We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“that old Mrs. Bishop was lacking in the qualities that make a good mother. And saying it that way makes her sound… — Irene Hunt Copy Share Image
I'm from a very politically and socially conscious family. My mother always made a point of making us look at what was… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
It's all really nice to have my pretend Secret Service people paying me respect, but the moment I walk in the door,… — Elizabeth Marvel Copy Share Image
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks. — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody else could have gone out there with Brock Lesnar and do what I did. I stand by that,… — Roman Reigns Copy Share Image
“Zeus wanted something that would bring healing to the people who had survived the war. In my mind, there was nothing more… — Farrah Rochon Copy Share Image
Maybe I don't think I'm touching people, but I am. Sometimes I'm sitting there at three in the morning, proofreading something, and… — Micah Lexier Copy Share Image
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her quiet determined… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
[The Republicans] offer . . . a detailed agenda for national renewal. . . . [On] reducing illegitimacy . . . the… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
“You really don’t like your father, do you?” He glowered. “Let’s just say he would have eaten me if my mother hadn’t… — Dave Ferraro Copy Share Image
Mother’s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the first, I regarded myself as under obligation to my country to preserve the faces of its historic men and mothers — Mathew Brady Copy Share Image
My priorities had been changing before I had Addie but after she was born they changed completely. I don't count - my… — Kim Basinger Copy Share Image
“I suppose I saw photos of him in the papers, but I wouldn’t recognize my own mother when a press photographer had… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Apparently, my mother still thought I had too much energy so she signed me up for a local theatre group, marking the… — Alex Hogh Andersen Copy Share Image
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice-- once for… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother. — Barry Humphries Copy Share Image
If necessity is the mother of invention, it's the father of cooperation. And we're cooperating like never before. — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
From conception to delivery, it has been a great experience. I was determined to give a natural birth. — Shweta Menon Copy Share Image
Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
When people are hungry, when a mother or father is facing a child that they can't feed, you can't ask that family… — Ertharin Cousin Copy Share Image
My paternal grandmother, Isabel, was a health nurse and a mother of four, and a grandmother of eight. — Noah Reid Copy Share Image
If your taking care of your responsibilities, you have stability and your a good mom then who am I to tell you,… — Naishalova Copy Share Image
One night, my father woke me up because he'd come home with a horse. Two days later, I asked my mother where… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
I'm very traditional, believe it or not. My daughters are not allowed to date until they're at least 16 and I'm going… — Anna Benson Copy Share Image
If you ask me where do I belong, it would be somewhere in the Irish Sea almost - born in Hong Kong,… — John Rocha Copy Share Image
My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My… — Hilda Solis Copy Share Image
America should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son. — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
My mother and my grandmother would make an apple tart in different styles, and I had one per day. Every day I… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
I can say, particularly as a mother of four small children. I can talk about the coarsening of our culture. — Kellyanne Conway Copy Share Image
In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
Being a mother of two little girls, it was an absolute nightmare for me to teach them about sexual abuse. — Deepa Kumar Copy Share Image