“I want us all to have real clarity about the principles of the gospel that unite us. I want us to understand… — Chieko N. Okazaki Copy Share Image
Everyone has their dates. For me, it's 1991. I can place every memory of my life either before or after this date.… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
My father was a very good amateur pianist, and he had a collection of books on technique. One of the things he… — Marc-Andre Hamelin Copy Share Image
Your mother calls and says she hasn't seen you for a long time. The first year: You invite her for a week.… — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
We feel great compassion for parents whose love and protective instincts for their challenged children have moved them to some positions that… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
My father and mother are both very smart people and I always felt I was a little short of the mark. So… — Michael Weatherly Copy Share Image
“My father used to say that sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them. I feel good… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“The ideal parent is not anxiously hanging around trying to micromanage everything. The ideal parent makes it feel that problems, difficulties and… — The School of Life Copy Share Image
A lot of my father's generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I do not like punishments. You will never torture a child into duty; but a sensible child will dread the frown of… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
“ PATTERNS OF THE “SHY” What else is common among people who identify themselves as “shy?” Below are the results of a… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
The public schools in our neighborhood were so bad that the teachers in the school said you shouldn't send your kids here.… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
I never cared but for one thing, and that is, simply to know that I am right before my Father in Heaven.… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
“To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued… — Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa) Eastman Copy Share Image
“I’ll talk to my mother,” she promised. “If I’m sufficiently annoying, I’m sure I can get the engagement period cut in half.”… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
The press criticism made me feel at times like I was someone who had landed from outer space and, to my parents,… — Divine Copy Share Image
“If we have lost faith in our vernaculars, it is a sign of want of faith in ourselves; it is the surest… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I was talking about children that have not been properly house-trained. Left to their own impulses and indulged by doting or careless… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“She has that voraciousness about children. She swoops in on them. Even I, in public was a beloved child. She'd parade me… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“She unwrapped the lamb chops from their white butcher paper and peeled a few potatoes and opened a can of peas. Her… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
“Why did she have to change and her mother didn't? She was still smoking, dating losers, drinking, and partying. She had totally… — Niki Jilvontae Copy Share Image
Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
Excalibur' was a quest for my father. I remember it was manic on the film set. And we had these massive castle… — Charley Boorman Copy Share Image
Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My mother was a very absent mother. She was going out, she was drinking a lot, she liked to have fun. It's… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
“What do your parents do? Do they travel a lot?" My brow wrinkled. "No, they don't." I was tired of the interrogation.… — A&E Kirk Copy Share Image
There's a lesson to be learned out of everything we go through in life. I recall when I left [Jack Gordon], and… — LaToya Jackson 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
“You are not responsible for your parents’ happiness. Your first priority is your own happiness. Whether your parents choose to be happy… — Imran Ahmad Copy Share Image
My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
“The way to break the cycle is to kill every single one of the bastards that fucked you over. Every last one… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that,… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image