his eyes. He would not recant even facing… — Alexander Taylor Copy Share Image
“Her mother, an employee with a state-owned company, is a Serb. Her father, an engineer, is a Muslim, which means that S.… — Slavenka Drakulić Copy Share Image
“ …(my father) would say nothing, And I could not find a silence Among the one hundred Chinese silences That would fit… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Well, well, I call her ‘little’ because her mother’s name is Mary. But, as I was saying, she takes Mary in a… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
They saw that it was a passion of mine from really young... My parents did a good job. They wanted me to… — MNEK Copy Share Image
“Recently, Temple Grandin's mother, Eustacia Cutler, wrote and article that tried to explain why some autistic men seem to have a sexual… — Thomas D. Taylor Copy Share Image
I miss when I was a child & I didn't care what people thought. I miss when I would never reject my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father had a very simple view of life: you don’t get anything for nothing. Everything has to be earned, through work,… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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