I'd just play 'til my hands fell off. My parents would yell at me to stop because they couldn't stand the noise… — Randy Castillo Copy Share Image
There's a definition of narcissism that when a parent is narcissistic, instead of the child seeing himself reflected in the mother's face… — Susan Sullivan Copy Share Image
My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Ah, Father! That’s words and only words! Forgive! If he’d not been run over, he’d have come home today drunk and his… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The telescope destroyed the firmament, did away with the heaven of the New Testament, rendered the ascension of our Lord and the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
if there are any heavens my mother will(all by herself)have one. It will not be a pansy heaven or a fragile heaven… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
I never wanted to become a CA. My father was keen that I become one because he thought that was the right… — Kumar Mangalam Birla Copy Share Image
“My mother neither encouraged the reading of science fiction nor did she disparage it. She told me later that there was a… — Don Borchert Copy Share Image
I was still afraid of him, I knew, but in a different way - I was no longer a child, afraid of… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
You have to be really, really confident in your decision to marry somebody. I don't think my parents were stupid, but I… — Cassadee Pope Copy Share Image
My father used to say the people of Swat and the teachers would continue to educate our children until the last room,… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. Dreams fulfilled are imperfect. And, Israel is imperfect, of course it… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
When I took over from my father, he came from the Southern Baptist background, and back 40-50 years ago, there was a… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
I was a small business owner, father, and husband just living out in the suburbs. I kind of had a boring life… — Frank Warren Copy Share Image
My father was military, so I traveled a lot, so I had 13 to 15 first days in new schools. Bullies transcend… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
“she whispered. Robb looked at her as if she’d gone mad. “Mother, stay here. I’ll come back as soon as the fire’s… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Noon. In the middle of Knoll Road. In it up to your waist, wearing your father’s old reindeer sweater, your mother’s fur-lined… — Bob Flaherty Copy Share Image
Most important is the recognition that stepparenting is different from primary parenting. It can be just as satisfying, it can be a… — Claire Berman Copy Share Image
Anyone who has ever been a mother or father and is at all honest knows from experience how difficult it can be… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
“This tradition doesn't exist for Bengalis, naming a son after father or grandfather, a daughter after mother or grandmother. This sign of… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front… — Jacob Batalon Copy Share Image
The first thing you learn is sacrifice and how to keep moving forward in life, helping your parents to put food on… — Angel Di Maria Copy Share Image
“His skin like grey bark, his eyes pale as a winter pool, time and age had worn my father to the bone.… — Jamie Wyman Copy Share Image
“Alberto Ascari says there have been atrocities, Father,” Pino said. “The Nazis have killed priests helping Jews. They’ve pulled them right off… — Mark T. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Only now that I'm a mum can I fully understand the terrible pressure parents feel buying presents for their kids. My mum… — Mel Giedroyc Copy Share Image
My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to… — Steve Case Copy Share Image
“Can we get on with this?" Father Laggan cried out. "In the name of the Father…" "I'm inviting my aunt Millicent and… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
My parents said that I was born with a sharp cry and a personality as prickly as an African hedgehog. Even worse,… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
“I remember the day when my seventh-grade teacher called my parents to tell them I’d been crying in the bathrooms at lunchtime… — Hilary T. Smith Copy Share Image
I look at the successful people that have, you know, high functioning autism and Asperger's, they're ones where maybe the parents were… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I feel like the most human among us are the weirdest among us. Those voices can be the most creative and the… — David Harbour Copy Share Image
I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their… — Kate Micucci Copy Share Image
“They could flee to Paris. To America. He had the money; she'd want for nothing. He'd take the mother, if she insisted.… — Kasey Michaels Copy Share Image
Some of my father's fellow West Pointers once asked him why I turned out so well, his secret in raising me. And… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The vicious cycle of violence is real. But if people simply stopped listening to their ignorant parents, their biased religions, their corrupt… — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Today, as you read this, there is someone in your life that needs to hear from you, perhaps your mother, father, brother,… — David Kreger Copy Share Image
According to my parents, I've always liked to tune into the conversations of others. But rather than hope for a snippet of… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
