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All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
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“Through some happy accident of heredity he had escaped his father's tediousness, while retaining a little of his mother's jolly high spirits… — William Styron Copy Share Image
It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. How the artist captured the light, the details of my mother's dimples, the… — Ellen Schreiber Copy Share Image
When we were young we watched a lot of Premier League and LaLiga games and, for my father, it is a great… — Thomas Partey Copy Share Image
“Seconds later, the female security officer grabbed a pair of my father's shorts from the top of the duffel bag, and emptied… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
I was like any other kid: very normal, I can say. I just was a simple kid that came from a humble… — Miguel Cotto Copy Share Image
“Increasingly, Jung came to see that while his father and his uncles, six of whom were pastors, spoke to him about dogma… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
“In that house I built a bonfire that illuminated the fecund earth around it. And in that split-level my friend Tommy, only… — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
“Listen kid, it’s just you and me now, so let’s help each other out. Always be honest with me, and show me… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
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People that I have known that have been extremely creative, people in the business, they have always been influenced by their mothers.… — Georgia Holt Copy Share Image
Till he's five, a son dotes on his father; at 10, the father represents torture; at 15, he's a pain; at 20,… — Samuthirakani Copy Share Image
My parents have always been supportive. I come from a very simple middle class family, where the upbringing is very traditional. So… — Sobhita Dhulipala Copy Share Image
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“Eden, I had planned to use that information to hold you grandfather overfire. I intended to force him to return what Townsend… — Linda Lee Chaikin Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of people in sports come from - not bad backgrounds, but they have a real story. They've… — Liz Cambage Copy Share Image
Bridge to Terabithia was a book my mother read to my brother and me before we would go to sleep. Well written,… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
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I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would… — Lorraine Bracco Copy Share Image
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My parents are amazing, but when I was like, “Well, I’m going to be an actress,” and they’re all doctors, that wasn’t… — Reshma Shetty Copy Share Image
Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I distinctly remember being very young, sixth grade maybe, and being at a party and hearing the mothers discuss the children. And… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
I know my mother wished she got a fuckin' abortion. She don't even love me like she did when I was younger.… — James Merrow Copy Share Image
A good teacher, after all, wields the authority of a parent with none of the psychological baggage. The best of them are… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
My father built low- and moderate-income housing in Queens and Brooklyn. I learned a lot from him. But I went in a… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close… — David Blankenhorn Copy Share Image
My father volunteered in early 1941, before Pearl Harbor, and became an officer in the U.S. Navy. As I was growing up,… — Chesley Sullenberger Copy Share Image
I'm a medical doctor by training. I'm a physician, not a politician. And I'm in this as a mother on fire. You… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Being a very bad daughter, I never really took time to sit down and listen to my mother's story, and she passed… — Mabel Cheung Copy Share Image
My mom is my role model. Charlie and I have two great sets of parents, but our moms are often the ones… — Meryl Davis Copy Share Image
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