“But are his needs any more shocking than the needs of any other animals and men? Are his deeds more outrageous than… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
I don't see things the way my parents do. They can look at a tree and see something amazing, whereas I just… — Robin Van Persie Copy Share Image
“You want more water, Aisling? You need more water, yes? I saw you use the water I bring you earlier. It is… — Katie MacAlister Copy Share Image
“As a child, I was told by my parents and teachers that if I didn't have what I wanted, I had to… — Eleyne-Mari Sharp Copy Share Image
How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the… — Joel Salatin Copy Share Image
My father was a food lover and a deadbeat dad, and maybe a connection between good food and bad dads was forged… — J. R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
Three great ways to lose a lover: Talk to him the way your mother talked to your father. Berate him in public… — Perry Brass Copy Share Image
I love to hug my children. I love to tell them I love them every day before they leave for school or… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
“Secondly, It evidences his blessedness also, as it intimates that this knowledge is above any that flesh and blood can reveal. “This… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
"The earth is so beautiful. We are beautiful also. We can allow ourselves to walk mindfully, touching the earth, our wonderful mother,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[My father] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“You off then, Da?” she asked. “Aye. Too old for all this killing.” And to prove that, her father turned and brought… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
“Now I’m five foot eleven and a half inches—as tall as my mom and a good two inches taller than my dad.… — Gennifer Choldenko Copy Share Image
I go around with my books so much and I love to perform on stage, to remind everybody that the lights are… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can… — Charlie LeDuff Copy Share Image
A mother has far greater influence on her children than anyone else, and she must realize that every word she speaks, every… — Nathan Eldon Tanner Copy Share Image
Julius Sharpe and his wife are extremely loving parents, and because I follow them on Instagram, I always see them, you know,… — Will Sasso Copy Share Image
“When his father told him about his alarm at having forgotten even the most impressive happenings of his childhood, Aureliano explained his… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Thus the connection of the Father in the Son, and of the Son in the Paraclete, produces three coherent Persons, who are… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
There is my father whispering in my ear, Be still still still. And yet you change everything. What was the marsh like,… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books.… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“Right about here will do,” I decided. I cast a magelight to illuminate the place. The first faint glow of dawn was… — Terry Mancour Copy Share Image
“It was as bad as the summer that her mother had taken the training wheels off Coraline's bicycle;but then, back then, in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I talked my parents into sending me to Roedean at 16. I had this idea that if I could get into Cambridge,… — Lucy Griffiths Copy Share Image
I knew I just loved comedy, and I think it was my parents who initially brought up the notion of me trying… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
The picture of Mother Teresa that I remember from my childhood is of a short, sari-wearing woman scurrying down a red gravel… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“What a dolt my father sends me for weaponry,” Paul intoned. “This doltish Gurney Halleck has forgotten the first lesson for a… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up, by these… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
My mother told me that life isn't always about pleasing yourself and that sometimes you have to do things for the sole… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized… — Bible Copy Share Image
To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
If I had to give advice about parents, it would be this: Value your relationships with them. Those relationships are what you… — Jim Thome Copy Share Image
All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit… — Richard H. Davis Copy Share Image
Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“Cairn Stone This is the rock he lifted to lay upon a cairn in a high place. This rock, warmed by the… — Claudia Putnam Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so difficult to arrive at as the nature and personality of one's parents. Death, about which so much mystery… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
“I guess there was always some ‘’me’’ inside that small and, later, somewhat bigger shell around which ‘’everything’’ was happening. Inside that… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“The effective criticism is the one that focuses on behavior not on the personality. The difference between both realizes it every rational… — Maryam Abdullah Alnaymi Copy Share Image