My momma was slick as greased lightning. She knew how to get anybody and everybody to do whatever she wanted 'em to… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“Mother's got romantic notions about toiling the land - or mostly, about her children toiling the land. And with fifteen acres, there's… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
[My mother told me] stories about Nat King Cole, and Miles Davis, and seeing pictures in later years with band leaders like… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
When I say I'll murder my baby's mother, maybe I wanted to but I didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10… — Eminem Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be a reader. She was a reader. Even though she had an 11th-grade education, she was curious… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
I always advise my sons to believe that they can do whatever they want, and they do. They're very similar to me… — Bez Copy Share Image
My mother-in-law says if you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat. That if you are a part of… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
“At last she turned to the only source she could think of: her mother. Her mother was a journalist, at least in… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood,… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer… An instrument strung, but preferring… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I need to figure men out. I've been seeing men that either remind me of my mother or remind me of my… — Daisy Lowe Copy Share Image
My mother died in 1997 and I spiralled into this self-destructive vortex of trying to annihilate my consciousness. I was afraid to… — Panos Cosmatos Copy Share Image
Like every human we have to categorize ourselves, so you kind of start to build a mythos 'cause I had no information… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image
Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the… — Holly Madison Copy Share Image
I think the kind of person I am, and the kind of upbringing I have had, I have my mother's aesthetic. So… — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“People automatically estimate a mom's IQ at around her children's ages, maybe dividing by the number of kids, rounding up to the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
My mother, I want her to like my music, but she's not exactly my target audience. So I care more about the… — John Legend Copy Share Image
“The earth is our mother, it gives us nourishment, shelters us, and takes us back to her after we pass” — Bryan Lankford Copy Share Image
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter? — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
What I love doing is creating a room, with attractive paintings and colours and furnishings - very much my mother. — David Starkey Copy Share Image
All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
There is nobody I think who has brought up children in my profession who does not feel that they could have done… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
My grandfather, mother and father were gifted verbally, and my mother passed that along to me. She always made sure I was… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in. — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
“My mother belonged to that group of low IQ individuals who find everything alarming and believe that raising your voice is the… — Dr Annabelle RC Copy Share Image
“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa - not often coupled with each together, but the two people… — Anita Dunn Copy Share Image
If you want to know if a gentleman loves you,” her mother said, “there is only one true way to be sure.”… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptive parents were Finnish. I grew up in… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
Her mother, brother, grandmother, hate me in that order Public visitation We met at Borders Told her she take me back I'll… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I didn't really want to do TV earlier in my career was because it is so life-consuming, and… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
My parents got divorced when I was five. My father left for a time, and my mother had to go on welfare.… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I wanted to leave high school in 1958 and join the Cuban revolution. So the only reason I did not come to… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
[What's beautiful about my mother is] her compassion, how much she gives, whether it be to her kids and grandkids or out… — Kate Hudson Copy Share Image
I respect every mother and I believe people are entitled to use whatever benefits, claims and entitlements, if you like, that are… — Chris Bowen Copy Share Image