I've always liked the idea of inventing stuff. My father told me, because I was naïve, I would think things could work… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
My mother never talked about sex. I was on the Dr. Ruth [ Westheimer] show once - this is years and years… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
“MY FATHER" You know I always had that power, power of words in my pen that could turn my darkest, miserable, unbearable… — Muhammad Talha Copy Share Image
“My daughter has a mother. She is not and never will be yours. You stay the fuck away from her. And if… — Nicole Jacquelyn Copy Share Image
I think that you find your own way. You have your own rules. You have your own understanding of yourself, and that's… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“Ingeniously as their parents and teachers may attempt to protect the young from being drawn, to their detriment, into the moronic amusement… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“Instead, parents just have to be good enough. They have to provide their kids with stable and predictable rhythms. They need to… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Like most parents we had some kind of issue with each of our children. Two of them struggled getting through school, one… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Oh, of course, there is another meaning, another interesting interpretation of the word 'father,' which insists that my father, though a monster,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I was born in Okinawa, but on a U.S. Army base. And my father is Japanese-American which means that he is second… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
It's not the fledgling birds that are thrown out of the nest by their parents and made to fly; it's the parents… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
“I believe that many modern women, my mother included, carry within them a whole secret New England cemetery, wherein they have quietly… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn't yet know… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
a mother's death also means the loss of the consistent, supportive family system that once supplied her with a secure home base,… — Hope Edelman Copy Share Image
My mother always taught us that any accomplishment my sisters or I achieve is a 'feather in all our caps.' Kathy, Kim,… — Kyle Richards Copy Share Image
I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
I was in awe of my father. His generosity was beyond anything I ever could imagine. The reason I say he's like… — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
“Father Michaels' sermon was mercifully short. He had a reputation for three-minute homilies, tightly written, provocative and insightful. His words centered on… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
To have your parents get divorced at a young age, there's a lot of turbulence. We all grew up together, in some… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle -- be Thou near them! With them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do think a lot of sexual violence stems from experiences in childhood or at puberty. Some people become sadistic after suffering… — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
I don't come from a particularly musical family. My mother learned a bit of piano in Korea. When I was three, I… — Charlie Albright Copy Share Image
My father could be very distancing. My clearest memory is of him squatting, watering plants for hours and hours at a time,… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
“A boy needs a father to show him how to be in the world. He needs to be given swagger, taught how… — Ian Morgan Cron Copy Share Image
Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for… — Saffron Aldridge Copy Share Image
I wouldn't intentionally hurt anyone in this whole world. I wouldn't hurt them physically or emotionally, how then can people so consistently… — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
When I was 7 years old and my father [Pablo Escobar] tells me "my profession is that of a bandido (a bandit)… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
“To a parent, your child wasn’t just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I thought I had a huge crush on a young Canadian photographer who was commissioned to go down to Australia to do… — Deborah Kara Unger Copy Share Image
“THE MOTHER SPARROW take ni iza / ume ni iza to ya / oya suzume Let’s be off to the bamboo, to… — Robert Aitken Copy Share Image
We are the higher synthesis of the union of the archetypal Mother and Father. As we recognize the divinity within ourselves, we… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
When my generation grew up, our only sources of knowledge were books, teachers, parents and friends. The encyclopedia was an item of… — Vivek Wadhwa Copy Share Image
I have a very strong paternal streak. I'm a born father...I get such enjoyment out of being with children. Now they are… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful experiences our family shared was feeling the love and bond that came to life when my mother… — Yael Cohen Copy Share Image
“It's your storm, and the future of us all depends on you now. So who are you? Sage, an orphan boy who… — Jennifer A. Nielsen Copy Share Image
There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was… — Sally Field Copy Share Image
Arrow! Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and I have always recovered you. I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From the vantage point of my warm, comfortable spot on mother earth, I could see off into infinite space and the eternity… — Eric L. Haney Copy Share Image
“Thus the sons of earth now drink in The fire of heaven without danger. And it is our duty, poets, to stand… — Friedrich Hölderlin Copy Share Image