“I guess, even before that, I'd get them to empty out everything their parents and everybody ever told them. I mean even… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“No one goes anywhere alone, least of all into exile—not even those who arrive physically alone, unaccompanied by family, spouse, children, parents,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“It is almost impossible for a parent to hold a secret from a child. Children, without the skills of language, spend years… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
My mother was always wearing Fracas and I always remember her smell, but particularly when I would wake up early in the… — Madonna Copy Share Image
Till now, society has protected the adult and blamed the victim. It has been abetted in its blindness by theories, still in… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
One year for Mother's Day I got me and my mom tickets to go see Alanis Morissette. We both love her sooo… — Lea Michele Copy Share Image
As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges… — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
When I was 4, I had a schedule. I was playing softball. My brother was playing football. My parents were teachers, and… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
Be glad you have a mother who loves you." He was glad of that. A lot, since she was basically the only… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“One day I asked my mother, "Mom, where's my dreaming place?" And she took me up in the hills and showed me… — Pauline Gordon Aboriginal Bunjalung tribe Australia Copy Share Image
“Who else knows about this besides us?” “Just Patti...” “Okay. That should be okay. Is that it?” “And Kaidan,” I added. My… — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
“If my Father says something about me, even if I cannot see it yet, I can rest assured it is so .… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been… — Gro Harlem Brundtland Copy Share Image
“Life changes so quickly. Not long ago I was mourning the death of my parents and wondering if I could make it… — Amy Plum Copy Share Image
The male is just a bundle of conditioned reflexes, is incapable of a mentally free response, is tied to his early conditioning,… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
“We were very much a reading family, but we were a borrow-a-book-from-the-library family more than a bookshelves-full-of-books family. My parents valued books,… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
What you can say, what French parents say to their kids is, 'You don't have to eat everything, honey, you just have… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“He broke off his explanation, seeing in his daughter's eyes the exact moment that a child first understands there are limits on… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Even when I speak English to my parents, I'll say an English word differently to my Chinese parents and friends than I… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“His people or Loretta? His mother’s and father’s faces flashed in his mind. Then others crowded in, Blackbird, Pony Girl, Turtle, Warrior,… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
We mourn; we sorrow for our loved ones that go - our wives, our husbands, our children, our parents; we sorrow for… — Francis M. Lyman Copy Share Image
When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm also discovering that while they seem to believe that I do not require sleep, my husband (who also doubles as their… — Dallas Louis Copy Share Image
A good character is, in all cases, the fruit of personal exertion. It is not inherited from parents; it is not created… — Josiah Johnson Hawes Copy Share Image
A lot of the women that I treat will tell me that when they talk to their siblings or mothers they very… — Laura Berman Copy Share Image
He [Groucho's father] had absolutely no training, and if you had ever seen one of his suits, you'd realize what an accurate… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Unlike the mother-son relationship, a daughter's relationship with her mother is something akin to bungee diving. She can stake her claim in… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
My promise to my children: for as long as I live, I will always be your parent first, and your friend second.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But when your father announced his intentions for us, I knew I had to purge myself of the rage, because loving you...… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time drawing and writing stories, and my mother encouraged me not to use an eraser when I… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
When you speak it sounds like music to my ears you love is like candy you eyes sparkle like the stars your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I… — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
But women are always attracted to power. I do not think there could ever be a conqueror so bloody that most women… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
My mother was Welsh and I loved going to Wales every summer, where Uncle Les had a farm. My mother had seven… — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
“One of the people who’d cheered him tested the limits later when Trump referenced the recent Orlando nightclub shooting and made the… — Jared Yates Sexton Copy Share Image
“When she turned fifteen, Blue concluded that her mother’s tarot cards were just a pack of playing cards and that the dreams… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image