When I was going away to school, I had a friend who took a liking to my family just a little too… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Let's face it, we all got issues. Most of the time we can deal with our own overstuffed luggage, but every once… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
When I was growing up my mother made certain that I was exposed to people of all races and religions who were… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around… — Melvin Konner Copy Share Image
In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
My conscience does not render a positive verdict in God’s courtroom when I look inside myself. The only reason I can sleep… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
In the U.K., my mother had been the breadwinner. I'd seen my parents side by side. In Saudi Arabia, my mother was… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
I was studying at Stanford University with two quarters left to go before receiving an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. Then, I… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
“If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Everybody is excited about their projects and I'm excited too. It's not like working. It's like playing with your friends. When I… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
My father passed away when I was seven, mom single-handedly brought up my brother Rahul and me. She was a civil surgeon… — Divya Dutta Copy Share Image
My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
It seems to me that a great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility -… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You are your child's everything, you are their love, comfort, safe place, and happy place. You are their world. Their love for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You spend your whole life trying to get out of holes. The hole you’re born into because of who your parents are.… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Nobody spoke for a minute; then Meg said in an altered tone, "You know the reason Mother proposed not having any presents… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The object of our being placed upon this earth is that we may work out an exaltation, that we may prepare ourselves… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with… — Toni Tennille Copy Share Image
Everyone that gets an authority into his hands tyrannizes over others; as many husbands, parents, masters, magistrates, that live after the flesh… — Gerrard Winstanley Copy Share Image
“Let me put it this way, my father believed in a righteous God. Deus volt, that was his motto- 'because God wills… — Jace from Cassandra Clare's City of Bones Copy Share Image
“I recognized the great monument from the illustration in the copy of /The Jungle Book/ that my mother kept in the top… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
I don't hate children. My wife and I just didn't think we would be good parents, and also by the time we… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
I had a talk with my older son a couple of days ago. I explained to him that I went to a… — Sofia Helin Copy Share Image
“All we can do is trust those that we encounter on our journey through life - the parents and children, the partners… — Hannah Beckerman Copy Share Image
“Hauk laughed unexpectedly. “You know, Ryn, I keep thinking back to what my father used to say to me. There are two… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“His eyes ran over her hungrily. “I couldn’t get it out of my mind,” he said, almost to himself, “the way it… — Diana Palmer Copy Share Image
“It is not certain that the mother of the historical Jesus was called Mary .. The mother of Jesus could not have… — Kamal Salibi Copy Share Image
I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a really great review,… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“Through knowing death we can hold a beacon of love for every moment that has just passed, for every friend who has… — Sebastian Pole Copy Share Image
My mom was a single mother. She had six siblings in a big Irish family, all descended from shanty Irish folks who… — Rory O'Malley Copy Share Image
No matter what set she's been on over the last 12 years, my mother always finds a way to get in the… — Rick Hoffman Copy Share Image
Every mother can easily imagine losing a child. Motherhood is always half loss anyway. The three-year-old is lost at five, the five-year-old… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“He was a bad, bad bastard. He abused the privilege of being a cunt, as my old Da would say.’ I smiled,… — Craig Russell Copy Share Image
Some of us stay married because we're in competition with our divorcing 1960s and 1970s parents, who made such a hash of… — Sandra Tsing Loh Copy Share Image
My father's father wrote for a Philadelphia newspaper and aspired to be a playwright. We had in our house a couple of… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
