“Become a great artist. That is the only way to justify what you are doing to everyone's life.'... I did not understand… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“My father was a Catholic, a coal miner in the Big Pit. My mother a Jew. A charwoman, when she could find… — Patrick Reinken Copy Share Image
A children's dream is their parent's dream. You can make it come true for us! Don't you realize that our dream is… — Faith Barroa Copy Share Image
“And the son bursting into his father's house, killing him, and at the same time not killing him, this is not even… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Innocent parents might have thought that a musical cartoon version of a fairy tale would be a child's ideal introduction to movie… — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy. The politicians in charge… — Wendy Davis Copy Share Image
“We passed more people, unsure of who was running and who was chasing. I saw parents carrying their young children, and pulling… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
“Always the fear of consequences. Always this terrible inertia. What he was about to do to his father was so huge, so… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was… — Megan Follows Copy Share Image
“Only a woman can carry in her body an eternal being which bears the very image of God. Only she is the… — Douglas W. Phillips Copy Share Image
“What scared Stanley the most about dying wasn't his actual death. He figured he could handle the pain. It wouldn't be much… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I had wanted to be a novelist for so long, but I didn't have a story. That story came from the death… — Robert Crais Copy Share Image
My father and mother always told me to first do work and then they'll get me to training. So in order for… — Joao Felix Copy Share Image
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
I remember driving around with my parents when I was little and looking out of the window and being very aware that… — Rankin Copy Share Image
Certainly, words can be as abusive as any blow. . . . When a three-year-old yells, "You're so stupid! What a dummy!"… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
Adolescent girls were fighting a mother's interference because they wanted her to acknowledge their independence. Whatever resentment they had was not towards… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
“My life had become some sort of sick, twisted game and the winner would be the best player. Marcus playing the part… — Kirsty Dallas Copy Share Image
“They had a nice,if not private, reunion before Rupert joined them. He didn't exactly ruin it, but if he insisted on enacting… — Johanna Lindsey Copy Share Image
“I don’t really care if their parents are same sex, lesbian or gay, straight, married, cohabitating, divorced, bi-racial or what. If they… — Teresa Reasor Copy Share Image
“...I had been with my father so constantly for so long that I knew less and less about him with every passing… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Remember that the task of a single mom is not a joke. It is very difficult for children to be raised by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would be a fine thing if ... parents would have in every bedroom in their house a picture of the temple… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I had played on the police athletic league, but my father had a unique thing, he always said, 'Before you start going… — B. J. Armstrong Copy Share Image
“We'd hoped vaguely to fall in love but hadn't worried much about it, because we'd thought we had all the time in… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
“(pg.31) "As it was, my first days on Earth were somewhat anticlimactic. Mother and Father seemed so happy tempting and corrupting that… — George Pendle Copy Share Image
My parents were wonderful Christians. They were religious, but they were not fanatical in any way. I was the one who took… — Maggie Rowe Copy Share Image
We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to have a black… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
“The only way to save them is to immediately sever them from the place where they are born. Otherwise they will always… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Our mother tongue, so far ahead of me, Displays her goods, hints at each bond and link, Provides the means, leaves it… — Ivor A. Richards Copy Share Image
“I had never met these solicitors and never met Divney but they were really all working for me and my father had… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance. I have said this before, but… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
If Christ has been given us, if we are called to his discipleship we are given all things, literally _all_ things. He… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
![“It would be a fine thing if ... parents would have in every bedroom in their house a picture of the temple so [their children] from the time [they are] infant[s] could look at the picture every day [until] it becomes a part of [their lives]. When [they reach] the age that [they need] to make [the]…” quote by Spencer W. Kimball](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae0/spencer-w-kimball-1179_age_it-would-be-a-fine-thing-if-parents-woul_3145029.jpg)
![“[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.” quote by Jonathan Capehart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e87/jonathan-capehart-4932_african-american_michael-brown-s-mom-lesley-mcspadden-is_527684.jpg)
![“It was entirely due to my mother [a devout Buddhist] and her kindness and perseverance that the family was saved from utter ruin. For a period of 17 years--from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old--my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.” quote by Chiang Kai-shek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/695/chiang-kai-shek-11937_age_it-was-entirely-due-to-my-mother-a-devou_1048783.jpg)
![“The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response to be forgotten. The technique seems to be relatively free of objectionable by-products. We recommend it, for example when we suggest that a parent 'pay…” quote by B.F. Skinner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe3/b-f-skinner-2-27274_behavior_the-most-effective-alternative-process-t_416842.jpg)
