Our school demanded that each parent write their kid a five-page letter with advice. My dad's said, "Know your self-worth and what… — Kim Kardashian Copy Share Image
From being my coach as a kid, and starting his own AAU team for myself and my brothers to play... my father… — Tobias Harris Copy Share Image
My father believed in astrology. His astrologer had predicted that his daughter would become a writer someday. My father would nag me,… — Twinkle Khanna Copy Share Image
“The three conditions without which healthy growth does not take place can be taken for granted in the matrix of the womb:… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
Contrary to all we hear about women and their empty-nest problem, it may be fathers more often than mothers who are pained… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
My purpose was what my father's purpose was - to make a living and to have a family. I was going to… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
“Keep his mind on the inner life. He thinks his conversion is something inside him, and his attention is therefore chiefly turned… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Sissy had two great failings. She was a great lover and a great mother. She had so much of tenderness in her,… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I had big dreams and my parents allowed me to travel and go to these traveling teams, and to make it known… — Jordan Larson Copy Share Image
A very young girl, myself, and my 70-year-old mother all look quite different wearing some of the same clothes from my shop.… — Sonia Rykiel Copy Share Image
My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important lesson, especially for the… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
There's a cabin in Oregon I go to, which belonged to my parents. It's never been winterized. It's not a place you… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
“It's too heavy,’ ‘Yes, some knowledge is too heavy. When you are older and stronger you can bear it. For now you… — Corrie ten Boom Copy Share Image
I'm very, very blessed. But my safety, my privacy, and my respect are three things that I feel like are trying to… — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
“I am far from a perfect dad. And I always will be. But I’m a damn good dad, and my son will… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
My parents brought my sister and me to the United States to escape the communist takeover of Cuba. They sought to build… — Alejandro Mayorkas Copy Share Image
I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such… — Colin Baker Copy Share Image
I have been given something really, really special and really unique, and it is not just in and of itself having learned… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
I remember my father, who was 'somebody' in the synagogue, bringing home with him one of the poor men who waited outside… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
“You can't spell "parentry" without "try." Of course, you'll make a few mistakes. The important thing is that the mistakes you make… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“Around midnight I finally dozed, drifting on a 1950 memory where I rode through the dark of another night in the front… — Echo Heron Copy Share Image
But my father also supported human rights, freedom and self-determination for all people, including Latino agricultural workers, Native Americans, and the millions… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
“himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people.… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
“Men grew up receiving from their mothers without giving anything in return and they expect the same from their women. Could this… — Haruna Idowu Copy Share Image
My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
“You are not responsible for your parents’ happiness. Your first priority is your own happiness. Whether your parents choose to be happy… — Imran Ahmad Copy Share Image
My father was a very fun dad; he was always coaching our soccer sports teams, he made sure that we had activities… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that,… — John Mahoney Copy Share Image
“The way to break the cycle is to kill every single one of the bastards that fucked you over. Every last one… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“What do your parents do? Do they travel a lot?" My brow wrinkled. "No, they don't." I was tired of the interrogation.… — A&E Kirk Copy Share Image
My mother was a very absent mother. She was going out, she was drinking a lot, she liked to have fun. It's… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
There's a lesson to be learned out of everything we go through in life. I recall when I left [Jack Gordon], and… — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“She has that voraciousness about children. She swoops in on them. Even I, in public was a beloved child. She'd parade me… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image