My father was a songwriter and he had a studio, and I was always surrounded by musicians and people creating music. I… — Lorne Balfe Copy Share Image
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I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The… — Kevyn Aucoin Copy Share Image
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“The past week, Mother had denied her a pass to the market for some minor, forgettable reason, and she’d taken it hard.… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
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The sounds of many were unintelligible and undoubtedly many more called for their parents from whom they were parted by death or… — Martin Caidin Copy Share Image
My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out… — Park Geun-hye Copy Share Image
“I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I feel now like a hinge between generations, which is strange. It just happened recently. I think it's because my daughter is… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
“I wanted to go to her, but not yet. What did you say to someone who had just lost a loved one?… — Carlyle Labuschagne Copy Share Image
If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
“At Sea Oak there's no sea and no oak, just a hundred subsidized apartments and a rear view of FedEx. Min and… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but… — Henry Louis Gates 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
The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The child tends to be stripped of all social influences but those of the market place, all sense of place, function and… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know how to read. Mother was my library. I read mother One day The world will be at peace Man… — Zhu Xiao-Mei Copy Share Image
In the past there was not much social acceptance of men taking a primary care taking role at home. That has changed,… — Justin Menkes Copy Share Image
“What do you think you’re doing?” she asks, hands on her hips. Her lips quiver a bit as she speaks, though, and… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
My father gave me one of those small, box-sized travel players when I was a kid and just a handful of records… — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
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When I started writing 'My Struggle,' my father was still an issue: someone I had in me every day, someone I would… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I watched my mother be one of the most vibrant, happy women every day. She loved to smile, all the time. She… — Tabitha Brown Copy Share Image
“Jesus' own moral discipline was rooted in His discipleship to the Father. To His disciples He explained, “My meat is to do… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
“Only children simply accept the fact that their parents have the right to make choices for them. Even disobedient children never question… — The Mirror of Maybe Copy Share Image
Very often mothers go to work right away after the child is born and, unless the father or someone else stays home,… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
“The child identifies with the parent who has been betrayed because he is suffering immeasurable loss as well—the loss of trust in… — Ana Nogales Copy Share Image
“He ‘so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice was:… — Christopher Vokes Copy Share Image
My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing their relationship has had a profound… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy… — James Franco Copy Share Image
“We watch them grow, with sadness and amazement and fear. We have stepped away, but not entirely away. They know this. They… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I think everyone has experienced the realization about their parents in some way. I most certainly have. That doesn't mean you don't… — Charlie Plummer Copy Share Image
“I thank you, Wilhelm, for your heartfelt sympathy, for your well-intentioned advice, but beg you to be quiet. Let me stick it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We have looked into the general problems with adoption in the United States, and we discovered - on the basis of the… — Sergei Lavrov Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up listening to him - my parents listened more to Neil Young and Joni Mitchell - but I lived… — Sigrid Copy Share Image
My relationship with my father was absolutely wonderful. He was the love of my life and pivotal in my life. He was… — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image
“My spiritual teacher describes a person with a big ego as “a feather pretending to be an arrow.” Intuitively, this rings so… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
