You always want to break away from your parents, and you always think, 'I'm never going to be like that guy.' What… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
If I wrote a book, I had to be willing at least to talk about some of my struggles, whether in my… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
“he thinks the aldermen’s job is to make decisions and then enforce them. When your father was mayor he said that aldermen… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I don't really see why some of those topical lines have to be crossed to get a point across. I want a… — Brett Young Copy Share Image
“We see the world the way we do — as solid, lasting, and independent — because we’ve been primed to do so… — Andrew Holecek Copy Share Image
My wife and I both grew up with parents who were very young. Her mom was, I think, 17 or 18 when… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
With the football stuff like handling the fame, the attention, my parents definitely helped me with that as far as keeping a… — Patrick Chung Copy Share Image
The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know.… — Bono Copy Share Image
Various Eastern fathers referred to the practice of married priests in their churches, offering each one of us elements for a further… — Angelo Scola Copy Share Image
“My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need.… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is not a matter of feeling superior, of feeling sorry for our parents because they didn't' know any better. It comes… — Gerald Jampolsky Copy Share Image
In our family, at this point,[Sunday School] its not a choice for my kids. It's a duty for us as parents to… — Gretchen Carlson Copy Share Image
All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“Her mother… told Kate that after women got out of lousy marriages, they generally had the good sense to stay away from… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
“I do recall hearing a conversation in our home in Strausberg, between my mother and my father, where my mother sounded very… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“There’s something you don’t understand about me, something you never did. When it comes to you, I’ll do whatever it takes to… — Mia Knight Copy Share Image
“If her mother had broken a promise … if her mother had kept her from Maeve, it had been for a damn… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
I'm not very close to my parents. My stepfather (in my opinion) was very emotionally abusive when I was growing up and… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
Who should have children? Those who are responsible and completely dedicated to the responsibility which is actually a very small percentage of… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“When the mother was delivered into the trader's hands, she said, "You promised to treat me well." To which he replied, "You… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
I used to listen to my dad a lot as a way of trying to be close to him, as well, because… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share Image
“Maybe we don’t really grow up until our parents die, she thought. Maybe her infant memory was forever looking to Zod and… — Donia Bijan Copy Share Image
“I wish your father were alive, and king-in-waiting. And I his right-hand man still. He would be telling me what tasks I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's very hard to describe to people sometimes the way I grew up, because it wasn't like my parents were irresponsible. They… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
My mother, when I married, said you must have separate bathrooms and separate bedrooms. That was the only sure way of keeping… — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
The question eventually must be raised: Is it a criminal offense to take the name of the Lord in vain? When people… — Gary North Copy Share Image
The whole world is conscious. It's just that we become conscious at times, and you become conscious when you lose a parent,… — KRS-One Copy Share Image
In my culture, my mother's sisters are also my mother. And my father's sisters are my mother's, too. So I have many… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
“Hideo," said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subject to another because they have… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There's a really unique relationship between a single parent and their child. Marriages so easily break up. There's kind of this temporary… — Jeremy Sisto Copy Share Image
“By custom, we wield the sword and wear the armor, but who among you does not know a mother, sister, daughter, friend,… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
“Before placing her in her mother's arms, she whispered, as she had at all the other births, hello, little amphibian. Someone had… — Tahmima Anam Copy Share Image
contrary to what many believed, my father was kind and tenderhearted, especially towards his family. His forbidding sternness seemed to melt into… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
As someone who escaped religious persecution in Lebanon and whose parents were kidnapped in Beirut, I fully support the protection of all… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image