“He’s [Eli's] a lot like his father, Cyrus. He’s big and he’s strong and basically has an entire army of scary men… — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“I have two choices: attend my sister's dinner party or tie a plastic sack around my mother's head until she runs out… — Alex Adams Copy Share Image
“Most of the best programmers I know are also very fluent in their mother's tongue, and typically in other languages as well.” — Kevlin Henney Copy Share Image
I feel fortunate to have a huge family that is beyond race, creed, culture, and have a Father who shepherds us all.… — Lecrae Copy Share Image
I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina. — Chris Hughes Copy Share Image
My parents were lovers of books, and they raised us in a manner that viewed freedom and subversion as indispensable. — Leila Slimani Copy Share Image
Father Time is whether you're an athlete or not an athlete. Father Time is always around. I think I'm just special. — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
“I tell him about ... Jack and Annabel, smart and ready and I'm wondering where all that smart comes from and I… — Steven Herrick Copy Share Image
“The 1960s was motivated by repudiation of the old way and the quest for a new way. “Liberation” now came to mean… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
I know that in the territory I grew up in I was a foreigner, since my father - who's German - is… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
One thing I did have under my belt was, my mother lost her mother when she was 11. She mourned her mother… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“It’s the parents who respond to their children’s setbacks with interest and treat them as opportunities for learning who are transmitting a… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
“I know what’s coming you see. I know no one beats these odds and I know it’s a matter of getting used… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I always hated being used in my father's sermons, shrunk to a symbol to illustrate some larger… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“I am who I am firstly because of genetics, and, running a very close second, because of choices: ones my parents made,… — John Barrowman Copy Share Image
You can shoot off some sperm and fertilize an egg but that dam sure dont make you a father, especially when you… — J Mom Copy Share Image
There are secrets everywhere. I think everyone's parents have secrets. You just have to know where to look for them. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“mother into leaving twelve and a half million dollars to the Foundation of Being. And not a damned thing to the only… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
“Father's world was unsparing. Nothing good came free, even love. You paid for all things, and if you were poor, suffering was… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“In the Narcisstic parent’s eyes, they do no wrong nor do they feel they should be held accountable for the bad and… — Katherine Childress Copy Share Image
Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows. — Lorna Luft Copy Share Image
But I understand that relationship; I understand how the mother-in-law, daughter-in-law relationship has so many conflicts because it's so forced. — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
“they knew that what they hoped for from the operation was to safeguard their daughters’ chastity, because upon that chastity depended the… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art. — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
We lived on a farm outside a town of about 900 people. My father was the principal of the elementary school. It… — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
Children won't just love to read. Children learn what they live, parents are responsible for instilling that in them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I was in a show choir. I can't sing or dance to save my life, but I was very passionate. People said… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“It is agreed that 'girls take more bringing up' than boys: what that really means is that girls must be more relentlessly… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
“If not to shape me into a better man; a better husband, a better father, a better son, a better brother, a… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“If, because of my schooling, I had grown culturally separated from my parents, my education finally had given me ways of speaking… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Love between man and woman is unstable, but the beautiful love that springs from companionship of children and parents lasts until the… — R.L. Alsaker Copy Share Image
When I look in the mirror, I also see a mother and a wife and someone I am proud to be. I… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
I was very good in school, and my parents really would have really liked me to go to college. Instead, I went… — Daniel Bryan Copy Share Image
My father, my mother, and then my father was always on top of me - 'Keep your nose clean. Do you love… — Paul Anka Copy Share Image
One of the reasons we judge each other so harshly in this world of parenting is because... we perceive anyone else who's… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image