In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“and the wind gathered the leaves as a mother gathers her children and blew them irrevocably, lovingly, into the haunted wildness” — Elliot Mabeuse Copy Share Image
“My mother—with all the embarrassment and hurt that she caused me in my youth—ended up giving me the drive and the fire… — Vernon Davis Copy Share Image
Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength — Barbara Katz Rothman Copy Share Image
The tattoo that means the most to me would probably be my Chinese symbol on my neck. It means love - I… — Kane Brown Copy Share Image
My mother taught me what it is to have a sense of humour; my dad, who was a headmaster, everything you need… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby. — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
Why, then, does water-form the very basis of life in all life's various manifestations? Because water embraces everything is in and all… — Theodor Schwenk Copy Share Image
“I had never been into society; for me the world was the enclosure of the college and the seminary. I had a… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be… — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
You know, honey, Natalie's expecting her second." I arched my eyebrows at my mother, not following the change of subject. "Second what?… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
I was my father's son and my mother's daughter. There was never any time when I felt I wasn't equally capable -… — Linda McMahon Copy Share Image
I think that the language that we use is a ritual, that my [maternal] grandmother was called "Big Mama" is a ritual,… — Jamilah Lemieux Copy Share Image
Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
But where did this veneration of childbirth come from? I missed that meeting. Childbirth is wonderful, childbirth is a miracle. Wrong. It's… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I always told my mother I wanted a job where I could have a lot of fun and have a lot of… — Sherman Hemsley Copy Share Image
My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
“It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Was I a perfect gastric-bypass patient? Yes. Was I a perfect gastric-bypass pregnant woman? No. I made a decision to enjoy my… — Carnie Wilson Copy Share Image
My wife's a really keen baker, and her mother is also a really keen baker, so they were giving me a little… — James Buckley Copy Share Image
It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is. — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
“Regardless of its quality, no one wants to destroy what they created after so many sleepless nights. This is what distinguishes an… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did. — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
My mom [has] always been my hero. Watching her experience something like breast cancer was pivotal, I think in my whole family's… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
When your mother gives you confidence about anything that you do, you carry that confidence with you.She made me believe that I… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
I am very close to my daughter. I talk to her, not as a child, but as a young developing person. — Tisca Chopra Copy Share Image
In philanthropy, you have to take the attitude of a mother... You have to be patient, and we have been very patient… — Shiv Nadar Copy Share Image
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill… — Nancy Friday Copy Share Image
My mother told me you marry whoever you want to, as long as you are happy. My parents are very accommodating, and… — Sangram Singh Copy Share Image
I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday,… — Constance Marie Copy Share Image
My daughter, unfortunately, is ill, because drug addiction is an illness. She's been fighting it for years. — Columba Bush Copy Share Image
Why communitarian socialism? Now not only do we have the pursuit of happiness for man, as a government, as a program or… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
My mother knows struggle and has taught me how to lead with compassion, the compassion that should be required for every representative… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom… — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
Oh yeah, I believe in God. I think there's much more evidence that there is a God than that there isn't. I… — David Zucker Copy Share Image
There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image