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Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The boy in the tree sobs uncontrollably when I tell him about the Hermit and my mother, yet his eyes light up… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I grew up in a very polite family, and I suppose my parents were both very polite, and from the time I… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
“Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is. When you… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Conversations about money, culture, power, class - it's at the center of my identity. I think it's a combination of being born… — Su-chin Pak Copy Share Image
I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
No touching Baby Jesus.” “But we’re his parents!” proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I always wanted to sing, I always loved to sing. As a child I was singing all the time, and my parents… — Mari Boine Copy Share Image
On becoming a mother, I sort of feel like every kid is my kid. I really do get that sense in a… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
Providing for one's family as a good husband and father is a watertight excuse for making money hand over fist. Greed may… — Eva Figes Copy Share Image
I can't stand the comfort zone. So many people I know, their parents give them their homes, and they get married and… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
“After all, you can argue – argue until you cry – about what modern, codified misogyny is; but straight-up ungentlemanliness, of the… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“When she (Miss Betsey - M. Zh.)reached the house she gave another proof of her identity. My father had often hinted that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Take two kids in competition for their parents' love and attention. Add to that the envy that one child feels for the… — Adele Faber Copy Share Image
Daughter asks her Mum: Mum, how many kinds of penises are there? Mother smiles and answers: Well dear, a man goes through… — Sharlene05 Copy Share Image
My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an… — Alan King Copy Share Image
“Father had stretched out his long legs and was tilting back in his chair. Mother sat with her knees crossed, in blue… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother was a cleaner and my father a builder. I watched both of them make big sacrifices for my brother and… — Javier Zanetti Copy Share Image
As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
“THE Superintendent said to me: "I only keep you out of regard for your worthy father; but for that you would have… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I love conversations with kids in the meet and greet lines — little people with little voices! I love babies. Someday I… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I don't remember much of my childhood. My father passed away when I was six, and sadly, I don't have the fuzziest,… — Don Willett Copy Share Image
“I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“Dodie: "Mama, Jamie's up on the hill and he's f***g a goat!" Mama: "Well, it's Jamie's goat, ain't it?" -Peter Manso illustrates… — Peter Manso Copy Share Image
My siblings, along with my parents Chris and Kath, are the reason that I am successful. Whether I wanted to become an… — Sinead Burke Copy Share Image
THE FATHER: But don't you see that the whole trouble lies here? In words, words. Each one of us has within him… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a… — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
My parents didn't let me watch TV on weekdays. I have a distinct memory of the beginning of Hulu, where you could… — Zohran Mamdani Copy Share Image
To those people who say, 'My father is alive because of animal experimentation,' I say, 'Yeah, well, good for you. This dog… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I was appalled at how children had become the focus and gravitational center of the nuclear family around which parents orbited instead… — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
“Simplification was dangerous and would later take its revenge. Only when he could hold in balance his hatred and his stunted love,… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“Father, we know ourselves to be precious and honored in your sight, and greatly loved, because you gave Jesus in exchange for… — Scotty Smith Copy Share Image
“The most difficult part of being a mother was to observe the mistakes of one's children: the foolish loves, the desperate solitude… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
On whether his church still holds that God the Father was once a man, [Hinckley] sounded uncertain, 'I don't know that we… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
My Italian granny and my mother made great spaghetti, but it wasn't a kind of southern Italian, Godfather-esque kind of thing -… — Peter Capaldi Copy Share Image