You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you. — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
“The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are times, Sember, when I could believe your mother had a secret lover. Looking at you makes me wonder if it… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
When I signed 'Kaaka Muttai,' a lot of directors told me that I shouldn't be doing the role of a mother so… — Aishwarya Rajesh Copy Share Image
“Anyway it was an idea of mother's and she often used to repeat it, that you ended up getting used to everything.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She may be an ignorant creature, degraded by the system that has brutalized her from childhood; but she has a mother's instincts,… — Harriet Jacobs Copy Share Image
It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
[My mother] worked in the Seagram's Building; it's kind of an iconic '60s skyscraper on a floor so high that your ears… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
“Love isn't always convenient, and it doesn't always happen the way you expect it to, Purity." Everyone is silent for a moment,… — Sabrina Paige Copy Share Image
“From her love, O, reader!--her mother-love, which, if thou wilt observe well, hath this unlikeness to any other love: tender to the… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One thing I have is that I have never been afraid to expose myself in a way, and I really think I… — John Turturro Copy Share Image
I desire before I leave the world, as my best legacy to my family,, my serious, solemn advice, to make choice of… — Robert Dabney Copy Share Image
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum. — Gareth Gates Copy Share Image
“Mother: “I’m amazed that more people don’t commit suicide. They just keep on living. It’s so hard and they just keep doing… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right. — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in… — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
“My mother, my father, and the rest of the world have done the best they can with what they have had. To… — Glynn Brown, Marlayna Copy Share Image
My mother didn't really want me to go into professional tennis. She thought it was too hard a life. — Maria Sakkari Copy Share Image
My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
My mother was a very quiet woman and people say that she didn't get much of a chance to talk because my… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
“[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
“It is not," Valency could hear her mother's prim, dictatorial voice asserting, "it is not MAIDENLY to think about MEN.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
No mother who stands upon low ground herself can hope to place her children upon a loftier plane. They may reach it,… — Julia Caroline Dorr Copy Share Image
I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my… — Jack Lemmon Copy Share Image
I was nearly 41 when I had my last child. I felt that was late, that I was pushing Mother Nature to… — Ulrika Jonsson Copy Share Image
My children are my stars. They are bright and beautiful and no matter how dark it may get, they will always illuminate… — Brii Ann Copy Share Image
As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush. — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“What sort of daughter refuses to go to her mother’s house? What sort of daughter speaks with such violence to her mother… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church. — Whitney Houston Copy Share Image
I was 22 when my mother died; my baby sister was 12. We had nothing. We had each other, but we had nothing. — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
My mother died when I was five, and all I did was sit and cry. I cried and cried and cried all… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote… — Brent Runyon Copy Share Image
I think, a lot of times, when you're a first-time mom, you just want to be so careful, and you overanalyze things… — Dania Ramirez Copy Share Image
We really have no definition of mother in our law books. Mother was believed to have been so basic that no definition… — Marianne O. Battani Copy Share Image
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