The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes… — Whitney Houston Copy Share Image
When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical… — Debi Thomas Copy Share Image
“I love these kids. I love them so much it steals my breath and squeezes me flat, and at the same time,… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize. — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
I did a soft drink ad some time back. Later, a mother came to me and said that her child started consuming… — Shriya Saran Copy Share Image
I couldn't carry on straight after doing 'Mother,' it was really hard. Getting my anger out was a catharsis but it was… — Goldie Copy Share Image
I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time… — Chandra Wilson Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I… — Dan Fogelman Copy Share Image
Baba Seva - Seva Efraimovna Gekhtman - was born in a small town in Ukraine in 1919. Her father was an accountant… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
“Clyde's mother was an ample, olive-dark woman with the worn and disappointed look of someone who had spent her life doing things… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“One of them is a very familiar personage. Her name is “Mother Church.” She is, in many ways, an admirable and dedicated… — Rosemary Haughton Copy Share Image
I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Yes, I remember as a child, I would potter around my mother in the kitchen and want to participate in everything she… — Nana Patekar Copy Share Image
I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a mom. Because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave… — Jennifer Love Hewitt Copy Share Image
motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I'm going to have to go out there. She had a mother and a brother. See who's still around and can look… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I don't do my mother's cooking. Because I am a professional and she isn't. Even if she is a better cook. — Ferran Adria Copy Share Image
I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope. — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and when the necessity is survival she can be one mean mother, but… — Darien Fawkes Copy Share Image
When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child. — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
My aim in homeschooling is to give my children the ability to be an adult learner, a skill set that will last… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
My parents are huge influences on me. My mother was an English teacher. My father played professional rugby and coached rugby for… — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
Mother Earth is hurting. And she needs a generation of thoughtful, caring and active kids like all of you to protect her… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Cancer has affected my family; my mother and father have battled cancer. I know how tough it is. — Stone Cold Steve Austin Copy Share Image
Our mothers put God first when they fill their highest mission within the walls of their own homes. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house,… — Bonnie Tyler Copy Share Image
Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
There's this amazing girl that stole my heart from day 1 and he calls me 'Mom'. I wouldn't have it any other way! — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Bill Clinton may in fact be moving back into the White House. And coincidentally I'm thinking about moving back into my mother's… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
It was hidden inside another book. One Valentine was unlikely to ever open." Magnus smiled crookedly. "Simple Recipes for Housewives. No one… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“I doubt you would recognize an adventure of any sort if it came right up and bit you on the a--- Mother!… — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months. — Gisele Bundchen Copy Share Image
