“What if the preacher or father’s saying ‘Someone here’s lost and hopeless’ was tantamount to those Sun-Times horoscopes that are specially designed… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Helda's been trying to impress me with the embroidery on the sheets. One more minute and I thought I might use them… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“(Mma Ramotswe thinking about what her father taught her…) “Having the right approach to life was a great gift in this life….Do… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Adoptive parents are taking on enormous responsibility, both emotionally and financially. Quite frankly, they need as much disclosure as possible about the… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“After the Locker Room Incident, again irrelevant to present circumstances, my father hung a leather punching bag in our basement and taught… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
“Mother had told me her favorite story about a little Protestant lady who, on being told that the candle at the high… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
“His father, who had rebelled early against his Scots Presbyterian upbringing and declared himself an “intellectual agnostic”—or had it been “agnostic intellectual”?—had… — Deborah Crombie Copy Share Image
My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Wrong' training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“They carry their past in them as though safekeeping it for someone else. Very often they look at me and say, poor… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Copy Share Image
There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
“My father used to say that when he was growing up the water was clear and there were tons of fireflies everywhere...… — Fuyumi Soryo Copy Share Image
My father and uncles would often tell me that I was going to become a hero because somebody or the other was… — Sunny Singh Copy Share Image
“My father used to tease me at the table by implying that “cold Claire” had brought in the draft. I had three… — Marina Keegan Copy Share Image
The radical left is doing everything they can to destroy the moral fiber of America. They want to do away with the… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been married?" "Nope. I was close once." "You were engaged?" "No, but I came close to thinking about it."… — Rachel Gibson Copy Share Image
Every parent just wants their child to be happy and to protect them. I should be the happiest I have ever been… — Paddy McGuinness Copy Share Image
I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
“No doubt Richard's father, like my mother, had once held his infant son in his arms, looked into the eyes of his… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one… — John Irving Copy Share Image
Time is an illusion. Look at mother nature. The wind blows when it pleases and the trees grow when they see fit… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn't play catch, even though I was an… — Charlie Rose Copy Share Image
“As parents who make every effort we can to raise our children in loving security, we do not need to feel more… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Who will kiss you? Who will rock you to sleep?" His voice was slow, drowsy. "You never did," I said, trying to… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
... our government is heading in the direction of violent revenge, with the prospect of sons, daughters, parents, friends in distant lands… — Orlando Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“laughter filling that end of the ward, overflowing, one bringing a chair for Eleanora, another a cup of coffee, marveling that at… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, acquainting them with the principal historical… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. You are connected to your child and to all… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
It was all that stuff about taking your parents' car when you're 13, sneaking booze into rock shows and ditching school with… — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
Mindful parenting is the hardest job on the planet, but it's also one that has the potential for the deepest kinds of… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were… — Evander Holyfield Copy Share Image
We had a hoop in our backyard. My dad, my mother, my brother played, just playing around. I picked up a basketball… — Lauri Markkanen Copy Share Image
My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
“Frequently I go to conferences and listen to speakers decry the absent father as somehow a new phenomenon. Though their recriminations against… — Michael Gurian Copy Share Image
