“I watch, and the mothers watch. I do not know how to interact with the mothers. Am I them? They occasionally try… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
For African American children, in particular, the odds are extremely high that they will have a parent or loved one, a relative,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Readers who have owned animals will appreciate how difficult it would be to train a dog to play exclusively in his own… — Thomas Gordon Copy Share Image
When you've got African parents, you go to uni, do finance, and go into accounting. But I'm not good with systems. I… — Michaela Coel Copy Share Image
Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their backs on religion.… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
I came to the Philippines to follow my father who came here earlier, looking for a better life. I helped my father… — Henry Sy Copy Share Image
And as a mother of three with a full-time job, podcasts gave me the illusion of having a vibrant social life. I… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
A mother, not letting her daughter be with one of the only things that make her happy. Gets mad at her for… — Naquitta Copy Share Image
My parents pretty much dressed us until I moved out of the house, and so I had no autonomy or creativity with… — Ethel Cain Copy Share Image
“To my children, I was just Mom. That was all. And before that, I had been Charles’s wife, the bereaved mother of… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
Playing with my daughter, I sat down because I couldn't chase her anymore and she said, 'Please, Daddy. I love playing with… — Joe Gatto Copy Share Image
The family that raised me are awesome people and they are my mother and my father and my brother and my sister.… — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
I had blackouts, fallen out, of course, the death threats, people showing up, putting guns to my wife's head with mask, and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent… — John Green Copy Share Image
“If my duty to my parents is a superstition, then so is my duty to posterity. If justice is a superstition, then… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
How can you be sure?" "I'm a doctor, Jenna. And a scientist." "Does that make you an authority on everything? What about… — Mary E. Pearson Copy Share Image
“Occasionally my mother called from California. My parents had hurried and difficult conversations. She asked after Buckley and Linsey and Holiday. She… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
My mother was a great woman. To look at her from the suffering she had gone through to bring us up -… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“My mother, Woman with Many Robes, asks if you want to eat?” Loretta gave an emphatic shake of her head, pressing closer… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“Que diga amor? Love? Hate? Speak to me of things the world has yet to truly understand, of the instant meaning of… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
You become a parent, and your whole life becomes about worrying. You just worry constantly whether they'll be okay. And the idea… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
“But whose mother are you? Don’t slip so easily into the role of being that kid’s mother.” “I used to be.” “But… — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
My parents both worked to make sure me and my brothers could do whatever we wanted. We were a middle-class family, not… — Tyrese Haliburton Copy Share Image
“I sobbed again, and this time my father chuckled. "What's so funny?" I demanded, tilting my head when my cheek got his… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
It may be unfathomable in architecture, but it is very practical, or routine, for a person in theater to use action. You… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States since World War II… — Hermann Eilts Copy Share Image
I have not been able to find a single useful institution which has not been founded either by an intensely religious man… — Roger Babson Copy Share Image
As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk,… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
One way in which all of us can help to combat the current wave of public indecency which threatens to undermine Western… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image
Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the… — Claudia Emerson Copy Share Image
When I was little playing all these tournaments, I was so professional already. My parents were like, 'Oh, my gosh, she's crazy.'… — Ajla Tomljanovic Copy Share Image
“Beyond that box camera he saw in a shop window in Chicago in seventh grade, Dad has never wanted anything, as far… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
“Tina dropped her eyes. She hated this feeling. She wished she could tell the woman that her life hadn’t always been governed… — Nicole Trope Copy Share Image
“I’m kidding, but Bronwyn goes rigid. “How can you say that?” Her cheeks get red, giving her that flushed look that always… — Karen M. McManus Copy Share Image
“He had been brought up to it from a boy, his father, as I have heard, accustoming his children to dispute with… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There is no one perfect way to be a good mother... Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged… — Valorie Curry Copy Share Image
I read a column by George Will that SCARFACE should be rated X because parents were taking their children to see it.… — Ian Shoales Copy Share Image
