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
“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
“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
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
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“When I ask French parents what they most want for their children, they say things like "to feel comfortable in their own… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
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
“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
“I imagined the sound of whips on black backs and the roar of the overseer over the cry of mothers being separated… — Linda Leigh Hargrove 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
