“My spiritual teacher describes a person with a big ego as “a feather pretending to be an arrow.” Intuitively, this rings so… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
I grew up in a no man's land. My mother was ultra liberated and she thought I was backward because I didn't… — Pooja Bedi Copy Share Image
I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
“Because the man who stood there before us was not our father. He was somebody else, a stranger who had been sent… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
That letter was your whole future, you daft prince." "It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Fathers have a special excitement about them that babies find intriguing. At this time in his life an infant counts on his… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“In the jumbled, fragmented memories I carry from my childhood there are probably nearly as many dreams as images from waking life.… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
My parents didn't know anything about collegiate scholarships, so they had accepted the national team training stipend, the monthly stipend that I… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
Don't you ever touch my car again," Santangelo says with the same fury he had on his face when Jonah Griggs made… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
My mother really was an extraordinary, inspirational, tough, cool, sexy, funny woman and that's the kind of woman I've always surrounded myself… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“Silas continued, in his voice like velvet, "You had parents. An older sister. They were killed. I believe that you were to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Son-Forget the father and daughter but is not forget to get his father. It is expected from his father how are the… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I couldn't get away with Halloween pranks 'cause my parents owned the health food store. So, it was so easy to bust… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
“Our Mother, who art within us, We celebrate your many names. Your wisdom come. Your will be done, Unfolding from the depths… — Patricia Lynn Reilly Copy Share Image
Growing up watching WWE, they used to have bra-and-panties matches or pillow fights, and that's why my mom didn't want me to… — Bayley Copy Share Image
“I have noticed,” she said slowly, “that time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new,… — Lisa Belkin Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know how to read. Mother was my library. I read mother One day The world will be at peace Man… — Zhu Xiao-Mei Copy Share Image
The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
In the past there was not much social acceptance of men taking a primary care taking role at home. That has changed,… — Justin Menkes Copy Share Image
“I wanted to go to her, but not yet. What did you say to someone who had just lost a loved one?… — Carlyle Labuschagne Copy Share Image
I feel now like a hinge between generations, which is strange. It just happened recently. I think it's because my daughter is… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
“Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tenderness in her,… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“At Sea Oak there's no sea and no oak, just a hundred subsidized apartments and a rear view of FedEx. Min and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“The past week, Mother had denied her a pass to the market for some minor, forgettable reason, and she’d taken it hard.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“It is good I came, my father. You have the gift. Already my heart is lighter.” Many Horses ran his tongue over… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The… — Kevyn Aucoin Copy Share Image
My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out… — Park Geun-hye Copy Share Image
“I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“The fact is that an unscrupulous tyrant mobilizes the suppressed fears and anxieties of those who were beaten as children but have… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or… — Martin Caidin Copy Share Image
The only reason we write - well, the only reason why I write; maybe I shouldn't generalize - is so that I… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Dear Heavenly Father, We pray for those who are living silence, locked in the room of depression to where they are taking… — Author Anita R. Sneed-Carter Copy Share Image
