It was probably my parents who inspired me most. My father was a scientist and answered my scientific questions, while my mother… — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
My mama is my best friend. We have fun, we can talk about anything, she always is on my side but really… — Reba McEntire Copy Share Image
When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home - I was playing with a friend. And… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
“I ask now, standing with my scissors among my flowers, Where can the shadow enter? [. . .] I am sick of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if… — Catherine Helen Spence Copy Share Image
I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going… — Montgomery Clift Copy Share Image
I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death.… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things… — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
“Many daughters live out their lives avoiding or abiding or arguing with their mothers-burying the long-ago injury or insult or childhood deprivation… — Victoria Secunda Copy Share Image
I heard my mother talking badly of me to people who were talking badly of me in her salon. That's probably the… — Vincent Gallo Copy Share Image
I was driving along and I got a random call on my way to my mother in law's for dinner and it… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
The hardest thing is being with other people — it's like they're on a different wavelength, but only you know it. They… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
As a mother, I - like everyone else - have to fill my gas tank in my car. I have to feed… — Cindy McCain Copy Share Image
My mother always worked and thought staying at home was a bit twee, and that you should get your act together and… — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
If any good comes out of the current famine in the Horn of Africa - amidst the pictures of mothers carrying dying… — Josette Sheeran Copy Share Image
Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
“If we believe that this particular pain is the one that will push the baby out of the womb and into our… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
“Rachel became slowly aware now, even while talking and listening to her own voice, that there might well be something universal about… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
“WHEN I WAS A boy, after my mother died, I always tried hard to hold her in my mind as I was… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“It’s just that the thing you never understand about being a mother, until you are one, is that it is not the… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
“We had used up all of our time. And I wondered if that made any difference to my mother then, as she… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t bear to think of my mother loving me but unable to face me, to stare into my eyes, to care… — Heather Sellers Copy Share Image
You have doubtless heard, my dear mother, the misfortune of Madame de Chartres, whose child is born dead. But I would rather… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
If you ever feel distressed during your day - call upon our Lady - just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, Mother of… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Many rich and powerful men would pay dearly to see the Lord or His Most Pure Mother, but God does not appear… — Silouan the Athonite Copy Share Image
“She was Mattie Tucker now, mother of three and a good forty pounds heavier, casting that burning eye over them all, reaching… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
My daughter Alexandra once told me, "Mother, you're a pioneer. Now, hardly anybody cooks, but you were one of the first to… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
Eleanor Roosevelt started off almost every early article she wrote, starting with, "My mother was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen."… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
“I never knew what Mother knowed, Like how a thread and needle sewed, And how a kiss healed boo-boos fast. Why family… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me… — Erich von Stroheim Copy Share Image
I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn't attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her.… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
My mother, Marnie Fahr Steyer, was a lifelong smoker - up to three packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day. I like to… — Tom Steyer Copy Share Image
Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I'd get up in the morning, get ready to go to school, and I would dread it. I hated it. My mother… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The 'medium' is unaware of its attractiveness, that's all. Everyone loves comics. I've proven this to my own satisfaction by handing them… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
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