My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we… — Ice T Copy Share Image
There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
“Grief she could not feel, for there had been too much bitterness between her mother and herself to leave in her heart… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Mothers are likely to have more bad days on the job than most other professionals, considering the hours: round-the-clock, seven days a… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
“She looked up at him with dark, tragic eyes, and again he was struck by the illusion of beauty and innocence she… — Paula Altenburg Copy Share Image
My mother is American. I first went to school in America, and we came back when I was about six to rural… — Adam Rayner Copy Share Image
My mother had me on four times on TV show 'To Tell The Truth'. Four times. Only once as a contestant, but… — Cynthia Nixon Copy Share Image
My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing [my mother] for something she couldn't help, specifically… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
My mother thought I would have a hard life as a painter. My father thought the highest thing a person could be… — Alex Katz Copy Share Image
The sense that in his mother's view, he had let down his family just by being who he was... was a failure… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Mothers of America let your kids go to the movies! get them out of the house so they won't know what you're… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
In retrospect, I have come to recognise just how astounding my mother was during our childhood. She kept a woodwork shop and… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I was raised by a hard-working single mother, so my first role model was a woman. My only caretaker was a woman,… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
I was the first son and first child. When my sister came along, well, she was two years younger, and I had… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
I just feel so blessed to have had the time that I had with my mother. She made it so impactful in… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
All forms of birth--physical, intellectual, spiritual or emotional--bring one to the depths. The power to give birth originates in the creative life… — Amy Wright Copy Share Image
“This is the first real food I've had since the patisserie trolley at the Bordeaux airport," Shannon said. She took a bite,… — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
“Suddenly she understood that it is a very hard thing, to be afraid of things, and that it takes up so much… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Parents offer an open womb. More than anyone else in your life, mothers, and sometimes fathers, can kiss it, and make it… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
We all moan and groan about the loss of the quality of life through the destruction of our ecology, and yet every… — Ed Asner Copy Share Image
My father was a racing driver, his name is Don Halliday. I grew up with it all around me. I have always… — Liz Halliday Copy Share Image
As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“My mother lived alone in the ruins of the great Library, which was called Compleat, and a very passionate and dashing Library… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Being a mother is a little like 'Groundhog's Day.' It's getting out of bed and doing the exact same things again and… — Glennon Doyle Melton Copy Share Image
My mum, in 2007, was invited by some Australian friends in London to a fringe theatre play reading of an unrehearsed, unproduced… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' Remember how… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
My mother photographed Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas, right before he passed away. He was actually the first artist whose work I… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
“She watched his throat move, and then, he reached out and touched her face. "You sure are pretty," he said. "It's the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“How lucky Drew was to have this mother of hers, this constant, reliable, if at times irritating presence in her life--this mother,… — Daphne Kalotay Copy Share Image
Simone’s mother was an unfortunate mistake. Palackas, Simone’s father, was a bound demon who stumbled across her one night while he was… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The coach put me in goal, and back then, we were playing on bone-hard ground: red ash; we even trained on black… — Manuel Neuer Copy Share Image
Peace of mind just can't be bought. Trust me: Even if your conscience doesn't stop you from playing dirty to get what… — Patti LaBelle Copy Share Image
The secret of my success is my mother, who was from Dublin. All my relations are in Dublin or in the west,… — Judi Dench Copy Share Image
Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The love between a mother and her daughter is special. A mother takes her daughter under her wing and teaches her how… — Laura Ramirez Copy Share Image
I took in a foster kid that I wanted to adopt in the state where I live, and I pay taxes, said… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When a baby is born the mother in particular enters into a new larger relationship with the world. She has become connected… — Gavin de Becker Copy Share Image
Until I was seven, I was very close to my mother because I was so ill and she had to teach me… — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image
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