I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed… — Payne Stewart Copy Share Image
“Each generation stamps itself onto the next one. The impression is indelible. Like the flowers in my mother's gardens that come and… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
In 1965, my father was just twirling the dial of the radio to find something that would make me go to sleep,… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our feet, are… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“Uh-oh,' said Gazzy, but Angel was so nauseated she didn't have time to leap to a safe distance, or grab a gas… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“I've tried to keep pleasant," Mabel went on. "You don't know how I've tried. I have that verse pinned up on my… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
“The most insidious of the premature responsibilities that may be foisted onto some children is the expectation that the child is somehow… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
“Most people learn their trade – almost always farming – from their parents or village communities. Industrialization changed all that. People had… — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“She knew how to play him so very well. He slipped his hand around hers. "Friends," he repeated roughly. Her smile was… — Kathryn Smith Copy Share Image
“She closed her eyes, silently continuing the pleas that she be given words that might soothe, words that would begin the healing… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
“They also create wormholes in time, transporting their mothers and fathers back to feelings and sensations they haven't had since they themselves… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
As you become an adult, shame gets introduced and reintroduced constantly to you. So where something that, to a child, just is… — Justin Torres Copy Share Image
The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The school systems at my childhood had enough money or enough parent involvement that they felt like learning music and songs, and… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
I took my mother's knife and played johnny johnny johnny on the playhouse floor. I was drunk, stabbed myself every few throws.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Was he coming to bury the hatchet? Was there a hatchet to even be buried? For some reason I started thinking of… — Nick Burd Copy Share Image
F*CK ( o Y o ) CANCER!! My mother gave me life & never once asked for anything in return. That is… — JMe Copy Share Image
“...moral and religious education, and especially the education a child receives at home, where parents are allowed - even expected - to… — Nicholas Humphrey Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that people who interact with your children will influence them. If they are godless, they will influence your… — Benjamin Nzuki Copy Share Image
My parents and two sisters were great musicians but my family's approach to music was always way more academic than mine. They… — Bonobo Copy Share Image
I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
“It is interesting to note that under our original Constitution the highest office for which citizens could vote was their member of… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
“This was the lesson we kept learning over and over and over, the lesson our mother was best capable of teaching us.… — Christie Hodgen Copy Share Image
“There is much that I could say about the happy and tender incidents in my childhood days, the sense of security which… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I often saw weary little women coming to the table after most exhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“WAKE Dealing with an alcoholic single mother and endless hours of working at Heather Nursing Home to raise money for college, high-school… — Lisa McMann Copy Share Image
I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Being a father is the hardest job on the planet, because we don't have parental instincts like women have. You have to… — Malik Yusef Copy Share Image
Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
And he said unto them, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren,… — Bible Copy Share Image
There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
At times, my parents said, "Let's get the child married," and I said a big no. Impossible. How could I be with… — Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Copy Share Image
Both my parents were a tremendous influence on me. My father's influence came from - he decided well, probably before we were… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
“At first the boys were puzzled by illness. They looked at their father from the other side of a wall of pain,… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
When a parent who has a little kid with a disability says they saw me and now they've found a purpose, that's… — Dylan Alcott Copy Share Image
When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend.… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
