When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother’s hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

Many writers, especially male ones, have told us that it is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one’s own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave...

Earth’s tall sons, the cedar, ash, and pine, their parent’s undecaying strength declare

Martin Luther King said that it was his dream that the sons of slaveholders and the sons of slaves sit down around a table and make common good,

We believe the settlement was fair in that it provides Ms. Mack and her two sons with compensatory damages for the violation of their civil rights in that the police executed an erroneous no-knock search...

As he grew older, which was mostly in my absence, my firstborn son, Alexander, became ever more humorous and courageous. There came a time, as the confrontation with the enemies of our civilization became more...

I wanted to ask my father about his regrets. I wanted to ask him what was the worst thing he’d ever done. His greatest sin. I wanted to ask him if there was any reason...

She never called her son by any name but John; ‘love’ and ‘dear’, and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.

Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it’s shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn’t he? When a son cuts somebody’s throat the mother...

Xavier, you have given me more grey hairs than all my sons put together.’ Saul frowned, then corrected himself. ‘To be fair, you and Zed. Just try not to add to them tonight.

I give praise and honor to the Holy one of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob for the blessing of motherhood.

She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.

Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one;...

LAOCOON, n. A famous piece of antique scripture representing a priest of that name and his two sons in the folds of two enormous serpents. The skill and diligence with which the old man and...

I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As if he could just turn up, like a sock or a...

He’s one of the favourite sons of Stradey Park,

Good wombs have borne bad sons.”– (Miranda, I:2)

Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant.

Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. (“The Higgler”)

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty...

Now is the hour come, Riders of the Mark, sons of Eorl! Foes and fires are before you, and your homes far behind. Yet, though you fight upon an alien field, the glory that you...

I don’t make my own schedule – it’s constructed around my sons’ school schedules.

But sons have to be soldiers. And soldiers adapt.

I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

I complained to a friend that although I had completed six years in therapy, my mother still wouldn’t let me go. He replied, “She’s not supposed to let you go. Your father is supposed to...

Most young men are such bores. They haven’t lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.

My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.

That was when the world wasn’t so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.

I became a marine mom with the signing of a paper, but it would take a phone call, late one night, for me to fully absorb the impact this new title would have on my...

Your sons weren’t made to like you. That’s what grandchildren are for.

On this Mother’s Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

The way I saw the world changed in an instant. My eyes were opened to a need in this country that was just beginning to be recognized. The floodgates were opened, and our battle-injured warriors...

I’m so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

This is for the kids who know that the worst kind of fear isn’t the thing that makes you scream, but the one that steals your voice and keeps you silent.

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck)

I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.

I’ve felt lucky to be able to do what I have done. I’ve been able to coach my two sons [Marc and Craig], plus they’ve been able to coach with me. That’s been a high...

Dad had once said, Trust your mind, Rob. If it smells like shit but has writing across it that says Happy Birthday and a candle stuck down in it, what is it?Is there icing on...

Oh, dio mio, se fossi un angelo del Signore segnerei con una croce le porte di casa dei miei figli, in modo da tener lontano le sventure e la malattia. Purtroppo, per quell’alto incarico mi...

I remember standing on the picnic table holding the canopy. And my sons in the tent, they stay in the tent, is down on the ground, they over there crying and screaming in the rain,...

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

If I met a man who had eleven sons, the first thing I’d ask is, Are they all yours? And of course the next question I’d ask is, which one plays quarterback and which one...