In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole… — Padma Lakshmi Copy Share Image
Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Harmony glanced to her left, and my gaze followed hers to the living room, where my aunt had died, my cousin had… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“Wait a second, Carlie. You're not telling me you're letting Aunt Charlotte help you find a man for Clara? Are you serious?… — Lisa Smartt Copy Share Image
Don’t talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. “It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.” “I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra.… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Aunt Anne's lips quirked up in a smile. "Life is not a neat equation to be solved," she said. "It's messy and… — Heather Vogel Frederick Copy Share Image
My aunt was a fashion model and I happened to go to her agency with her, one day, when I was five.… — Ellar Coltrane Copy Share Image
I have an aunt who believed strongly that teaching kids that Shakespeare is 'hard' is wrong, so she handed me 'Hamlet' when… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
No, what Great Aunt Winifred was suffering from was the persecution every happily single woman suffers: the predictable social condemnation of her… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
There was a time when I could walk down the street, Hollywood Boulevard or Beverly Drive, and somebody would come up to… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I felt like I was an outsider. I think what happened to me made me develop this street sense of watching people… — Tobey Maguire Copy Share Image
Not only my parents but the whole family was involved in the resistance - my grandfather and grandmother, my uncles and aunts,… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our most basic institution of family desperately needs help and support from the extended family and the public institutions that surround us.… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
“You will not be able to shelter her forever,” my aunt insists. “What will happen when you are gone someday, and all… — Laurie Forest Copy Share Image
I've been, I think, able to stay grounded in such a crazy business, and I attribute that a lot to my family,… — Debbie Gibson Copy Share Image
I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America's obesity statistics. Personally, I love… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“She made another sweeping gesture that somehow went wrong because she knocked over the coffee pot and I immediately wrote down six… — Patrick Dennis Copy Share Image
“It seemed strange that someone as old as Aunt Sylvia would talk about growing up. In a way I'm not sure i… — Betty Miles Copy Share Image
When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want.… — Nicholas Samstag Copy Share Image
We stood there, the three of us, our jaws firmly planted on the floor. Aunt Lil recovered first. She nudged me with… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“Quin took on the air of someone who has just realized it's time for the yearly visit to the spinster great-aunt in… — Amy Fecteau Copy Share Image
That's enough, and I have a ministry as a neighbor as well. A ministry as a friend and a ministry as an… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Was she telling you to stay away from me?" I asked. He paused, then said, "Yeah." He squeezed my hand out of… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
You named them: hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons. I called them: cousins, aunts, pops, moms. To you? Hoodlums, crackheads, gunmens. To me? Just… — Ka Copy Share Image
I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could… — Cristin Milioti Copy Share Image
You have to get autistic kids out and expose them to things, but do this without any surprises, so they know what… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group… — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
“Aunt Helen Beck had many intentions about her death. She was about being dead the way some people are about being British… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
My aunt got me interested in journalism - she found an old typewriter, had it worked over, put it on the dining… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
Saw him where?" "While I was sitting outside with one of my half aunts." This seemed to satisfy Ronan was well, because… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
People around me die. They drop like flies. I've gone through life leaving a trail of dead bodies behind me. My mother… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
My Aunt Erna was smuggled out of Nazi Germany in 1939, alive, in a coffin with a spider plant at her feet.… — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
