My family didn't have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
My mother was really young when she had me, so she was a horrible cook, but we lived with my grandmother, who… — Debi Mazar Copy Share Image
I was really drawn to thinking about the women in my life. Thinking about my mother, who's a very powerful force on… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
One day I was in my room and some thing was telling me to go outside so I did, so I was… — Deanna Cotton Copy Share Image
Mary and Jesus had this extraordinary relationship between them. What a teacher Mary is, really. It is the ultimate trusting; that she… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
I lived in the Caribbean when I was a teenager, so I learned about Salsa and Cha-Cha and all these Latin Afro-Cuban… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
“Dr. Bone Specialist came in, made me stand up and hobble across the room, checked my reflexes, and then made me lie… — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My problem is I live with only women - be it my mother, wife, daughters, cook, and nurse - who are all… — Prakash Raj Copy Share Image
When I look in the mirror, I see my late mother: I have her nose, her dark eyes - I call them… — Marie Osmond Copy Share Image
How can you possibly believe he really loves you?” Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier’s hand.“You… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
WHY WE PEOPLE ARE CELEBRATING MOTHERS DAY. Even We know this, all days are given by Mother(God).So, instead of one day, celebrate… — Chakshu Aggarwal Copy Share Image
It is challenging. I have my days where I feel really guilty that I've been here every day if I have to… — Ellen Pompeo Copy Share Image
I grew up in India during the 1960s and '70s in a meat-eating Hindu family. Only my mother and my grandparents were… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“ I was father to the land. I saved my people. I was... King. "By... earth," he said, more a movement of… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
And one of the things I noticed pretty early on in art school was that my classmates had no notion of an… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
It was weird because I was pregnant, throughout that so it was weird being a pregnant witch. I was in a really… — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
If there is no cost to be paid for the indiscriminate dumping of pollution into the earth's atmosphere, then it should be… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane'... I bought books… — Nancy Bird Walton Copy Share Image
Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
I must have taken your presence for granted many-a-times. However the truth is whenever I'm scared in a crowd, it is your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people are not coming because of me. They didn't come before me. It's because of a lack of education and understanding,… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
As clichéd as it sounds, relationships between women do shape so much of our understandings of ourselves, starting with our mothers. I… — Kerry Cohen Copy Share Image
Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
I have always gone to nature, since I was a kid. I was brought up in the woods, I did not have… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
My father was one-eighth Cherokee indian and my mother was quarter-blood Cherokee. I never got far enough in arithmetic to figure out… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The fabric of my life is under my skin; [but] it's definitely not something that comes up in a conscious way when… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. My mother's battled depression, so… — Dorothy Hamill Copy Share Image
My mother was raised very, very strict Catholic in the Midwest. There was so much fear and intimidation [in the faith]. So,… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
I remember getting notified that I won an award, and I gloated up a storm to my mother, and I was so… — Lindsay Mendez Copy Share Image
“Still, this moment belongs to the two of them, Mom and this handsome stranger. He reaches the passenger side door and stares… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Southwest Bronx. Father an accountant, mother a schoolteacher. Brother was six years older, which explains why I… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“some like to imagine a cosmic mother watching through a spray of stars, mouthing 'yes, yes' as we toddle towards the light,… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Ah man. I remember the days of lying to my mother about a boy. Once I had a boy hidden in the… — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
My mother would apply castor oil to my lashes every night. That was kind of torturous, because I would wake up with… — Shobana Copy Share Image
“As for you, yes, your mother doesn’t understand you, and your temper scares her. However, the only reason she is so nervous… — Bry Ann Copy Share Image
The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all --… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Mum , You may be treated like the maid , you may be treated like the gardner , you may be treated… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image