“If you think of your own mother to be the only true mother in the world and thereby start belittling people from… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Philip Galanes has fashioned a novel both bleak and funny about a young man's struggle to sort out his troubled love: the… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place; But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
My mother and my father taught me to look at the actual problem, not the face of it, not the veneer of… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
My mother would do roast pork, which was my all-time favorite from her. And my dad would cook pork cutlets. Nothing fancy.… — Paul Wahlberg Copy Share Image
“Someone kills herself on your land, your mother goes to jail, you go to jail, you take a beating from your cousin,… — Alex A. King Copy Share Image
“Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don't… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes… — Zoey Deutch Copy Share Image
Friends started saying, "Oh, don't come. No vengas. It's dangerous for us, and we live here." Then there's also the issue, if… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think sometimes it's hard, parent's expectations, wanting to be seen by the people in your family and feeling that you can't… — Mary Wiseman Copy Share Image
“It is often said, mainly by the 'no-contests', that although there is no positive evidence for the existence of God, nor is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
What does it mean to a successful woman today? Does it mean you have to be a mother? If you are a… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came… — Jay Rock Copy Share Image
“If my father discovered my secret, that for some time now I have been foiling his efforts to have the hart, I… — Martine Leavitt Copy Share Image
As the proud son of immigrants from Mexico, I watched my parents work resiliently hard for 40 years, my father as a… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
“When at a crossroads, my father was fond of saying “go with your gut.” “Intuition,” he said, “always has our best interests… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
“I believe in Supreme Being, a Creator, whoever he may be, it's of no importance to me, who put us here on… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Yes, there is no denying it, any longer, it is not you who are dead, but all the others. So you get… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“It was easier with Mother--always had been--less complicated, less treacherous. I didn't have to be on my guard so much. I didn't… — Khaled Hosseini And The Mountains Echoed Copy Share Image
“Kids are big winners in the new paradigm, because of the emphasis on shaping a life that works for the family as… — Anne Bogel Copy Share Image
My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life's unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her… — Matt Lauer Copy Share Image
“To be a good mother, a woman is supposed to devote herself entirely to her children (and often a dependent and childlike… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
“My mother took one of the sunflowers from me and placed it over Pumpkin’s grave. She folded her hands over her stomach… — Heather Babcock Copy Share Image
“I arrested some bad doers when I was on the cops, some very bad doers – one was a mother who killed… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Going to your set with the headphones on in the middle of the night so that your parents don't know what you're… — Jam Master Jay Copy Share Image
My father was a country music singer and a motion picture actor, Tex Ritter, and I sort of had a normal upbringing,… — John Ritter Copy Share Image
I was in an adolescent psychology class at Citadel when the guy said, if you had a mother who was beaten, there's… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
“The operation would be in a week...I didn't know if I would survive. How I longed to go back to reading! There… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
That one woman is both mother and virgin, not in spirit only but even in body. In spirit she is mother, not… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
As a mother, the one thing that always goes through your head is, You're never enough. You never can be enough -… — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
My parents always complain that I forget to tell them that I'm on certain things. And they're right. I quite frequently forget… — John Cho Copy Share Image
“Now our father lived in a world where we didn’t belong, with a needy girlfriend who didn’t look much older than Henri,… — Jessica Taylor Copy Share Image
I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother… — Karen Finerman Copy Share Image
“The arrangement of chapters 40—66 is not accidental. “The Book of Consolation” is divided into three sections; each focuses on a different… — Warren W. Wiersbe Copy Share Image
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“When porn stars call it a day and head home with bruised and bloodied bodies, some of us attempt to have normal… — Shelley Lubben Copy Share Image
I truly have a village supporting me. My son has godmothers, godfathers, grandparents and so many others in his life who love… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“Imagine for a moment that I live right here, was born here, that my parents always have had a shop here, and… — Tomasz Różycki Copy Share Image
“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be named is not the eternal name.… — Laozi Copy Share Image