The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My mother was a schoolteacher and very keen that I go to a city school, so although it was fairly impoverished times,… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
“Laborsaving devices do not necessarily save time, but they increase our expectactations of what mothers should accomplish” — Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett Copy Share Image
I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.' — Natasha Leggero Copy Share Image
I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
“kicked out of nursery school that day. If my mother hadn’t been the most patient person in the world, I might never… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
When I took my oath of office to serve as your Governor, remember, I swore to steadfastly and doggedly guard the interests… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
“Mr. Rubenstein says he likes to apply the “mother standard” to giving. “When I built Carlyle, my mother didn’t call to say,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Motherhood involves a special communion with the mystery of life, as it develops in the mother's womb. The mother is filled with… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Obviously, my tastes and my priorities have changed. But I'm still asking the question 'Why?' Just because I'm a mother doesn't mean… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
One of the hazards of making a major discovery early in your career is the burden of expectation, not helped in my… — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
I was a welfare worker for the Indian Council for Child Welfare. I'll tell you a story. Rajiv was only four years… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
What knowing the Mother means above all is daring to put love into action. The Mother herself is love-in-action, love acting everywhere… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
Your mother betrayed my father as well as her Clan. You have no right to be a medicine cat. No right to… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
My mother and father come from that post-Depression, middle-of-World-War -I kind of thinking that says, 'Find a practical job. You know what… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
From my mother to people that I've known in my lifetime, they've tried to settle me down a little bit. Now I'm… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I owe everything to my mom. She definitely got me to where I'm at today. Without her I wouldn't be able to… — David Lambert Copy Share Image
Mothers suffer in the workplace. That fact is by now so painfully familiar it even has a name: the motherhood penalty. — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most… — Nicole Appleton Copy Share Image
I brought my daughters actually to Staples Center to watch me live in the ring - to watch their mother compete in… — Stephanie McMahon Copy Share Image
If I walk in a home and a kid disrespects a woman, his mother or grandmother, then I am out... I wont… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
My mother and I have always had a very close relationship, so I wanted to honor my mom by naming my daughter… — Lacey Chabert Copy Share Image
My mother is the best not because she cooks great or wash my clothes well… she is the BEST because she gave… — MHARWHYN Copy Share Image
I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in… — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
They say that your second trimester is when you get most of your energy and it's the 'easiest' part of the pregnancy. — Malin Akerman Copy Share Image
“My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“A good mother... when you CRY, she CARRIES you; when you are HUNGRY, she will HURRY to feed you; when you are… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I do want to have children, but my parents had me when they were in their forties. I'd like to copy that. — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
I think I'm extremely lucky to have been able to go through a separation with the mother of my child and us… — Michael Clarke Copy Share Image
My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
When I was very small, the electricity was turned off because we didn't pay the bill. I remember sitting by the oil… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
My mother drove back to the intersection. "Who are you dating?" "Don't ask," I said. I wasn't dating anyone. I was fornicating… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“Liar. You've loved me since I held your hand at your mother's memorial service when you were five years old.” — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor. — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
Now that our mother has died, we're two orphans, Angie and I, so she has a deep understanding of the orphans she… — James Haven Copy Share Image
