I did start reading quite young but I was always read to by my parents, who are both actors. Bedtime stories from… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
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My grandparents and my mother were marvelous people, but they were not particularly demonstrative in their love. It was teachers who were… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
Young people in college - many living away from their parents for the first time in their lives - are particularly vulnerable… — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
Inherently, I have a social conscience which my late father inculcated in me. He was not exactly a very wealthy man, but… — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Copy Share Image
Your children are your retirement plan. Because of that, all parents want their children, their only children, to do really well financially,… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
My mother is gay. She was married to my dad up until I was 9. She was just like, 'I'm tired of… — Ashleigh Murray Copy Share Image
“A horrible, heart-slamming-in-her-chest, run-run-run kind of scared. But her mother said there's no outrunning Death or the devil, so she holds her… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good… — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
“Angry at his parents and all grown-ups who thought that school life was a lark, a good time, the best years of… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“The question that arises is this: had father hated the people on the ship, just as she now hates the motorcyclist and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“I don’t tell my mother what happened the night before. I’m too embarrassed to tell her that I allowed that fat nasty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was around 16 or 17, I got asked to model, but because I was very 'tomboy' at the time, I… — Suki Waterhouse Copy Share Image
Do you really think we'll ever--" "I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. He leaned over and kissed my… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I actually did want to be an actor when I was younger, but my father didn't want to hear anything about it.… — Kris Holden-Ried Copy Share Image
After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled between houses - staying… — Ronnie Musgrove Copy Share Image
“In his way and in his day he was a very modern father. "I want you to see all kinds," he would… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with… — Bernard Hill Copy Share Image
The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and struggling… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
Prayer is the umbilical cord that allows you - with your embryonic ideas - to draw nourishment from a source that you,… — Welye Anuwama Ibrahim Copy Share Image
You know what I can't stand? These little girls that get pregnant and don't grow up, they think they can just carry… — Cheyenne Copy Share Image
As parents we hope that you touch the life of thousands of other people with the same dignity, happiness, care and love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother was always deeply attracted to anything medical, and I think she would have loved me to have been a doctor.… — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
In my career, there's many things I've won and many things I've achieved, but for me, my greatest achievement is my children… — David Beckham Copy Share Image
A lot of things I try to instill in my children comes off of what I've learned from my parents. First of… — Andy Garcia Copy Share Image
“Thing about white people," Jeremiah's father tells him, "they know what everybody else is, but they don't know they're white" - "Maybe… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
My mother doesn't cook; my grandmother didn't cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It… — Katharine Weymouth Copy Share Image
“...and at the table next to her was a little boy in a soccer uniform sitting with his mother who told him,… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
A mother's love — how sweet the name! What is a mother's love? — A noble, pure and tender flame, Enkindled from… — James Montgomery Copy Share Image
Now the Father draws us from the evil of sin to the goodness of His grace with the might of His measureless… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other… — Alan Valentine Copy Share Image
It isn't that some gay will get some rights. It's that everyone else in our state will lose rights. For instance, parents… — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
I liked my father's work. But above all I liked the idea of doing something concrete and useful. Building a house is… — Javier Zanetti Copy Share Image
Palliative care is something that you don't know you need until you're in the space where you need it, either from someone… — Jacky Rosen Copy Share Image
Men who as boys felt neglected by their dads often remain distant from their children. The sins of fathers are passed on… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
“I nearly weep. All I had ever wanted was that my mother be glad to be alive in my presence. I am… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t possibly love you any more than I already do. Josephine, my heart resides with you forevermore.” He remembers the quote… — J.L. Mac Copy Share Image
“But heart's desires? My dear, I see by your misery - by this very request you are making - that you know… — Margo Lanagan Copy Share Image
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