During the summer of 2000, in the run-up to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's 100th birthday, I asked the Duke of Edinburgh… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
They can become very irritated. They can become very aggressive. Not all Alzheimer's patients are that way, but many are. My mother… — Yasmin Aga Khan Copy Share Image
My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
“I opened my eyes to find Gary and my mother sitting cross-legged up against a half-fallen wall, both of them laughing so… — C.E. Murphy Copy Share Image
Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign . . . to have been loved… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“Why did I not know that (child) birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?...Until you are the… — Anita Diamant Copy Share Image
I was one of six children, brought up by my mother in Swindon after my father died. We had all we needed… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I have been blessed in my career and I was able to afford the extra procedures and everything to have my children.… — Cindy Margolis Copy Share Image
I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
“She could make dream-worlds of her own – but no dream-world would satisfy her now. She wanted some explanation of this hard,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“We hadn’t spoken one word to each other since the death glare last night, and I couldn’t help but check both of… — Laurel Ulen Curtis Copy Share Image
My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw… — Giovanni Ribisi Copy Share Image
My mother was really against it when I said I wanted to make films. She said that I should be a civil… — Hirokazu Kore-eda Copy Share Image
I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? In what rapt ether sails the world, of which the weariest will… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The task he has chosen for himself, of wooing my mother with a bright red pickup truck, a Patsy Cline tape, and… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“When Pat Schroeder, a Harvard Law graduate, ran for office in 1972, the headlines read "Housewife" or "Mother" runs for Congress. When… — Myra MacPherson Copy Share Image
There are two keys to productive missionary work -- (1) family-to-family friendshipping (when a member family shares the gospel with a nonmember… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I think that we see war as a virtual thing and we even get to believe that bombs fall on top of… — Shakira Copy Share Image
That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still… — Bootsy Collins Copy Share Image
I was so involved in my boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that I was a girl. I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“It was like that with her mother – memory upon memory stacked together like the feathers in a wild bird, there to… — Tahmima Anam Copy Share Image
Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can… — Elizabeth Debold Copy Share Image
Barack's mother was very important to him, but he spent a great deal of his life living in a different place. So,… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
Being an older person now, I'm finding that people are calling me to play various things. Variations on the theme of mother,… — Barbara Crampton Copy Share Image
“The live, warm presence of my mother had disappeared. In its place stood this remoteness posing as Mama. Her anxiety was unbearable… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth… — Brooke Hayward Copy Share Image
When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I… — Viswanathan Anand Copy Share Image
Assad's mother was a terror. He was terrified of her and she kept saying to him, you're not like your father. That's… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“And just like that, I became my mother. We all do, if only for a moment at a time. That person we… — Soleil Moon Frye Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, my mother was born in Southampton. I have roots in Southampton, Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor. My grandfather, her father, Stefano Rullo,… — Robert Davi Copy Share Image
People say I inherited my feisty attitude on the cricket pitch from my dad, but he and I might disagree. The most… — Stuart Broad Copy Share Image
Even now, when I go over to my mother's house and dig out the old tracksuit tops I wore, it makes the… — Steve Perryman Copy Share Image
