“Let me tell you something, dearie: the world is a closed door to an unwed mother and her illegitimate child. If” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
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“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward… — Tara Lain Copy Share Image
Parents do not Preach all the time, they are showing you the trail. Hidden in the teachings given to them to learn… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she… — Siobhan Fallon Hogan Copy Share Image
“You talked to your mother about Duncan's erectile dysfunction?" He glared down at her. "Has he considered taking your TV away?” — Dana Marie Bell Copy Share Image
“Not all sons were like their fathers. A son chose the man he would be. Not all daughters were like their fathers.… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
I had this duality growing up with my dad being a strict Catholic and his brother being a priest and my mother… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
“When the senile patient awakens in the morning and asks for his mother, remind him that she is long since dead, that… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The person who is working on his or her family history fits the description of one who is fulfilling his or her… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“He could see now that asking the dead about his father was nearly useless, so burdened were they with their own losses… — Ari Berk Copy Share Image
“You know why I am here?" asked the headmaster. Swaminathan searched for an answer: the headmaster might be there to receive letters… — R.K. Narayan Copy Share Image
“For her the war came suddenly closer when, on Wednesday 23rd August, she received a telephone message from the local police that… — Norman Longmate Copy Share Image
There must be no fear, no begging, but demanding - demanding the Highest. The true devotees of the Mother are as hard,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is no other parent for Inez. When I was working, I never got to hear about her day or chat about… — Laila Rouass Copy Share Image
“My parents warned me about horror movies Blood and guts and Stephen King. They told me to stop reading such disturbing stories… — Holly Riordan Copy Share Image
For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of my father's films. I'm crazy about my father and his movies. If I promote his movies,… — Dulquer Salmaan Copy Share Image
Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks… — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
She [Chien-Shiung Wu] is a slave driver. She is the image of the militant woman so well known in Chinese literature as… — Emilio G. Segre Copy Share Image
My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going… — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
“Yet I felt he was innocent in a way I was not, that I knew more about evil than he ever could,… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“I don't have a choice sahib. Artho hi kanya parakeeya eva father used to say" "What does it mean?" "It means a… — Ranjani Ramachandran Copy Share Image
On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
When I entered the profession, I didn't make a big deal of it. People didn't really know I was my parents' son. — Tom Burke Copy Share Image
“Mother often said that she could never be bothered to understand why Alice did the things she did, and now, more than… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
My mother desperately wanted to give her kids a wholesome environment, and we were born into a traditional Catholic family. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Not having a father helping you grow into manhood and teaching you those things about how to be a man hurts. It… — John Starks Copy Share Image
“Live your life somewhere in between Ayn Rand and Mother Theresa. It's just as important to better yourself as it is to… — Gregor Collins Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to be accepted as an actress, I think, because of the modeling and because of my… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man... but there was something about me that drove him crazy. — Dominick Dunne Copy Share Image
The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
My father was an important person, the director of the school. He could talk to anybody - simple or educated. He liked… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
So much were we together that Nanny became almost a part of me. Consequently, it was my occasional encounters with my parents… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
We went bankrupt. My parents got divorced. I was going to a super-rich kids school and suddenly we had to shift to… — Sajid Khan Copy Share Image
My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and theyre like, his hair is out of control. — Bradley Cooper Copy Share Image
My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well,… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment. "Which one is that?" I asked her. "Do not bullshit… — Erich Segal Copy Share Image
“We are now parents. The love for our offspring has opened up fresh fountains of love for each other. Edwin Stanton to… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image