Sometimes parents squash students' interests because they are afraid of science or math. So they don't participate. You don't have to know… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were in reality… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The Gospel must not be kept hidden because of fear or indifference. It was never meant to be hidden away in private.… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The child should be taught to consider his instructor...superior to the parent in point of authority… The vulgar impression that parents have… — John Swett Copy Share Image
The seal and the constitution, reflects the thinking of the founding fathers that this was to be a nation by white people,… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“I almost feel sorry for that man,” Telys’s mother said one evening as we made camp. “I think he loves you very… — Esther M. Friesner Copy Share Image
Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-esteem. The Game echoes with disturbingly abusive… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
When you spend so much time trying to father well, and failing, and trying again, and hopefully failing better, it's going to… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
When you move around a lot, there are little bits of you from everywhere. I mean, my father's French, and I speak… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Over the years, she [my mother] always encouraged me in the arts. She actually worked at an art museum when we were… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
My mother was largely a housewife until she and my father were divorced. No one in the family read for pleasure -… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
Radley rolled his eyes. He actually rolled his eyes at my father. Alpha of the south-central territory and head of the Territorial… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
“What’s yuh firs’ name? VICARRO: Silva. JAKE: How do you spell it? VICARRO: S-I-L-V-A. JAKE: Silva! Like a silver lining! Ev’ry cloud… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“I have comic-book loving, pop-culture-obsessed parents. The coolest. I’m sure the two Meadows girls and the seven Cobalt children would protest and… — Krista Ritchie Copy Share Image
In my early life my mother tried to create a nurturing environment in which my mind could play. Her big rule was… — Joey Reiman Copy Share Image
I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?... I imagined two people without words, unable to… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wanted. John's like that.… — June Carter Cash Copy Share Image
“When I was twenty they told me to swear loyalty to the King, a person who acts in the capacity because his… — Pitigrilli Copy Share Image
I'm the daughter of immigrants and my parents came to this country with nothing in their pockets and not speaking English and… — Michelle Wu Copy Share Image
The thing that experts agree on is that although divorce is difficult and stressful for kids no matter what, the real harm… — Emily Doskow Copy Share Image
How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think my mother… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I knew I didn't want to pursue an academic career at all, which, of course, my father would have loved me to… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
I guess I was very fortunate; I had a very very, lets put it this way, I had very wonderful upbringing and… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Copy Share Image
My sister and I used to do crazy things when our parents wouldn't buy us fancy things. We really wanted this Calvin… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
My father and I talked every day. He coached me on how to cold-call companies I wanted in our portfolio, how to… — Richard Edelman Copy Share Image
“I remembered how Belinda the Jungle Witch helped us before. But the problem was that she wasn’t around. So, I came to… — Zack Zombie Copy Share Image
“Brenna, Beth, Britt…and Blake. Did your parents stop watching Sesame Street after the letter B and didn’t realize there was more to… — Sarina Bowen Copy Share Image
People without fathers tend to have two predominant characteristics. They tend to believe anything is possible. At the same time there's an… — Bennett Miller Copy Share Image
My parents were opera singers. I didn't want to play opera because I wasn't good enough. I didn't want to play their… — Rick Nielsen Copy Share Image
No matter where you're born in life or what the circumstances are when you're born, like your parents being poor or not… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“the way out the door. It was Tuesday, August 12, 1952. His mother should have been heading to work down at the… — D.M. Pulley Copy Share Image
God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Mrs. (Fanie Lou) Hamer, like her mother, also kept weapons nearby in case she needed them: 'I keep a shotgun in every… — Charles E. Cobb Jr Copy Share Image
“But you knew my mother. She was your neighbor—” “This is an official Clave investigation.” Jace cut her off. “I can always… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image