I started out performing as a little boy, I was trying to make my mother feel better and laugh because she was… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Never The Same All FATHERS are Men but not all MEN are Fathers. All MOTHERS are Women but not all WOMEN are… — Amoh Nketiah Dennis Copy Share Image
Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
“The fires within the earth are nothing to what you’re feeling right now, failed mother that you are.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also… — Caroline Corr Copy Share Image
Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers. — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
Some good news. Finally, President Bush is going to do something about global warming. He became alarmed when another chunk of ice… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
My first car was, as depicted in 'Sleepwalk with Me,' my mother's '92 Volvo station wagon that had 80,000 miles on it,… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
My mother, when she was younger, worked at Filene's in Boston. And she was chief cashier. And I always wondered why she… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I remember Anthony Perkins saying, "Real is not necessarily interesting." So real is not enough. But what happens as an actor is… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit.… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The wish to be understood may be our most vengeful demand, may be the way we hang on, as asults, to our… — Adam Phillips Copy Share Image
The art of not experiencing feelings. A child can experience her feelings only when there is somebody there who accepts her fully,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Sometimes we talked about the nature of the human soul and about the Cosmic Unity of souls that I had believed in… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her. — Linda Lavin Copy Share Image
“Besides, who would think of marrying a mothball? A question my mother put to me often, later, in other forms.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity.” — D. Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort… — Dorothy Hamill Copy Share Image
Everybody's looking for the niche to make the difference. Some people think they see the mother lode in the beautiful people, especially… — Suzanne Fields Copy Share Image
I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you! — George M. Cohan Copy Share Image
Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
I'm not saying my mother-in-law is fat - because she is of reasonable size, and I care about her and her self-image. — Bernard Manning Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is, you lose a parent to murder when you're 10 years old, and in fact at the… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
My father might have got me to 5.80 m, but I definitely give just as much credit, and maybe even more, to… — Armand Duplantis Copy Share Image
I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Because I feel no anger toward my mother. Only loss, and loss is a feeling you can’t fight your way out of… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“The great irony of motherhood is that while you sometimes long for someone else to be in charge, it is next to… — Rachel Balducci Copy Share Image
A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
I have been a total brat since my childhood. Because of me, my mother's day was over by afternoon as just managing… — Amit Trivedi Copy Share Image
If some gang were threatening your family, you'd go looking for someone butch to help, right? Any maybe if your mother were… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Whether it was making my bed or making a movie, my mother and father never hesitated to say how proud they were… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
I celebrate this special day for a special someone who is the source of inspiration and guiding light for the entire family.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in… — Bei Dao Copy Share Image
The poem that became the song 'Gold All Over the Ground' was written during 1967, when my dad was really falling in… — John Carter Cash Copy Share Image
What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy? — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
