As comfortable as I was with my adoption, the nature-versus-nurture question has been a big one for me. I adore my parents,… — Emily Procter Copy Share Image
It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“I honestly never once heard them fight. They yelled at us kids all the time, but never at each other. My siblings… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
“I suppose in reality not a leaf goes yellow in autumn without ceasing to care about its sap and making the parent… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“As children, because of our dependency, we experience a sense of being powerless in a world of powerful people. If our home… — Susan Forward Copy Share Image
“over the long fabric. You are the virgin daughter of a Jewish father, so you have draped your veil over your head… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Remembering how my mother looked before she gave birth to my sister is frightening. But even more frightening is the feeling that… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
My guess is that good and bad parenting is spread fairly evenly across different social groups. But can you imagine Tony Blair… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“Our children will be most happy when they figure out who they are, and what their own purpose is in life. If… — M. Conley Copy Share Image
“I just know that, at that moment, I remember feeling like the world had turned itself inside out. It's the child who's… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My mother died when I was very young. I didn't want to be in the position I was in, but I eventually… — Prince Harry Copy Share Image
Nine planets round the sun, only one does the sun embrace. Upon this watered one, so much we take for granted; So… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
The little boy leaned against his father's chest and slowly nodded. "Yes," he said. "I heard all of the names, but I… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image
My mother tongue, Mende, is very expressive, very figurative, and when I write, I always struggle to find the English equivalent of… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
Mother Mary and the Christ energy hold a new profile on the Earth plane right now, and they will be there in… — Christine McCormick Day Copy Share Image
“I spent the day gathering flowers and weaving them into festoons, while the dead body of my father was lying within a… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
People know that both my parents were shrinks so I was sort of raised in an atmosphere where there was that interest… — Jeff Goldblum Copy Share Image
“My mother was in charge of language. My father had never really learned to read - he could manage slowly, with his… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Gen Y is depicted as self-centred and apathetic when it comes to politics, but it doesn't help that we are largely overlooked.… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
I am sure that the experience of growing up in the heart of the working class and learning from my parents, and… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
“hope you’re right, Mother, because I don’t care how highly you think of her. If she’s like Cansrel I’ll snap her neck.”… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury's magnificent work, 'The Martian Chronicles.' I had… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“You don't even have a cross," he said. His beloved was silent. "You don't even have any candles, no face of Christ,… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
“...The Arabs I rode herding cattle with your father in the fifties and sixties would do a full day’s work for twenty… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
There is nothing intrinsically better about a child who happily bounces off to school the first day and a child who is… — Ellen Galinsky Copy Share Image
“On her eighteenth birthday, my mother had disposed of a man-eating tiger that had ravaged the villages in the hills north of… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
My father had nine children, and when I had my first, he said, 'None of my kids got up in the middle… — Rosemarie DeWitt Copy Share Image
Being a working mother is not easy, but I think it helps you choose what's important in your life. If I think… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
“Grant liked kids—it was impossible not to like any group so openly enthusiastic about dinosaurs. Grant used to watch kids in museums… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“They don't respect you, they don't respect our flag, they don't respect our King and they don't respect your parents. If you… — Ong Kim Swee Copy Share Image
I am lucky to have had an attentive, curious and loving dad and heart-smart, down-to-earth, gifted mother. They changed the outlooks of… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
But the mother was marvellous above all, and worthy of honourable memory: for when she saw her seven sons slain within the… — Bible Copy Share Image
“It was frighteningly close to what he believed of his father at the worst moments - that he really was the kind… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“My sisters and I stand on the deck, the shale tile cool against the soles of our feet - for a week… — Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich Copy Share Image
“They drove farther north like that. In perfect loving antagonism. It occurred to Ted that maybe Marty was like all the red… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
A couple of years before he died, I kissed my father goodbye. He said, 'Son, you haven't kissed me since you were… — Terry Wogan Copy Share Image
“Funnier still how much faith her parents put in him, considering the fact that Jay would officially be younger than Violet in… — Kimberly Derting Copy Share Image
I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister - a near relation, a… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
