Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I think if you're the son or daughter of successful actors and actresses, it's a double pressure. More is expected of you. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
A wife’s prayers for her husband have a far greater effect on him than anyone else’s, even his mother’s. (Sorry, Mom.) — Stormie Omartian Copy Share Image
I really look up to my mother and the strength that she has built in me, especially the strength in her faith,… — Nafessa Williams Copy Share Image
My mother was from an entrepreneurial family and very creative. She always pushed me to take risks, to do things I wouldn't… — Gillian Tans Copy Share Image
My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever… — David Frum Copy Share Image
When anyone plays a mother on film, there is a whole raft of judgment in that a mother is a particular archetype… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3,000,000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day. — Sam Ewing Copy Share Image
I put my parents through mini hell with my laziness and poor grades, so I love making them laugh when they see… — Kayvan Novak Copy Share Image
The only thing that would really make my mother angry would be if I liked horror movies or violence or Ronald Reagan.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
If I could blame it on all the mothers and fathers of the world, they of the lessons, the pellets of power,… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“And though it's a bleak thing to admit all these years later, still I've never met anyone who made me feel loved… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon… — Hafez Copy Share Image
My mother is always the most vulnerable person in any room, and so I definitely have that part of her inside me. — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children. — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“It struck me that, in the nicest possible way, she didn't really have a personality. She was a mother.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Hence the spiritual weariness of the conscientious mother - you're always finding out just one more vital tidbit. — Sonia Taitz Copy Share Image
When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that.… — Brooke Burke Copy Share Image
My relationship with my mother has always felt like the most complicated relationship of my life. I know I have a lot… — Wendy C. Ortiz Copy Share Image
[Motherhood] is an incredibly huge challenge. You need support. You need resources. You need access to childcare and good safe schools. — Chrissy Teigen Copy Share Image
Mothers Day is about a celebration of love, family, trust, devotion, respect, appreciation and joy as well as being a day to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale… — Angela Bassett Copy Share Image
When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me,… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
I have a lot of respect for my birth mother I know she must have had a lot of love for me… — Faith Hill Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university, — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes… — Mary Livermore Copy Share Image
My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my… — Paul Nurse Copy Share Image
I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right… — Brian Welch Copy Share Image
I have loved to cook since I was a child in my mother's kitchen. If I don't have time to cook, I'll… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
I joke that I came out of my mother with chopsticks in my hands. But one of my earliest memories is of… — Gok Wan Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you love someone like a mother loves her child, that love can turn into fear. It happens to me all… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
“Don't touch me," said the girl. "I want to be sick by myself." "That's impossible," said her mother. She continued to rub… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
I'm a working mom, so that's a big part of it for me, and in terms of parenting style - it's just… — Greta Lee Copy Share Image
No, I have not a drop of what they call white blood in my veins. My father was a full blooded Negro,… — Edmonia Lewis Copy Share Image