“But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. And perhaps we are responsible even for… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
There you are!” he shouted at them. “Father has half the castle turned out looking for you.” “Us?” Hadrian asked. “Yes.” Fanen… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“I stayed to spy on them. I heard my mother moaning, and crying out for Chris. Then she surprised me. “Momma, where… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“It is the nightly custom of every good mother after her children are asleep to rummage in their minds and put things… — J.M. Barrie Copy Share Image
I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
“had failed to learn the value of money and how to work for it. And in a Center for a New American… — Richard Bromfield Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
I think my parents, being immigrants, wanted us to try new things. They would never be the ones to be like, 'Just… — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
When you grow up in a family where you have lost a parent, everybody joins together to instil the correct values in… — John Torode Copy Share Image
“If I learned anything from thinking about my father, it's that there is a force in the world that doesn't want us… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
It's difficult for my mum because she doesn't know half of the things that happened. She might think the sun shines out… — Andre Gray Copy Share Image
“The moonlight on the water outside the chamber window throws the reflection of ripples onto the whitewashed ceiling of the room, so… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Know that, as in life, there is much that many have looked upon but few have seen because, as my father told… — Odysseas Elytis Copy Share Image
“They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Every life has a soundtrack. There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent rubbing baby oil on… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My Heavenly Father, forgive me when I fail to give you thanks for the many blessings you have bestowed upon me. Thank… — David Kreger Copy Share Image
There is a lot of parenting that's completely out of your control, but I think we live in an era right now… — Rosemarie DeWitt Copy Share Image
I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store in Queens. It… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“Is there someone with whom you have a broken relationship? A spouse, a parent, a friend? As a follower of Jesus Christ,… — Haddon W. Robinson Copy Share Image
My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
“Peter’s Diary Entry: But my eyes were opened when I saw a mother who loved her child so much that she would… — Spencer C Demetros Copy Share Image
One winter, when I was 12, my older brother Frank (20) said to my father, 'We want you out of the house.… — Joe Torre Copy Share Image
There are people all around us whose lives are masterpieces of service. One thinks of parents working two or three jobs to… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy. I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“When Julius was twenty-five, his mother died of cancer—which Julius grieved over—and shortly afterward his father was swallowed by the bog when… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
“After a week's worth of failed fairy tales—stories that made my eyelids flutter open and not shut—my father tried telling me stories… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
“After that, he said, his father, who had always been neutral about his art, forbade him from taking classes. Even his mother,… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“I have tried everything, Father. I’ve been kind to her. I’ve promised my strong arm will be hers forever into the horizon,… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“To her mind there was nothing of the infinite about Mrs. Penniman; Catherine saw her all at once, as it were, and… — Henry James Copy Share Image
When I was real little my parents raised me on classic rock, so The Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Eric Clapton were what… — Chris Webby Copy Share Image
“Do you not realize that your kids are going to make mistakes, and a lot of them? Do you not realize the… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
When I was young, my father used to say, ‘If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman.… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
“It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether… — Alia Bhatt Copy Share Image
Work ethic is one of the biggest things my father taught me. That man worked like every day, every day, 9 to… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took… — Joey Bishop Copy Share Image