“It's just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, from her being on a… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
My parents were over the moon when I had some success with Christmas songs because that was the time of the year… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“My eyes narrowed. “And you’ll take me right home after we see it?” “If that’s what you want,” he said softly, running… — Andrea Cremer Copy Share Image
“His father always talked to him—so Seryozha felt—as though he were addressing some boy of his own imagination, one of those boys… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Be like an infant baby, who doesnt ask his or her mother if he or she can pee on her or not,… — HQLinesme Copy Share Image
I would hide behind my parents' legs at social events, I was even shy in front of my sisters. I was a… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
“Or maybe I was trying to break out of my skin, thinking about how my parents had been actors in roles and… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
The thing is, my fantasies about being a parent always involved fighting for my unpopular child, doing for her what my own… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I… — Richard J. Roberts Copy Share Image
“Do you guys have sunscreen?” I ask. “No,” Scottie says. “Do we have water?” “Did you bring any?” Alex asks. “No,” I… — Kaui Hart Hemmings Copy Share Image
“Do you think I could be... a good father? Like Yours. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind Copy Share Image
DEAR FATHER, give us the faith to get through our struggles today! We know You are using these difficulties to teach us… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“Janine Chassequet-Smirgel (1988) and other French Freudians, for example, argue that Freud’s phallocentrism was not just wrong, but a motivated error, defending… — Stephen A. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrotea letter in the newspapers telling how her… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“The greatest lessons I learned from my father didn't come from lectures or discipline or even time spent together. What has stuck… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain point, I had… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The one thing my mother instilled in me, well both my parents but specifically my mother - I come from a Muslim… — Iman Abdulmajid Copy Share Image
Dear God," said Nudge under her breath, "I want real parents. But I want them to want me too. I want them… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
When I was younger I was fat. I was never conscious of it and was content with who I was because I… — Archie Panjabi Copy Share Image
If I could I would run over every mother fucker who abuses animals, people, kids, I would. I'd run them over once… — Masha Mezz Copy Share Image
The one man other than my father who made the most lasting impression was an uncle, Serge B. Benson. He taught me… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Thank you," Emerson said, bowing his head and accepting the box with the tender hands of a parent holding a child. "I… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
I think we forget that part of parenthood means having to face and reject or face and embrace a kind of animal… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
“i don't know when love became elusive what i know, is that no one i know has it my fathers arms around… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“You can have all visits back home be fond experiences, if you get a firm handle on your own struggle for independence… — Wayne W. Dyer Copy Share Image
May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why?… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“Kate stood by that low bed, looking down earnestly on its occupant—that occupant that was now a person, and soon would be—O,… — Rhoda Broughton Copy Share Image
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool.… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
“Covenant children are like olive plants gathered around the table. This makes parents gardeners. Parents are not given weeds for children who… — Rich Lusk Copy Share Image
“Clary knew what made the parents around her cry, more or less openly: that everything must grow and change and--rather than being… — Marina Endicott Copy Share Image
My father was only thirty-one when he died of a heart attack, much too young for a father to die and leave… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
“Much as I love looking at the stars, I never learned to guide by them. I mark my course by people; Xander,… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“Drops of rain pattered onto her scarf and her shoulders. “Your mother had red hair,” Brigan said, lightly, as if they didn’t… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
The knowledge that you were beaten and that this, as your parents tell you, was for your own good may well be… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
