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We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I did not begin to talk about peace when my father died nor did I begin to criticize him at that point… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
When my brother died in 1966, my father began a grieving process that lasted almost twenty-five years. For all that time, he… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
The natural inclination of man is to rely solely upon himself and to ignore the purpose of his existence as well as… — Delbert L. Stapley Copy Share Image
“Way back when I was four, I became increasingly sickly and spiritless. My mother took me to the doctor, who poked and… — Alisa Smith Copy Share Image
“Mildred sat quite still, and when she heard Veda drive off she was consumed by a fury so cold that it almost… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
Husbands and fathers, get on your knees before God and accept your place as head of your household. You are the prophet… — Kenneth Copeland Copy Share Image
We knew our Father. There was no need for persuasion. Would not His Fatherliness be longing to give us our hearts' desire… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
“Fear is the mother of all emotion. Before love, hate, spite, grief, rage, and all the rest, there was fear, and fear… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Cutting HBCUs was unconscionable. Implementing new regulations on Parent Plus loans, which cost HBCUs 28,000 students, was hostile. At the same time,… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I wanted to be a house painter like my father, but I was always screwing up when… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
It has become an accepted tenet that kids will rarely listen to their parents but seldom fail to imitate them. Communicating the… — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
“Forgetting the injustices and seeming injustices which one suffered from one’s parents during childhood and youth must be the major part of… — Peter Taylor Copy Share Image
“My mother was widely loved, and rightly so – and widely regarded as too sweet for words. Well, she had them buffaloed.… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“I bloody well should marry Wellbelove. My father would love it. Marry her. Give her the keys to whatever she wants keys… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Do not expect that you will have no sorrows because you are a king. “It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
As you get older, it's important to have goals. When you're a kid you have them, but other people can set them… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
“Father George Paulsen said to me, “Most of us have been in the same boat. Most of us find that the sins… — Gregory Wolfe Copy Share Image
I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked,… — Eminem Copy Share Image
“She’d already scanned every word a hundred times, absorbing every nuance in gradation and every stray mark of her mother’s pen—from the… — Laekan Zea Kemp Copy Share Image
“You want to see safe hands?' her dad asked. He went to the fruit bowl on the side of the table, took… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“My father had left a small collection of books in a little room upstairs, to which I had access (for it adjoined… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My parents thought, 'Oh, my God! What's wrong with him? He's possessed or something.' All of a sudden, I stood up and… — Raul Julia Copy Share Image
When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
“One of the things that happens in the world is that people try to avoid conflict. Whereas in the home, you can't.… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“I am a conscious parent. That means I realize that I am not here to teach my children, but rather we are… — Monika Zands Copy Share Image
While I was drying off Maddie after her bath tonight, she said, 'I love you' to me for the first time. It… — Jim Beaver Copy Share Image
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My mother is schizophrenic. I would love to be brave enough to learn more about it. I try to understand her, I… — Pom Klementieff Copy Share Image
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Parents ought, through their own behavior and the values by which they live, to provide direction for their children. But they need… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
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My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I… — Paula Gunn Allen Copy Share Image
“Their parents had been progressive by nature. They had taken their daughters with them to the Far East on a business trip… — Mervin Miller Copy Share Image
“Now," my mother sniffled, "WERE you abducted? Kidnapped?" "You mean did somebody snatch me?" "Yes. Well?" "Why would anybody wanna snatch ME?"… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“Why not just tell my parents the boarding school thing wasn't working out, and go home? That offer had been on the… — Elizabeth Cody Kimmel Copy Share Image
Being somebody: it's one of the ideas in life, no? That's what my father made clear to me. The importance of being… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“Penelope!” “Mother, I honestly have no idea what you are implying.” “Who wil take care of you? When your father dies?” “Is… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image