As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
If my father could have sat up in bed and said goodbye, I'd have pressed the button. I wouldn't have been able… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I… — Tone-Loc Copy Share Image
The fault of upbringing or association, today the son are murders mother, and daughter pulling lint tend to father respect — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Women who become mothers are policed and regulated during pregnancy, forced to give up so much - work and ambition, often. — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
My biological father and I had a really good relationship at one point. He was one of my close friends and gave… — Katie Cassidy Copy Share Image
“There just comes a point where you realize it is time to show up for your parents, no matter what has passed… — Kim Severson Copy Share Image
The day I won an Emmy was also the day my father passed away. I received a call from my sister on… — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy Copy Share Image
“The girls were taught by their mothers and grandmothers to look seriously upon life, to shun the frivolous, and to avoid giggling.… — Frank Bird Linderman Copy Share Image
No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who… — Silvan Shalom Copy Share Image
“My mother once made a quilt from dozens of pairs of second- and third- and fourth- hand blue jeans that she bought… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it feels like I live in such a shit town. It meets all reasonable definitions of a shit town. There are… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitarist like B.B. King. I was… — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
It's also hard for me to understand growing up not knowing where I came from. I searched for my parents - I… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
My parents didn't raise me to be religious. The closest we come to worship is the Trinity of Visa, Mastercard, and American… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Bad parents are too lazy to try any discipline at all, and let kids run wild and be everyone's problem. Good parents… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Day after day with them, I see more and more of my parents in me. I see where all my quirks come… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“He [Cupid] was Love [Eros] reborn. And as he was born after his parents coupled as Love-Birds, he was born with little… — Nicholas Chong Copy Share Image
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Every man will tell you little boys should not play with dolls but ask any mother and they will tell you, every… — PETER FRYER Copy Share Image
My mother's always looking for answers. She's always searching for new information. I think she has a thirst for hunger that very… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Whenever I won an award in the NHL, I thought of my father and the pride he would get in reading about… — Jacques Plante Copy Share Image
I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Now that I have a child of my own, I'm in awe of - and deeply grateful for - the time my… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
I don't really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get… — RJ Mitte Copy Share Image
“My mother makes up for all shortcomings because she birthed Ginnie. I might not have loads of friends, but Ginnie is enough.… — Lindsey Leavitt Copy Share Image
Right now I'm trying to help my sister with her school situation, 'cause she's real smart. Besides me, my other brother's a… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't… — Lights Copy Share Image
All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parent's… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
My parents fled from North Korea during the Korean War because they despised the North Korean Communist regime. They fled to seek… — Moon Jae-in Copy Share Image
Occasionally there are parents who say, "I brought my child so he or she could learn what the career of a writer… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I think that it's the passion for the game that we have and just the work ethic. We try to work as… — Malcolm Subban Copy Share Image
As a mom, I want to be that mother that steers her children to be whatever they want to be, but also… — Erica Mena Copy Share Image
However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
1 John 2:15) Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the… — GODDEY WILSON Copy Share Image