Friedman stumbled in, late to the seminar as usual and reeking of cigar smoke and whiskey. He hadn't read the paper being… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Growing up, I would take out books from the school library and hide them in the hamper. I'd wait until my parents… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
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“Whose team are you on?” I ask him. “I don’t follow you – what do you mean whose team am I on?”… — John A. Passaro Copy Share Image
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You grow up listening to Eminem; your parents don't let you listen to it - you gotta sneak into a car to… — Jon Bellion Copy Share Image
“What kind of trees are those?" I asked. "Heartwood," my father said. "They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
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My father was only born something like 30 years after the Civil War ended, 35 or 40. He was born closer to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
When I was seven or eight, I was bailing out on everything inside. My father's pitching to me in the backyard. He… — Chipper Jones Copy Share Image
I did not have any problem with speaking up because my mother, my family, my grandmother, my aunt - I grew up… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
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It was great to have two parents there because you get the nurturing from your mother and you get the sternness from… — Jerome Bettis Copy Share Image
Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“...What was wrong between Diana and me was that she was too much a mother to me, and as I had had… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
My mother was determined that I was going to leave the farm and do well in life. And she thought with the… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
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“Robot Boy Mr. an Mrs. Smith had a wonderful life. They were a normal, happy husband and wife. One day they got… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Most of us don't have mothers who blazed a trail for us--at least, not all the way. Coming of age before or… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
“I half listened to the plans that were being made now in this lounge between my father and these new friends. I… — Fiona Mozley Copy Share Image
Your Heavenly Father knows that you will make mistakes. He knows that you will stumble-perhaps many times. This saddens Him, but He… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
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“How I wish, how fervently I ache, to take my mother's hand, kiss her check,tell her I love her, and watch her… — M.J. Burke Sr Copy Share Image
Twenty or 30 years ago, certainly when my mother was my age, I'm sure she felt things were pretty over for her.… — Dervla Kirwan Copy Share Image
When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents I understand her, and I love… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
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“A person is loved for the risk he or she takes for someone else, be it a mother, a father, a child,… — Buket Uzuner Copy Share Image
The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was… — Michael Tolkin Copy Share Image
“The practice of self-observation mirrors the way in which a mother observes and attunes to her baby. Self-observation is a method of… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
My own introduction to music came quite early. My father didn't have much of an education, but he was keen for me… — Roger Taylor Copy Share Image
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What is a child, but a piece of the parent enrapt up in another skin? And yet our dearest children are but… — John Flavel Copy Share Image