“This tradition doesn't exist for Bengalis, naming a son after father or grandfather, a daughter after mother or grandmother. This sign of… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front… — Jacob Batalon Copy Share Image
The first thing you learn is sacrifice and how to keep moving forward in life, helping your parents to put food on… — Angel Di Maria Copy Share Image
“Alberto Ascari says there have been atrocities, Father,” Pino said. “The Nazis have killed priests helping Jews. They’ve pulled them right off… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“His skin like grey bark, his eyes pale as a winter pool, time and age had worn my father to the bone.… — Jamie Wyman Copy Share Image
Only now that I'm a mum can I fully understand the terrible pressure parents feel buying presents for their kids. My mum… — Mel Giedroyc Copy Share Image
My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
“Can we get on with this?" Father Laggan cried out. "In the name of the Father…" "I'm inviting my aunt Millicent and… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
My parents said that I was born with a sharp cry and a personality as prickly as an African hedgehog. Even worse,… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
“I remember the day when my seventh-grade teacher called my parents to tell them I’d been crying in the bathrooms at lunchtime… — Hilary T. Smith Copy Share Image
I was always restless, always a roving spirit. When I was a little child I was always running away. I never got… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
“His father, who for years had refused to speak to Eddie, now lacked the strength to even try. He watched his son… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
As an actor, it's a very strange adjustment to start playing the father. I was used to playing a kid my whole… — Kerr Smith Copy Share Image
It's so easy in life for us to receive blessings, many of them almost uncounted, and have things happen in our lives… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
In His own ministry, Jesus did not come to improve God's view of man nearly so much as He came to improve… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“I grew up a PK ("preacher's kid"). Emma, the heroine of this book, is a vicar's daughter. I want to make clear… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“Charlotte is a prism for my life. Without her, my existence looks pale and bleak and somewhere near the middle of the… — Hannah Moskowitz Copy Share Image
My earliest memory was watching my mother do her makeup. She was obsessed with beauty and collected makeup and experimented with it.… — Pat McGrath Copy Share Image
“When someone does wrong, whether it is you or me, whether it is mother or father, whether it is the Gold Coast… — Yaa Gyasi Copy Share Image
“Finally his voice came through. 'Elio,' he said. I could hear my parents and the voices of children in the background. No… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
“It was just that - Gabby's common sense came to the rescue. Quill was an uncommonly handsome man. His eyes made her… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“She had not told her mother about Denys, but she had a suspicion that Mrs. Shannon knew all about it nevertheless. It… — Monica Dickens Copy Share Image
I went to school, majored in theatre, and said 'Mom, I have to choose my own destiny. I want to be an… — Arsenio Hall Copy Share Image
“If a young woman from money marries an old man because of money and nothing else and makes love to him for… — Irmgard Keun Copy Share Image
“He had never seen the ocean before; he knew it only as the featureless blue void between the detailed continents on his… — Jack Croxall Copy Share Image
You know, how am I leading my own life? What am I denying? Since I brought such great powers of denial into… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
“She’d always suspected that she was the sort of girl who wouldn’t go home to see a sick father if she had… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“Peeta,” I say lightly. “You said at the interview you’d had a crush on me forever. When did forever start?” “Oh, let’s… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I want to be an incredible father, an incredible husband and take great care of my wife and all my kids and… — Jordan Fisher Copy Share Image
My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume… — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image
My father was a very fun dad. He was always coaching our soccer sports teams; he made sure that we had activities… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
In 'Hardflip,' you have a relationship where the father and son haven't seen each other in 18 years, but they find they're… — John Schneider Copy Share Image
“And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“We want our children to have a childhood that's magical and enriched, but I'll bet that your best childhood memories involve something… — Lenore Skenazy Copy Share Image
“You're interesting when you sleep." He spoke matter-of-factly. "You talk." "No!" I gasped, heat flooding my face all the way to my… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
