“I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her,… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
My father had the bug. Ever since I can remember walking, he was waking me up at 5 in the morning to… — Dustin Yellin Copy Share Image
In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“Among the people, it is the custom for a new wife to make moccasins for the husband's mother. When the mother accepts… — Stephanie Grace Whitson Copy Share Image
My childhood was lonely. Both my parents were away a lot, working, and the maid basically raised me. And I think that's… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I have the greatest respect for single parents who struggle and sacrifice, trying against almost superhuman odds to hold the family together.… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from her… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“People who have extremely limited knowledge of The Bible or its implications may still choose to classify themselves as Christians on the… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Let go of me or slow down," she demanded as she tried to keep pace with him. He slowed down. "I swear… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
The only thing I know is that no one ever sat in a therapist's or a psychiatrist's room saying, 'My parents just… — James Corden Copy Share Image
“Well,” she says, “I’m a Penobscot Indian on my father’s side. When I was young, we lived on a reservation near Old… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“The Theology of The Holy Trinity has been well established for 1700 years. In my opinion, it is hyper-evident by the New… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father… — Anne Hull Copy Share Image
“A Christian mother's first duty is to soil her child's mind, and she does not neglect it. Her lad grows up to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“And when she one day turns on me and calls me a Bitch in front of Hollister, Give me the strength, Lord,… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-leaf softness that invites… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Going your own way shouldn't stop them from being happy with you." "My brother and my sisters, they're clerks and parents and… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
I try not to judge my characters. If I'm looking at it from the outside, I'd say, 'No, she's not really a… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility,… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
The good thing about kids is they want to be mobile; they want to be running around nonstop. They want to play.… — Brooklyn Decker Copy Share Image
My parents were wonderful people, but there were terrible rows between them, and at times I found the atmosphere at home unbearable.… — Michelle Magorian Copy Share Image
“Extended family is great. If you want to know how extended your family is, just go out and win the lottery. Your… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“For many years in Cuba, nobody spoke of the problem between blacks and whites. It was considered too disagreeable to discuss. But… — Cristina García Copy Share Image
“Rojer!” his mother cried, stumbling towards the washing trough before falling to her knees. Screaming in pain, she reached back and got… — Peter V. Brett Copy Share Image
“Sometimes paper is only paper," my mothers says. "Words are just words. Ways to capture the real thing. Don't be afraid to… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Sophie, I have to tell your mother about what happened." I suppressed a groan. I'd known this was coming, but I was… — Rachel Hawkins Copy Share Image
Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I just... my childhood seems, when I look back, to be largely composed of reading, lying on the bed. I mean, my… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“As God, Christ, the virgin, the prince of the apostles and the shepherds labored even so must we labor in our callings. God… — Roland H. Bainton Copy Share Image
“After years of watching my parents -I always assumed marriage meant loving someone so much that you were blind to everything and… — H.R. Willaston Copy Share Image
My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die. I counted. It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“How, I asked, could I have gone my whole life not knowing about my mother? How could I have not known what… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
I think I'm probably the only person that, when the parents lent me money to make the movie, they wished I had… — John Waters Copy Share Image
My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
My father was extremely loving to me and funny and wise and understanding, and at other times extremely demanding, critical, calculating, exacting.… — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decisions. And your father, if… — Birch Bayh Copy Share Image
“My father is a hoarder. I can say that now, and people’s eyes widen in understanding. Maybe they know someone who is… — Kimberly Rae Miller Copy Share Image
