“Eventually, I reached the other side of the chasm and understood the differences between the two men. I no longer hated Daddy:… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
I know what you said! My mother would never have belonged to something like that. Some kind of-some kind of hate group."… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Mother used to shape and score the Spam, arrange the rings of pineapple, then pour a little maple syrup over it and… — Trevanian Copy Share Image
“It's just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, from her being on a… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
My parents were over the moon when I had some success with Christmas songs because that was the time of the year… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“My eyes narrowed. “And you’ll take me right home after we see it?” “If that’s what you want,” he said softly, running… — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
“His father always talked to him—so Seryozha felt—as though he were addressing some boy of his own imagination, one of those boys… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Be like an infant baby, who doesnt ask his or her mother if he or she can pee on her or not,… — HQLinesme Copy Share Image
I would hide behind my parents' legs at social events, I was even shy in front of my sisters. I was a… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
“Or maybe I was trying to break out of my skin, thinking about how my parents had been actors in roles and… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
The thing is, my fantasies about being a parent always involved fighting for my unpopular child, doing for her what my own… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I… — Richard J. Roberts Copy Share Image
In 1958, my father graduated from secondary school as the highest-achieving student in the state of Kansas, earning a five-year scholarship to… — Vivienne Ming Copy Share Image
“The essential impact of life's loneliness crushed his beginning-to-tremble body. Mother was alone, too. She could not look to the sanctity of… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
For Dad, the perfect Father's Day would be one in which he didn't even realize that it was Father's Day, because nobody… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Will father be there?" she asked. John turned to her in astonishment. Your father is dead," he replied somberly. "Why should he… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I can turn into a coyote," I said. "My mom tells me I must get it from my father." Calvin's jaw dropped,… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When you're whirling free of the mother ship, when you cut your ropes, slip your chain, step off the map, go absent… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
My mom has never been a big meddler and isn't, like, extremely opinionated or at least just doesn't voice it to me.… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
“There is nothing glorious about creating life out of passionate penetration. Even the animals can do that. The real glory comes when… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Because the media always serve up heroes and villians, there had to be the terrible mothers, the anti-Madonnas, the hideous counterexamples good… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
My mother always told me if I rode a motorcycle with a boy, she'd kill me." ... She couldn't hear him laugh,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
You know, my father used to look at people and he treated everyone with such respect, and he always believed that he… — Jim Nantz Copy Share Image
I was a gymnast when I was younger. My parents put me in gymnastics, and I was actually only good at the… — Josie Loren Copy Share Image
“Adulthood is supposed to be about "a disciplining of a developmentally appropriate insanity". "Adolescents, and their parents who were once adolescents, are… — Phillips Copy Share Image
“Sammy performed the rapid series of operations - which combined elements of the folding of wet laundry, the shoveling of damp ashes,… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“Myrnin to Claire: "Claire, there are things to do." "Here, too, and I'm staying here, believe me." Myrnin was silent for a… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
I can't deny that there's a great privilege in having parents who are established in the field that I'm pursuing. I try… — Zoe Perry Copy Share Image
Father was a good driver and enjoyed driving, but the sight of a female in charge of a vehicle was sometimes too… — Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire Copy Share Image
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and… — Bible Copy Share Image
So say I’m your mom.' 'What?' I said. 'I’m your mom,' he repeated. 'Now tell me you want to quit modeling.' I… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“mingling with the remains of the plane, equally fragmented, equally absurd, there floated the debris of the soul, broken memories, sloughed-off selves,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image