My mother is full of good advice, but I feel the best one is that if you are working before marriage or… — Esha Deol Copy Share Image
When my father died of AIDS, I knew I had to do everything in my power to prevent others from going through… — Natasha Richardson Copy Share Image
“But when your father announced his intentions for us, I knew I had to purge myself of the rage, because loving you...… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
My promise to my children: for as long as I live, I will always be your parent first, and your friend second.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unlike the mother-son relationship, a daughter's relationship with her mother is something akin to bungee diving. She can stake her claim in… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
He [Groucho's father] had absolutely no training, and if you had ever seen one of his suits, you'd realize what an accurate… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
A lot of the women that I treat will tell me that when they talk to their siblings or mothers they very… — Laura Berman Copy Share Image
“One of the people who’d cheered him tested the limits later when Trump referenced the recent Orlando nightclub shooting and made the… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
My mother was Welsh and I loved going to Wales every summer, where Uncle Les had a farm. My mother had seven… — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When you speak it sounds like music to my ears you love is like candy you eyes sparkle like the stars your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time drawing and writing stories, and my mother encouraged me not to use an eraser when I… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Goats did have names for themselves, she well knew: there was 'goat who is my kid,' 'goat who is my mother,' 'goat… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Our faith works because we love, and we love because he has first loved us. Our faith is then emboldened by this… — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
“Oh God, I’m a cliché,” he said in despair. “Why do I care? If Dad decides he hates me because I’m not… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
By default I am the good parent. I've used my own personal experience. I came from a world where I was in… — Bob Harper Copy Share Image
“When she turned fifteen, Blue concluded that her mother’s tarot cards were just a pack of playing cards and that the dreams… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Part of Clary wanted to lean sideways and put her head on her mother’s shoulder. She could even close her eyes, pretend… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Lucy, a girl's name for Lucifer. That my mother would have found me devil-like did not surprise me, for I often thought… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
In LA you can't tell the teenagers and the moms apart, which is so strange to me. And then it's like, "Who… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
I get so sick and tired of hearing people gripe about what their parents did to them. You know what your parents… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
“I lost count of the incidences of "We can imagine" or "It is safe to imagine" or "We can speculate" or "We… — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural;… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
“A lot of the nonsense was the innocent result of playfulness on the part of the founding fathers of the nation of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Parents embraced “Sesame Street” for several reasons, among them that it assuaged their guilt over the fact that they could not or… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
“It is, no doubt, impossible to prevent his praying for his mother, but we have means of rendering the prayers innocuous. Make… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“Jules told them, "I used to be a camper here myself," but she was confronted with a squeal of feedback, and even… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“one day the goldfish died, all five of them, they floated on the water, on their sides, their eyes still open, and… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
As a child, I remember seeing what a struggle it was for both my parents to accommodate and adjust to the idea… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, 'Mummy, Mummy, sing me a… — Les Dawson Copy Share Image