Probably the most memorable even of my life is when I was born. It really made me who I am. If I… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I was the world's ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads... I asked… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
I would like to play a mother or a pregnant woman. My body of work can expand because I like challenges. I… — Daniela Vega Copy Share Image
I saw my mother go through surgical menopause, and at 35, I wasn't ready for that. I wasn't ready for the complications,… — Camille Grammer Copy Share Image
A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
My daughter gets a lot of her natural music ability from her mother because she's a world-class singer, also. — Ron Cephas Jones Copy Share Image
My mother always wanted to be an actress. She was an extra in movies and stuff. I have a feeling this is… — Kristy McNichol Copy Share Image
A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she's not only a mother, she's not only a sister,… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
...and again she wished for Sherwood, and the dappled roof of leaves that never weighed upon her. She pulled her scarf closer… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“I thought I was going to die right there on the spot. I've never heard anything so terrible in my whole life.… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture.… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
“Feelings aren’t sensible. always,” her mother said gently. “Feelings aren’t sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don’t make sense.… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
“You could argue that Liesel Meminger has it easy. She did have it easy compared to Max Vandenburg. Certainly, her brother practically… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
My wife and daughters work. My campaign manager in 2005 was a working mother. I appointed 5 women to my senior staff… — Bob McDonnell Copy Share Image
The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Being pregnant is a marvellous experience. Before, I was afraid about the idea of giving birth, but now, I'm really looking forward… — Rebecca Loos Copy Share Image
One time, my mother told me that I always eat like I'll never see food again. And I said, "I won't unless… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“This room is very powerful: Buddha, golden, holding down one side; the primordial Great Mother, black, offering her bead of mitochondria holding… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I feel being an actress is probably not half as difficult as being a mother, and I do not know when I… — Freida Pinto Copy Share Image
My father's father fought to free Crete from the Turks, who expelled my mother from her ancestral home in Asia Minor in… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
Mother Teresa, you could say many things about her, but certainly you would not say she was macho. Anything but. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I have been blessed with a family, mother especially, who started buying me fancy shoes from the time I took baby steps. — Madhura Naik Copy Share Image
I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth. — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Being pregnant is the most natural thing our bodies can do. Our grandparents did it without all these books, and they came… — Jamie-Lynn Sigler Copy Share Image
“When I was a child my mother would tell me that people lost soul in two ways: someone could take it from… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer, and my mother was like, 'No, why don't you become a lawyer?' That sort of thing. — Tom King Copy Share Image
And I think my daughter knows now that our life is split in two. Half of the year is spent with Mommy… — Michelle Williams Copy Share Image
In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
When they do actually get pregnant, most expectant mothers understandably keep the whole thing a secret because of how fragile the first… — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups. — Cathy Guisewite Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t that I truly felt bad that I’d upset my mother—it was more that I hated any debits in her column.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
