My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into… — Firoozeh Dumas Copy Share Image
Even though I was 27 when I left, I still was largely treated like a child, because I wasn't married. My parents,… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was… — Hannah Lillith Assadi Copy Share Image
“As a parent, you are a powerful change agent. Sustainable human development starts in the family with conscious parenting.” — Chidi Ejeagba Copy Share Image
You transition as a mother from literally just pulling a booger out of that person's nose whenever you see one until at… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
When a parent shows up with an attitude of entitlement, understand that under it is a boatload of anxiety. — Robert Evans Copy Share Image
I don't like to gossip, but I heard that the Father telling the Son to tell the Holy Spirit to tell the… — Magdalyn Copy Share Image
Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“He was pleased that she should see death in his face at once. His mother, at the age of sixty, was going… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Our Father who art in nature, who has given the gift of survival to the coyote, the common brown rat, the English… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number… — Imelda May Copy Share Image
“Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal life:… — Emiliano Salinas Copy Share Image
When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
I think with my hands, it was catching a lot of footballs and working with my father during the summer because he… — Jerry Rice Copy Share Image
I know a lot for me, personally, the best moments have come from watching my kids have an experience I never thought… — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
I was almost tragically shy, like, clinically. I should've been admitted somewhere. I think my parents knew, but maybe they didn't think… — Joelle Carter Copy Share Image
Fear tell you that you're just existing on your own; faith reminds you that you're living and have a Father who cares. — Author Michael Mbuko Copy Share Image
Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
“He still didn't think I was good enough for you." "No father thinks any man is good enough for his daughter.” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The memory of my father is wrapped up in white paper, like sandwiches taken for a day of work. Just as a… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager -… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
Pregnancy and childbirth make a woman an instant mother. But, all the days that follow thereafter with the love, caring, nurturing, cuddling,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Modern parents can take comfort from the fact that most of our teenagers come through adolescence, too—perhaps a little bruised, maybe a… — Barbara Natterson-Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“blessed be the god and father of our lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessing in heavenly place… — Nicki Palmer Copy Share Image
A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty,… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
You spend years wishing your parents would get off your back , only to realize that they are the only ones who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's so hard [to be parent] and no matter how old you get and how experienced you get you're always scared you're… — Pat Benatar Copy Share Image
“Sometimes being a mother makes you blind. You think you know what's best and refuse to see any other way.” — Tracy Holczer Copy Share Image
I never had the guts to tell my parents that I wanted to be a filmmaker. I had to take a very… — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
I've always been a horror fan! Ever since I can vastly remember, and I think it's because I was so terrified of… — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I… — J. D. Pardo Copy Share Image
My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible. — Kate Bosworth Copy Share Image
Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer. — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, parents & children become the most common strangers. Eventually, a street appears where they can meet again.” — Chen Chen Copy Share Image
I'm very happy that people call me by my first name now. They seem to believe that I'm not just doing this… — Kyriakos Mitsotakis Copy Share Image
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