“...Perhaps you didn't say much about him, mother, but Gerald said lots - dreadful things!' 'Yes,' said the Duchess, 'he said what… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“May I join you?” she asked. Her English was lightly accented with something warm, maybe Spanish or Portuguese. “Please,” I said, standing… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
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“Shane never knew how to address her friends' parents. She wanted to call her Mrs. Eliot's Mom, but knew that the cutesiness… — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
You didn't have to tell a girl with no legs that she, you know, I knew I was different. I was missing… — Jessica Long Copy Share Image
Liberals believe in burning the American flag, urinating on crucifixes, and passing out birth control pills to 11-year-olds without telling their parents… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter whether the bride or the bridegroom writes the letters of thanks for wedding presents provided that these go out… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“The MRI has a repertoire of noises that resemble, in no particular order: a game-show buzzer for a wrong answer, urgent knocking,… — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, we used to play this thing called 'the writing game' with our father. My brother and I… — Owen King Copy Share Image
“Back in my day, we had it all set up. You line up when you die, and you answer for your evil… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
My father would be very concerned about the environment. He'd be disappointed that we have hundreds of thousands and maybe even millions… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
Children who are not encouraged to do, to try, to explore, to master, and to risk failure, often feel helpless and inadequate.… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“Thanks to my mother, I was raised to have a morbid imagination. When I was a child, she often talked about death… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I think I realised there were two communities in Northern Ireland when I was about nine or 10, not because there was… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
“Intelligent? He was more than intelligent. What you two had had everything and nothing to do with intelligence. He was good, and… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you a secret: every time self-doubt crawls in to your skull, grab that mother by the throat and kick… — Tony McFadden Copy Share Image
The good enough mother, owing to her deep empathy with her infant, reflects in her face his feelings; this is why he… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“You don’t mock my mother. You don’t speak of her in anything but the most reverent of tones. I don’t care if… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Born of a noble father and a saintly mother, President Hinckley learned as a young boy the truths of the restored gospel… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in every mother’s life when it becomes very clear that your child is a much better person than… — Melanie Gideon Copy Share Image
“for they are produced whenever there needs to establish itself in the security necessary to its development a vice which Nature herself… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
'Conservative' is a term that resonates differently with people. For us, Tae and I take that as being modest. The easiest way… — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
“A new degree of anger came over him. What did it all matter? What did it matter if the mother talked Polish… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Please, God, my Mother, don't give up until I've taken on the shape that you wish for me, Do this by whatever… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Oh northern mothers wives and sisters, all unconscious of the hour, would to Heaven that I could bear for you the concentrated… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
In 2009, my father wanted me to join politics. I told him, 'Why should I jump into the dirt and grime of… — Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy Copy Share Image
You suck, surprising no one!!!! If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!! You're a stupid poo-poo head! I had sexual relations… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
There’s a lot I don’t tell my father when he calls asking after Amy. He wouldn’t understand that she has no interest… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I have seen my father defying societal norms and investing his time and energy on us. He was ridiculed and criticised by… — Geeta Phogat Copy Share Image
Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes… — David Almond Copy Share Image
“I should like to ask you: -- Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“What is your collective GPA for this year?” “Not as high as I'd like it to be.” Freud steepled his fingers in… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“It is important to recognise Woolf ’s acknowledgement of her father’s dually formative influence. The domestic dictator was also an intellectual who… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
The dreams and the visions of the Israeli founding fathers, these were very very ambitious dreams. They were world reformers. They wanted… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The great thing about small children is they're portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary's going… — Elton John Copy Share Image
There is no doubt where the founding fathers stood on this issue. They believed that people of faith should be permitted to… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
There is more racial integration in American life and many more people of color serving as elected officials and corporate leaders than… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
“Often, our misunderstandings about love are born in disruptive family relationships, where someone was either one-up or one-down to an extreme. There… — Tim Clinton Copy Share Image
