And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“A child’s bond to her mother cannot be understated, and my bond with Helen was a ragged, baffling, disheartening, chaotic mess. I… — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
She was this incredible mom. With each of her kids, she did something called 'time,' where she would spend an hour each… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Looking back I realize I had the perfect family background to become the political cartoonist that I became. My father was stupid,… — Edward Sorel Copy Share Image
My father was a rags-to-riches businessman who came over in the Sixties with no money. On my mother's side, I am the… — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
“After Mary confessed that dream to him, Jack got to wondering how women felt about motherhood once their children are grown and… — Lilli Jolgren Day Copy Share Image
A few months ago I was visiting my mother, and she said that as a child I had always wanted to learn… — Mark Jason Dominus Copy Share Image
Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs… — Marie Colvin Copy Share Image
Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
And we debate whether it's a - some woman's right to tear you out of there a piece at a time! C'mon!… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. Undoubtedly, there are other routes to learning the wishes… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the thought of his mother working so hard while he did nothing would come suddenly upon his and he would rush… — E. Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is that… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite… — Tom Wlaschiha Copy Share Image
Here in the United States, a study of nearly 700 women in California showed an increased risk of fetal death among babies… — Sandra Steingraber Copy Share Image
Before every show, I would call my mother and say, 'Mummy ,I don't know how I will sing today.' But that would… — Sonu Nigam Copy Share Image
Did I tell you I finally found the perfect page-cutter? It's a pearl-handled fruit knife. My mother left me a dozen of… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
My feeling is that my body and all my things inside me - when I move, when I do everything - are… — Thiago Alcantara Copy Share Image
I was going to some fabulous party, and my taxi got stuck in traffic, and I looked out the window, and I… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“They claim this mother of ours, the earth, for their own and fence their neighbors away; they deface her with their buildings… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life.… — Andy Griffith Copy Share Image
“She had to think about the future, her mother said. Marriage. She was sixteen now. It was time. The word made her… — Kimberly Cutter Copy Share Image
My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted… — Rudolf Hess Copy Share Image
Oh, God, help me! And I walked faster, my thoughts pursuing me, and I began to run, my frozen shoes squealing like… — John Fante Copy Share Image
I may not always spell it out to you but you are everything to me. I must have often denied, but the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why do you live out here? You're a great healer; you could get work in the inner city if you wanted to.… — Hazel Blackthorn Copy Share Image
When I got pregnant, I told [Susan Sarandon ]. She said, "All right. I'm gonna tell you the thing to do when… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women.… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
The Zen Master warns: 'If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!' This admonition points up that no meaning that… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
What kept me out of trouble is going right to the edge and then... thinking that my mother would be embarrassed, and… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met… — Alexis Denisof Copy Share Image
Before my mother was a King, she climbed trees and wrestled with boys. And won. Even as a child, Coretta Scott demonstrated… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I think the gift of my mother's death, if anything so terrible can be said to have an upside to it, is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very… — Cara Delevingne Copy Share Image
Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?" "Yes, someone did." "A Man?" "A Man." "Which means," said Bod, "you're… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image