“This man was a rogue, not because circumstances forced him to be a criminal but because he was born that way. He… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
“I believe I met a girl in the rain, who had lost her mother's earrings. And I killed her. Now I stand… — Rebecca Maizel Copy Share Image
“Old Father Timothy offers this advice to his younger readers, included for free in the price of this memoir: conduct your life… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
On the Russian revolutionaries:To leave your parents, faithful and loyal subjects of the Emperor, to leave your profession, to desist from having… — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy Copy Share Image
“O crowned by God with thorns and pain! Mother of Christ! O mystic wife! my heart is weary of this life And… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry you don't like coming back here," her mother often said, to cap whatever petty dust-up they'd had. How could Emily… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
“In the heat of an argument, my mother once told me, "Someday you can go to a therapist and tell him all… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
My parents were extraordinarily focused on education. It was the topic of every dinner conversation, is are you number one, are you… — Michelle Rhee Copy Share Image
The place you have to start to be any good at this, at acting, is with yourself. Everything is inside of you,… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
I've never written for anybody else. For me, it was a challenge. I write for me. I don't write for anybody else.… — Teddy Pendergrass Copy Share Image
“How much do you know about each other?” was Father Johnson’s final question of the day. Marlboro Man and I looked at… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Well, when I was five, I wanted my mother to let me go around and around inside a dryer with the clothes,”… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“In fact, all three are so readily respectful and nice to my mother that I feel bad about how I go around… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“I’ve alway been struck by how little adults understand children, even their own fathers and mothers. Nothing should be kept from children… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Heavenly Father, thank You so much for Your grace. Your forgiveness is SO good that I struggle with believing it at times.… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
“The Kodiak of Atlanta was brave and powerful and the closest thing to a father Curran had. He also had an uncanny… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
“At night, when he is sure his father is sleeping, he sticks the phonograph needle in a rubber eraser and holds the… — Lydia Peelle Copy Share Image
Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
Don't be fearful about the journey ahead; don't worry about where you are going or how you are going to get there.… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
all through my childhood, my father kept from me the knowledge that the daily papers printed daily box scores, allowing me to… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“During that time, the world seemed completely unforgiving. I was a single father at age twenty-six, divorced after a meaningless marriage that… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
I first came into the radar of the U.S. intelligence when I received a call from my cousin Mahfouz. It was 1999.… — Mohamedou Ould Slahi Copy Share Image
“She hasn't cried once. SHe doesn't understand that Margaret is dead. At that age, they can't fully understand the concept of death.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“The dream that we are our fathers. I walked to the Brod, 41 without knowing why, and looked into my reflection in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“If you build a society in which children honor their parents, your society will long survive. And the corollary is: a society… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I always tell people, if a young girl read "Beloved" as her first novel, she'd have to kill either herself or her… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
If you just got enough expertise and enough special techniques and read up enough, then you could shape a child into the… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
My mother, Mary, has been a guiding force for as long as I can remember through the examples she's set as a… — Richelieu Dennis Copy Share Image
“the worst thing that could happen to a colored child in the South was for a parent to hear that a child… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
“Why don’t you want to see your mom? Did she burn your dolls in a sacrificial fire? Read your e-mail?” “She wants… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have. We choose our friends and spouses at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm white. I have privileges as a parent that many others don't. Of not only teaching but expecting my daughter to stand… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
“She felt as if she had somehow failed him and herself by allowing his mother’s behavior to upset her. She should be… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
As important as the father is in the life of a child, even he must take second place to mother during the… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
“If I were dying when I should've, say in the late sixties, when I thought my head would explode with howling misery,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“But in the parent department, he had won the lottery. So, he'd always known that when he finally told them, they'd make… — John Corey Whaley Copy Share Image
Therefore, as we strive to become as the Father is and as Jesus is, we are to become more gracious and merciful,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“It started off very underprivileged, but got more affluent.' Amis suddenly smiles to himself, remembering a moment with his father. 'I remember… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
