As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
America is really tough on mothers, especially going to work again. A lot of women have to breast-pump, and they can't do… — Robyn Lawley Copy Share Image
“I find it offensive to motherhood to call being a mother a job. Being a mother isn’t a job. It’s who someone… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
I can’t have it either. It affects the babies in utero.” “Nonsense,” he said, tossing his long auburn hair over one shoulder.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Neither torch nor dagger," Annabeth said firmly. "There is a third test, which I will pass." "A third test?" the pater demanded.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
My mother, Mary, has been a guiding force for as long as I can remember through the examples she's set as a… — Richelieu Dennis Copy Share Image
You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart,… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I always tell people, if a young girl read "Beloved" as her first novel, she'd have to kill either herself or her… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“She felt as if she had somehow failed him and herself by allowing his mother’s behavior to upset her. She should be… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Why don’t you want to see your mom? Did she burn your dolls in a sacrificial fire? Read your e-mail?” “She wants… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
I remember looking at my dad and wanting to understand him. I didn't want to just write the guy off. He was… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
As important as the father is in the life of a child, even he must take second place to mother during the… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
Let’s not ask Barbara Walters about how Muslim women feel. Let’s not ask Tom Brokaw how Muslim women feel. Let’s not ask… — Khalid Yasin Copy Share Image
“I went into motherhood with some pretty romantic notions about what being a mom would be like. I certainly thought that raising… — Debra Sansing Woods Copy Share Image
You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown.… — Shemar Moore Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jewelry and… — Larenz Tate Copy Share Image
I just went home to Illinois, and I asked my family, 'Are you guys planning on talking in those accents the whole… — Natasha Leggero Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen---not only on the screen. One of the most loved, one of… — Gregory Peck Copy Share Image
Pedro Almodóvar asked me to watch italian films again as homework to look at the energy of all those women from the… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
New Orleans is just so full of culture in the music content - blues, folk. I was introduced to a lot of… — Luke James Copy Share Image
We have to get to the Self beyond its physical and mental instrumentalities to realize we are not fragile mortal beings; there… — Daya Mata Copy Share Image
When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“My life has been like a battlefield, a war that could never be won unless I had her with me, and the… — Rebecah McManus Copy Share Image
The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman,… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed… — Payne Stewart Copy Share Image
My mom was my rock, my confidant and my best friend. She was an elementary school teacher who worked with students with… — Matt Barnes Copy Share Image
“God made a wonderful mother, a mother who never grows old; He made her smile of the sunshine, and He molded her… — Pat O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Part of my writing style can be attributed to my mother's impatience with comedy, because whenever I told her a story she… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“He’s only with me because I’m your sister,” I said hotly. “Diana—Demeter, she’s my mother. She decided to have me in a… — Aimee Carter Copy Share Image
For the pageants, it was my mother who got me involved in Miss America. It really gave me the opportunity to sing… — Jane Badler Copy Share Image
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said,… — Indra Nooyi Copy Share Image
My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
All your life you sacrificed your own happiness for ours. As a mother, you did everything to make things perfect for us.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn't sing and I couldn't play ball, so I said to my… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
I often saw weary little women coming to the table after most exhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes - it never tires - it endures through all; in good… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
