Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I grew up in a no man's land. My mother was ultra liberated and she thought I was backward because I didn't… — Pooja Bedi Copy Share Image
“Before you blame your parents for making you shy, remember that there are many factors at work. Perhaps you were already shy… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
“The entire affective world, constructed over the years with utmost difficulty, collapses with a kick in the father's genitals, a smack on… — Jacobo Timerman Copy Share Image
One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Father, which was a beautiful name given to our male elders & we are in next succession to them. He made his… — Vijay_Rao Copy Share Image
My face is muffled in my mother's clothing. Her rhinestones injure me. See: my feet are going. Fish flee the forefinger of… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“You must have had such a great childhood with a man like that for your father. (Delphine) Yeah. All puppy dogs and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our… — Randy Harrison Copy Share Image
“I almost wish I hadn't any conscience, it's so inconvenient. If I didn't care about doing right, and didn't feel uncomfortable when… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
There are no words to describe the pain of burying a child, and specifically there is no word to label their new,… — Lisa Belkin Copy Share Image
Growing up watching WWE, they used to have bra-and-panties matches or pillow fights, and that's why my mom didn't want me to… — Bayley Copy Share Image
“I have noticed,” she said slowly, “that time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Silas continued, in his voice like velvet, "You had parents. An older sister. They were killed. I believe that you were to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Don't you ever touch my car again," Santangelo says with the same fury he had on his face when Jonah Griggs made… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
My mother really was an extraordinary, inspirational, tough, cool, sexy, funny woman and that's the kind of woman I've always surrounded myself… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“Our Mother, who art within us, We celebrate your many names. Your wisdom come. Your will be done, Unfolding from the depths… — Patricia Lynn Reilly Copy Share Image
I couldn't get away with Halloween pranks 'cause my parents owned the health food store. So, it was so easy to bust… — Arj Barker Copy Share Image
Son-Forget the father and daughter but is not forget to get his father. It is expected from his father how are the… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Fathers have a special excitement about them that babies find intriguing. At this time in his life an infant counts on his… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
My parents didn't know anything about collegiate scholarships, so they had accepted the national team training stipend, the monthly stipend that I… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
“In the jumbled, fragmented memories I carry from my childhood there are probably nearly as many dreams as images from waking life.… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
“Because the man who stood there before us was not our father. He was somebody else, a stranger who had been sent… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
That letter was your whole future, you daft prince." "It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
If my kids were to make a talking doll of me as a mother, one of my recorded phrases would be 'I… — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
Every kind of love has its distinctive features. The kind of love we feel for our parents is different from what we… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“Remember, God created us because He wanted a relationship with us. Go read Psalm 139 if you are doubting that. God knew… — Sadie Robertson Copy Share Image
I was going to show my kids that no matter what happened with their parents, parole officers and other teachers, I wouldn't… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
As a child he had grown up without a mother or even a grandmother. He had never really explored emotional relationships or… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
I would go to the office to visit my father [Pablo Escobar] and regardless of who he was meeting, he would drop… — Juan Pablo Escobar Copy Share Image
“She filled a plate for herself and sat across from him. “How do you feel?” “Like I’ve been shot,” he replied drily.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I never really had to put much thought into my race, and neither did anybody else. I knew I was black. I… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
“My daughter, Carly, has been in and out of drug treatment facilities since she was thirteen. Every time she goes away, I… — Dina Kucera Copy Share Image
“Das mine!' protested Ava, Bennie's daughter, affirming Alex's recent theory that language acquisition involved a phase of speaking German. She snatched a… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I always knew my mother loved me, but I also knew just as surely that there were moments, hours, days, when she… — Kim Brooks Copy Share Image