My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me messing… — George Benson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, mothers say and do things that seem like they don't want their kids... but when you look more closely, you realize… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Jesus was not SELFLESS. He did not live as if ONLY other people counted. He knew his value and worth. He had… — Peter Scazzero Copy Share Image
Today I can have everything I want and everything my mother and I always dreamt of. I have it all but I… — Joao Cancelo Copy Share Image
“Cal will never turn his back on his crown, on your father." "I know my brother. If it comes down to it,… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
“I failed to understand as a parent until it was too late: that anyone can be suffering and in need of expert… — Sue Klebold Copy Share Image
If It Ain't Helping Then Its Hopeless Streets Fucked Up Gotta Keep Your Eyes Open I'm So Thankful That I'm Passionate That… — Dul Copy Share Image
To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than… — Sholom Aleichem Copy Share Image
“My mother kept calling me out of myself. She wanted to show me a picture, the first picture from the slave-ship exhibition.… — Tamara Faith Berger Copy Share Image
My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got… — Lupita Nyong'o Copy Share Image
As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or… — Allen Covert Copy Share Image
My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car,… — Victoria Beckham Copy Share Image
“A daughter whose mother chose to leave her or was incapable of mothering may feel like a member of the emotional underclass,… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
Growing up in a place that has winter, you learn to avoid self-pity. Winter is not a personal experience, everybody else is… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
By the time kids are 15, they're drunks and they're drug addicts and they're getting chicks pregnant. The parents wonder, "What did… — Andrew Dice Clay Copy Share Image
There was that moment of, "Oh, my parents are watching Columbo and I hate it" to "No, I love this show, too."… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“I’m not,” Ben said. “I’m careful. There’s a difference.” “Of course,” my father said. “I’d never—” “Save it for the paying customers,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer. He taught that prayers are always answered: “Everyone who asks receives”. And He implied that… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
God created us so that the joy He has in Himself might be ours. God doesn't simply think about Himself or talk… — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
“I lost my mother when I was three years old. She had some small injury – a piece of metal pierced her… — William Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I do plead with the mothers of Zion to undertake modesty in dress. We may like to follow the fashion, but let… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
Say “no” only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Kevin", his father began, "I've been thinking about it – I guess I was kind of carried away. It's just that I've… — Failte Copy Share Image
My father was a soldier. He was a frogman in the special forces in Denmark before I was born, and always the… — Tobias Lindholm Copy Share Image
My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
There are some men who, in a spirit of arrogance, think they are superior to women. They do not seem to realize… — Gordon B Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Although the 1996 welfare reform pushed millions of low-income single moms into the workforce, it did nothing to improve the conditions of… — Kathryn Edin Copy Share Image
“You are so lucky to have each other. I've never actually seen a man love a woman as much as he loves… — Tara Brown Copy Share Image
“We look at the way some kids behave and instantly blame the parents, and more often than not we’re correct. The school… — Karl Wiggins Copy Share Image
When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“God Offers Comfort to All 3 All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Before she was allowed to take the albums out of their sleeves, Eleanor used to lay them out on the floor and… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“I believe our prayers do more than just petition the Father. I’ve become convinced that in some situations they actually release cumulative… — Dutch Sheets Copy Share Image
Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents'… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our… — Jane Howard Copy Share Image
“„You don't really want to do this. I'm a good vampire – I mean, like, a vampire with a soul, not that… — Helen Keeble Copy Share Image
“You and Father are far too trusting!” Charis said, but the vehemence of her protest was dulled by the visible twitch at… — Rachel R. Smith Copy Share Image
“Merrill Meewee knew his stones. As a boy in Kenya, skipping stones was his favorite free-time activity. There had been an abundance… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
