I don’t smoke, although it looks fantastic in films. But I light matches on those thinking blank nights when I crawl my… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
“Where have you been, Theodora?," Mrs Goodman asked. "Walking, Mother." "And whom did you see?" Mrs Goodman flung her grammar like a… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
I don't mind being a grandfather; I've been a mother for so many years. You just can't believe what it's like being… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
“Mother,” said Ramona urgently. This time she stepped into the hall. “Unless we get a ladder (Go back to your room, Ramona)… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
I would say my relationship with my father has had a bigger impact on me than I knew. Even with the things… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
The 'New Testament', now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“My father says--used to say-- that there is power in self-sacrifice. I turn the gun in my hands and press it into… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
For my parents, leaving the close social quarters of Abilene was like getting out of jail. They were not true West Texans;… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
“Addictions are just symptoms of underlying issues, and in my view Nikki self-medicated the emotional pain of his childhood, and being away… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“Religion, for Father Pavel, involved no escape from the natural into the supernatural, no repudiation of this world for the sake of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The world is always ending for someone. It’s a good line. I give it to the father of the child. He says… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Abhed, my father had called heredity-"indivisible." There is an old trope in popular culture of the "crazy genius," a mind split between… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“I don’t think you do,’ said Father Brown, with simplicity. ‘You say this thing was done by spiritual powers. What spiritual powers?… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Love is not an equation, as your father once wanted me to believe. It's not a contract, and it's not a happy… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Some of these parents out here need to start raising their kids right. A mother should not have a daughter and be… — Deshawn Branch Copy Share Image
My mother gave me an Oscar de la Renta Gone with the Wind ballgown dress. I've never had a place to wear… — Elizabeth Jagger Copy Share Image
If you work at an insurance company that sells premiums you wouldn't even sell to your mother, how happy would you feel… — Paul Polman Copy Share Image
“The world is full of instructions and advice on how to mother, in bookstores, in academia, on the playgrounds, in the media.… — Mia Fontaine Copy Share Image
'Birds of a Feather' is on Netflix, and it did big for me. For me, it was a trial and error thing.… — Zaytoven Copy Share Image
My parents are brilliant, and they've never been anything other than supportive. But my mum, when I told them that I changed… — Rebecca Root Copy Share Image
“Although I was an imaginative child, prone to nightmares, I had persuaded my parents to take me to Madame Tussauds waxworks in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and… — Cicely Tyson Copy Share Image
Oh, my God. I want to be a mother, and I anticipate loving my children quite fiercely. I think about it all… — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's because my father's from Argentina, that I'm the son of an immigrant, I don't know if its… — Mark Leibovich Copy Share Image
“Almost every situation has a silver lining. Ask any kid what the best part about having divorced parents is and most of… — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
“It is winter now, and the roses are blooming again, their petals bright against the snow. My father died last April; my… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
My parents have raised me with a sense of what's really important and have given me decent values, and I'm comfortable, but… — Adrien Brody Copy Share Image
“You are not our mother," Ren spat. That was one mask Ondrakja had never tried to wear: She was their knot leader,… — M. A. Carrick Copy Share Image
I have had my share of choices and temptations, too; I would not lie about that. And I would also like to… — Karan Patel Copy Share Image
In the show, we have recreated two sketches that my dad had, or pieces that my dad had developed. One that he… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
When my father left us, my mother went back to school immediately. She went to school in the day while we were… — Ginni Rometty Copy Share Image
“Because so much of the needy mother's energies go into her own suffering, she has little left over for her children's needs.… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
“I think we owe it to our children to share our wisdom. If we share our wisdom for the purpose of changing… — Daniel Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The director of the institute where I was working apologized about these young, enthusiastic researchers when the World Bank visited because he… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“And I saw just the other day, in Mentor, Ohio, where a father told the story of his 8-year-old daughter, whose long… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“You sound just like my parents. That is just exactly what my ignorant Christian parents would say. Just, if it doesn’t fit… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit. "No… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
