"There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour."
Kate Christensen
"Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly."
Frank Abagnale
"It doesn't matter who my father was it matters who I remember he was."
Anne Sexton
"He still had the power to stagger her at timessimply the fact that he was breathing that all his organs were in their proper places that blood flowed quietly and effectively through his small sturdy limbs. He was her flesh and blood her mother had told her in the hospital the day Akash was born."
Jhumpa Lahiri
"I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him."
Halle Berry
"She may be trained, but I'm fighting for my family, my home, my freedom. She's fighting for a goddamn paycheck."
Amie Kaufman
"I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher."
Bobby Knight
"What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting."
Virginia Satir
"As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean in to their families. We need to encourage men to be more ambitious in their homes."
Sheryl Sandberg
"Honestly I don't know why I have these parties'Because of your cat'That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort."
Cassandra Clare
"The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become."
Eileen Kennedy-Moore
"The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn."
Joyce Maynard
"God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her."
Magic Johnson
"During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends."
Monica Johnson
"I had no idea of the size of my bank account as a teen, and I didn't care to know. That was my mom's job, I figured that I would just find out when I turned 18. If you can't trust your mom, then who can you trust?"
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