The longer we live, and the more we think, the higher value we learn to put on the friendship and tenderness of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
He never spoke of that night again, not to your mother, not to anyone else. He was ashamed for her, for Mickey,… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
For women of my generation, it was the 'juggling act.' Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added,… — Willow Bay Copy Share Image
“Looking skyward, he searched for Loretta’s Great One, the Almighty Father to whom she gave thanks for her food. At first he… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to be a performer, and my mother started taking me to dance classes when I was five.… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
“Like a lot of lawyers in the party, my father combined uncritical devotion to the imaginary Soviet Union in his head with… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
“My mother was an excellent woman. Pious, virtuous. Kind. But she was not the intellectual equal of my father. Not by any… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We live in a reward-centered society. When I was a child, my father used to say, "It's not whether you win or… — Renee Lawless Copy Share Image
I was always in love with music, but my parents never really saw that I had talent, and it was really just… — Richard Hyung-ki Joo Copy Share Image
If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion. And as I have gotten older, I came to understand, that… — Ronnie Musgrove Copy Share Image
“The primary rule is always that a mother can’t go wrong, ever, by encouraging her child after age one and a half… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
I've inherited a Jewish sensibility and sense of humor from my parents and all those who came before me. All the Jewish… — Philip Rosenthal Copy Share Image
One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words… — Jill McCorkle Copy Share Image
My parents worked in the film industry, but they both worked behind the camera, so I like to think that I have… — Dacre Montgomery Copy Share Image
My father and his brothers never mentioned to their English wives and children that they were Jewish. Being Hungarian was exotic and… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
“(Thinking while being interrogated by the Germans) You big shots think you can decide on my life, but I have news for… — Diet Eman Copy Share Image
I am happy to have been directed by my father, Priyadarshan, in the Malayalam movie 'Marakkar.' My dad said nothing about my… — Kalyani Priyadarshan Copy Share Image
“When the weather's nice, my parents go out quite frequently and stick a bunch of flowers on old Allie's grave. I went… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor, What have you done to my boy? He's not flesh and blood, he's aluminum alloy!" The… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“According to legend, Father Earth did not originally hate life. In fact, as the lorists tell it, once upon a time Earth… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Parents are not the all-knowing, ideal people we would like you to think we are. We've made wrong choices before, and will… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers… — Wilbur Smith Copy Share Image
Couture is also a matter of respect. In the end, all of these women sewing and embroidering the clothes, whom are almost… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
“They suspected that children learned best through undirected free play—and that a child’s psyche was sensitive and fragile. During the 1980s and… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“Sylvie's sort of pregnant. Well not sort of. She is. Pregnant. Actually pregnant with a baby.' 'Oh Dexter! Do you know the… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His… — Bible Copy Share Image
I am a father and I know the feel of being a father, why wouldn't I want my gay friends to also… — Juan Pablo Galavis Copy Share Image
Parents have railed against shelters near schools, but no one has made any connection between the crazed consumerism of our kids and… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“At school, he enacted a major piece of treachery against his parents. His right hand was Evil Dad, and his left was… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I end with a blessing from Larry Hine, Brennan Manning’s spiritual director, who delivered this benediction at Manning’s ordination service: May all… — J R Briggs Copy Share Image
There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
I guess I want very much to be recognized for my abilities, for the work I put in, and yet it's still… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
I have always been fiery; I go after things. But what I learned from my mother is to step back and actually… — Kate Hudson Copy Share Image
Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
From the very start, if there was a spotlight, I would step into it. My parents wondered what to do with this… — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
Our message to parents is to focus on the process the child engages in, such as trying hard or focusing on the… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
“Men live by rules they've made for themselves. And among those rules is one specifying that women are merely commodities for men… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
