What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these… — Juliana Spahr Copy Share Image
Technology has spoiled me and I'm so dependent on it that I do not even remember my mother's mobile number! And I… — Madhura Naik Copy Share Image
“Every year, Blue and her mother, Maura, had come to the same place, and every year it was chilly. But this year,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I hang out with people who are amazing parents and really value a rich living. I'm not talking about monetarily. I'm talking… — Tisha Campbell-Martin Copy Share Image
I hadn’t had a mother since I was two, and from then until seven I had believed God was someone who had… — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
We inherit a lot from our parents: mom's eyes, dad's chin, and the attitude of whichever parent isn't punishing you at the… — Milton Berle Copy Share Image
I always remember the teachings of our ancestors: respect for God, teacher, government, and both parents. Even after I became president, I… — Suharto Copy Share Image
We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When the only answer a little girl ever receives is no, from her parents or her teachers or her world, at some… — Laura Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I called her Mrs. Bennington at her insistence. When I'd referred to her as Ms. Bennington, she'd nearly bitten my head off.… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I don't know, Jondalar. Maybe you haven't found the right woman. Maybe the Mother has someone special for you. She doesn't make… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Love involves more than just feelings. It is also a way of behaving. When Sandy said, "My parents don't know how to… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“First of all, I would like to thank the judge for that question, and I would like to thank this pageant for… — Carlos Malvar Copy Share Image
“You know how to fire this?" he asked. Thomas took Ulysses's gun. It looked absurdly large in his thin hands, but he… — Cameron Stracher Copy Share Image
“there was a 4 year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly man who had just lost his wife. When… — John Posch Copy Share Image
Now people are much more receptive because they can just go online and just Google your name and make sure you're not,… — Michael Flutie Copy Share Image
“When I was in high school contemplating whether to take Home Economics or not, my mother exclaimed: “Oh no, darling…you must never… — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
I think my parents were surprisingly cool with me entering the arts. Although, I think they thought it was going to be… — John Cho Copy Share Image
My parents read me some typical children's books: 'Green Eggs and Ham,' 'The Little Engine That Could,' 'Peter Rabbit.' But I quickly… — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
I cannot believe I spent a lifetime taking care of kids. parents, friends, relatives. when all I need is a shoulder to… — Paula Poore Copy Share Image
I think that what kids watch now a days is different than what kids watch when I was young so I don't… — Mila Kunis Copy Share Image
“The assumption that fertility control should be manipulated by authorities without respect for the wishes and dignity of individuals still exists. We… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a… — Haile Gebrselassie Copy Share Image
“Choosing a simpler life does not offer me a paycheck, a pat on the back from the parents who paid for a… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today the separation of church and state is America is used to silence the church... The way the concept is used today… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite… — Caryl Rivers Copy Share Image
That's where the Black Keys and Jack White have succeeded and I've failed: They've actually convinced college kids that they're listening to… — Joe Bonamassa Copy Share Image
Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
A starving poor child once asked his mother, 'What's Christmas, mom?' The mother replied: 'That's a good question, but I really don't… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
“Google, his mother says. The new new found land. Not so long ago it was only the mentally deranged, the unworldly pedants,… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
My parents had this massive record player in the living room, a 'blue spot grand' they called it... it used up an… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
When on life's journey it becomes our lot to travel with criticism of skeptics, the hate of some, the rejection of others,… — Angel Abrea Copy Share Image
Spending a lot of time away from home was strange. My parents visited me, obviously, but I was in hospital a lot,… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
“As an infant, my oldest brother was taken from my parents and they weren’t allowed to raise him. For centuries, my father… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I had a… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
My mother taught me to be nice to everybody. And she said something before I left home. She said, 'I want you… — Jason Segel Copy Share Image
That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father… — Lew Wasserman Copy Share Image