I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
She got really mad a month ago, because she had e-mailed me a naked picture of herself - which is a nice… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at times.… — Eliza Coupe Copy Share Image
“Anyone who met him today would say, *Soldier. Fighter.* They would want him on their team. As a mother she was willing… — Lea Carpenter Copy Share Image
My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
“Babies of around one year old are often active by day and wake frequently at night, for no obvious reason. Then a… — Naomi Stadlen Copy Share Image
My mother always taught me a lot of important life lessons, and she would always tell me how important it was to… — Lil Yachty Copy Share Image
My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
From my mother came the idea that going down to the sea repaired the spirit. That is where she walked when she… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
I have a stepfather who isn't around just because he wants to be with my mother and sisters. There's more to it.… — Tiffany Darwish Copy Share Image
In my work as a historian and in my relationships as a friend, teacher, wife, and mother, I have come to think… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
My grades put me in about 5,000th place in all of South Korea. If I kept going down that path, I would've… — RM Copy Share Image
I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
No human being should ever have to fear for his own life because of political or religious beliefs. We are all in… — Leonard Peltier 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
I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I've changed in my sympathies since I've become a mother myself. In high school I went through a period where I was… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There's a repression against mothers where we're expected to be full-time workers and pretend we're not mothers, and then expected to be… — Catherine Reitman Copy Share Image
Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
“Clementine was thankful her husband understood his mother so thoroughly. She couldn’t imagine how difficult it would be if Ralph was one… — Tessa Arlen Copy Share Image
My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
To get the best picture of a captured prisoner, you have to get him just as he is captured. The expression he… — Horst Faas Copy Share Image
The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
I've inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father's hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The ashram is Mother's body. Mother's soul is in Her children. Children, all the service done for the ashram, is done for… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“If not for you or your daughter, then for Nicky? Couldn't you do it for Nicky?' I stop breathing. My mother pales.… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
Unlike my mother, my father does not cry quietly. His wails roll out like a wave of pain, and I scramble to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From… — Katharine Graham Copy Share Image
