“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
Love your mother no matter what you go through and no matter how much you argue with her because in the end,… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be memorized for everyone. I want to stay real,endless and inchangeable for my parents, kids and their descendants.” — Alexander Zalan Copy Share Image
My father was a black, working-class man who arrived here with no money in his pocket from Nigeria; my mum came from… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
“Spirituality means to me living the ordinary life extraordinarily well. As the old-church father said, 'The glory of God is a human… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
I have taken my friends' bikes for rides, but my parents never allowed me to get one for myself, as they think… — Taapsee Pannu Copy Share Image
I would say that my parents were intermittently proud of me. They couldn't hang onto it, you know? It would come and… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
I actually didn't enjoy being a child particularly at all even though I had nice parents in a comfortable place to live.… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I loved being the center of attention and making plays, but I knew the reality of being an actor because I had… — Camila Morrone Copy Share Image
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Egypt.mother of civilization, dreaming herself through the centuries. Dreaming us all, her children: those who stay and work for her and complain… — Ahdaf Soueif Copy Share Image
My father took me to see Hank Williams on December 14th, 1952. I was two years and four months of age. And… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
We must not forget that these men and women who file through the narrow gates at Ellis Island, hopeful, confused, with bundles… — Walter Weyl Copy Share Image
“Glory went to look in on her father. He lay on his right side, his face composed, intent on sleep. His hair… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
My parents lovingly passed down the lessons of their lives so that my sister, Jana, and I may also teach our children… — Mark Schlereth Copy Share Image
My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
I think for every parent, they know their kids better than anybody else, and they have to just trust their own instincts. — Rob Reiner Copy Share Image
I know I've had a charmed experience of being a parent, with healthy kids, a helpful partner, access to good day care,… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd get married to someone from the film industry. I still remember telling my parents that I want to… — Nazriya Nazim Copy Share Image
Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of different lives. I was adopted, I grew up in Nebraska, and then I went to Northwestern... Then… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
A Western woman is not her brother's or her father's property. She's just herself. She can choose her own lifestyle. But in… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
My mother is mocking me about wearing 20lb ankle weights and a medicine ball while jumping that and telling to stop messing… — MrCountry Copy Share Image
Being the son of a father who works so hard, I always wanted to be able take a lot of load off… — Romeo Miller Copy Share Image
It was a very scary place to be. I don't think any mother or father would like to have their five year… — Saroo Brierley Copy Share Image
My parents taught me about the mistakes that they made. At the end of the day, it worked out pretty good for… — Carlos Correa Copy Share Image
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
My father wasn't present, so my older brother felt like a father. He was only two years older than me so that… — Saint Jhn Copy Share Image
Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies. — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
I don't consult anyone - not my mother, not my father, anyone - about my work. And I must add that neither… — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
“In life or death situations, my father has only been there once for me. So I'd like to tell him thanks for… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
It's particularly important as parents in our conversations with our daughters and our sons to consider ideas intimate justice when we talk… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
Her father lov'd me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There's this thing where Asian parents force you to play an instrument at an early age, but god forbid you like it… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother. — Ofra Haza Copy Share Image
Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
My father initiated me to the Hanuman Chalisa and my mother to the rituals and community feelings of Durga Puja. I still… — Priyanshu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
