“What did you learn, Little Father?” Cheobawn asked, catching her breath. The boy scowled at her. “It was not a fair fight.… — J.D. Lakey Copy Share Image
My family was very engaged in the world around us. My father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and an immigrant from… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
“Maybe if we both wish hard enough, I will become invisible, with watery veins and glass bones. My translucent heart will beat… — Corrine Jackson Copy Share Image
We start caring way too much about that new TV show or how many likes we're getting on Facebook or what our… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over… — Cathy Freeman Copy Share Image
I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
There are no different categories of love. There isn't one kind of love between a mother and child, another between lovers, and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There was always music in my house when I was a kid. On Saturday mornings, my mother would clean house to 45s… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her children. A woman's second priority is… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
“This would be her life, accomplishing the things her mother had never done. She never celebrated this, unlike her friends who were… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
When I started out in public life there used to be a saying we'd hear from time to time, that every man… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“My mother had tried to raise me as a Catholic, but war had deracinated whatever meager plantings her efforts had achieved. No… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“How powerful is the influence of a mother! The bond between mother and child seems to be God-designed, the perfect union of… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
We have women entering lower-paying career fields. Women are still, culturally, the primary caregivers for children, even though we would love to… — Martha McSally Copy Share Image
I can remember no time when I did not understand that my mother must write books because people would have and read… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Auroville (City of Dawn) is an 'experimental' township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India near Puducherry in South… — Mirra Alfassa Copy Share Image
I guess I can be surprised I'm alive. I'm taking a little better care of myself than when I was a young… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
“I don't think Tera is capable of working with you by her own choice, no matter how much grass you pull for… — J.Z. Colby Copy Share Image
Most of the time, when I had hits as a soloist - maybe not so much with Simon & Garfunkel - I… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
“Women are like trees, growing slowly over time. So many rings creating layers of maturity as their branches spread and reach out… — P.R. Newton Copy Share Image
“She did not seem to want to speak, or perhaps she was not able to, but she mad timid motions toward Neville,… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
When my wife was pregnant, she got very upset with me because I didnt read the baby books. She looked at that,… — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
“She pitied and despised them from the bottom of her heart, as she stood on the soft carpet, looking at the old… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“And she needed to surf some of the pregnancy websites she'd found when she first realized she was pregnant. Her friends with… — Beth K. Vogt Copy Share Image
What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness.… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
Sex makes things strained. There are lovely people in Oneida, but everyone was married to everyone else. And you had fathers and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Bad karma is the spiritual debt one has accumulated for one's mistakes from all previous lives and this life. It includes killing,… — ZHI GANG SHA Copy Share Image
I came to America because of a tennis scholarship. I really wanted to get away because I was really frustrated about my… — Boris Kodjoe Copy Share Image
Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Someone did once bow to me, and my mother immediately told them off. Although whether she was prompted by the breach of… — David Linley Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Monsoon,' I always imagined the music video being shot in India. The song had so much to do with… — Amber Mark Copy Share Image
“..I followed her out the door and watched her walk down the road towards home, hers, and the bright yard light, and… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
Well, my mother and certain other people in my life - a lot of important people - have said, "Floyd, nobody is… — Floyd Mayweather, Jr Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would ride with my daughter in the car to go make transactions. A couple of times me, her and my… — Nelly Copy Share Image
Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness…I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image