I was born in Iran, my parents are Armenian. We fled from Iran to the Netherlands when I was eight years old.… — Gegard Mousasi Copy Share Image
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And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As you talk to Heavenly Father and pour out your heart to Him, you will draw closer to Him. Then pause, stop,… — Margaret D. Nadauld Copy Share Image
My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“The Happy Trinity is her home: nothing can trouble her joy. She is the bird that evades every net: the wild deer… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
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“Even so, your Heavenly Father says “surely…”—He gives you a certainty that you can count on! It is a promise of continuance.… — Stephen Chappell Copy Share Image
If your father, who is known for carrying around a belt, told you to read a book, you went and did it.… — Kwame Alexander Copy Share Image
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
My parents were never into films, but I hope to make them proud with my work some day. In any case, in… — Kriti Sanon Copy Share Image
“It became his habit to creep out of bed even before his mother was awake, to slip into his clothes and to… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
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A traveling show visited a country town and one of the acts was advertised as a striptease. A small boy begged his… — Art Linkletter Copy Share Image
It is hard to stop seeing your son as a son and to start seeing him as a human being. It is… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
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“John wrote in Revelation 17 that Babylon was the “mother” of abominations. In other words, an innovator and pioneer of promoting sin.… — John Price Copy Share Image
Every parent worries about whether their kids are going to be proud of them or are they going to think they're cool,… — Alex Brooker Copy Share Image
“And, you see, the little boy’s father was working hard to make the Negroes sweat on the peanut plantation, and he thought… — Michèle Audin Copy Share Image
“He imagined himself as a sprinter now, felt his arms and legs pumping, thought of the old Cuban sprinter his father used… — Mike Lupica Copy Share Image
Pat Fox out to the forty(yard line) and grabs the sliothar(ball), I bought a dog from his father last week. Fox turns… — Micheal O Muircheartaigh Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that an immense number of people who have children should not have them, and do not particularly want them,… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“71. Rare Things -- A son-in-law who's praised by his wife's father. Likewise, a wife who's loved by her mother-in-law. A pair… — Sei Shōnagon Copy Share Image
“When I’m asked today what someone might have said to get me to change my mind about having either abortion, I tell… — Abby Johnson Copy Share Image
There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I had my daughter in 2013, we moved to L.A. and there's just lots of things that were happening that were feeding… — Lee Isaac Chung Copy Share Image
As an actor, you can't play big, huge things. But, what you can play is love for your father and caring for… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
I feel completely safe in my house but all my friends are scared for me. And of course I can tell my… — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
Educating children and their parents on the universal messages of free enterprise and self-determination takes money. So does grooming political talent within… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
“Abuse of gift-giving can occur when a child is living with a custodial parent following a separation or divorce. The noncustodial parent… — Gary D. Chapman Copy Share Image
“All my life, I have gotten everything I ever wanted. I have a mother and father who are incredibly successful. We live… — Tammy Falkner Copy Share Image
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
My parents were part of the Christian Family Movement, where we would have Masses said in our home and rotate with other… — Catherine Hicks Copy Share Image
“A child was a temptation of the flesh, as well as of the spirit; I knew the bliss of that unbounded oneness,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
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