Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Our mothers are our most direct connection to our history and gender. — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
“It happens.” He turned again to the garden. “To the brain, I mean. It’s the drink, naturally. And the hepatic function. But… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
The traditional paradigm of parenting has been very hierarchical, the parent knows best and very top down. Conscious parenting topples [this paradigm]… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Feminists have mocked full-time motherhood as silly and old fashioned. Maybe they're right. I mean, what do moms do really? — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
“You see, here's my theory: Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
“Magnus glared at him out of gold-green eyes. “If I wanted to lie on a couch and complain to someone about my… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Keep telling yourself and others there are no supermoms, there are only wonderful mothers. — Jean Marzollo Copy Share Image
Being a mother is like trying to hold a wolf by the ears,” Gram said. “If you have three or four –or… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to… — James Packer Copy Share Image
I pray to God every night before I go to sleep to let her know I'm safe; kiss my mother on the… — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of… — Alexander Gould Copy Share Image
“We would also have to say goodbye to the joy of watching this next generation soak up the massive quantities of love… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
Despite strict instructions from my mother not to step out of the house, I cycled all the way to Vellore to watch… — Vetrimaaran Copy Share Image
I was nearly 41 when I had my last child. I felt that was late, that I was pushing Mother Nature to… — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
“When my father was growing up inside the Old City of Jerusalem, he and his friends liked to trade desserts after diner.” — Naomi Shibab Nye Copy Share Image
Because of my mother, who gave me definitions, I knew what I was committed to in life. ... I had the most… — Kay Boyle Copy Share Image
Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she’d rather die than go back to a man she didn’t love. — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, from her being on a… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in the late '60s and early '70s, my parents and their friends would play the records of… — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
“He looked down, aimed his father’s old H&R 22-caliber revolver, and took another shot, this time in the head. The boy on… — Rayven T. Hill Copy Share Image
“This is when I forgave my parents. This big secret that was not ready to reveal itself was the reason my parents… — Tabitha Freeman Copy Share Image
I am my father's only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
My mother always said that the strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
“My parents always insulted each other. Mom was a good student and thought school was important. Dad agreed even though he had… — Eddie Huang Copy Share Image
I always saw two sides of life. I saw the dudes who would be the gangsta, big-time guys on the block, but… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I'd… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
To be motherly is a totally different phenomenon. It is something absolutely human; it transcends animality. It has nothing to do with… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have my mother's nose and my father's bone structure, which I've passed on to my children. My eldest daughter and my… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
“if they label you soft, feather weight and white-livered, if the locker room tosses back its sweaty head, and laughs at how… — Eboni Hogan Copy Share Image
I am from a poor background in Portugal. We were medium-down, not down-and-out. My parents felt problems around food in the past… — Carlos Carvalhal Copy Share Image
It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. Or fly… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
“Many persons grow insensibly attached to that which gives them a great deal of trouble, as a mother often loves her sick… — Charles MacKay Copy Share Image