The prejudice was so bad in the United States at that time that a dark person with a white person would not… — Amar Bose Copy Share Image
“An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I wanted other women to know there's no shame in talking about it. People don't say they're pregnant until the second trimester.… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
It's only too easy to idealise a mother's job. We know well that every job has its frustrations and its boring routines… — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
A mum is a rose whose petals are soft, A mum is a lily whose stem is tall and strong, A mum… — Babloo Copy Share Image
My mother converted when I was 16. She was the driving force behind religion in our family. So, I'm sure I was… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I had my father's mind, but he had his mother's mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
All you crazy white people "I'm American!", all you did was come out of your mother's pussy on American soil. That's it.… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
“I’m not really sure why Ziggy puts up with me. I’m broken. Mostly because of the broken woman who spawned me. I… — Rachel A. Marks Copy Share Image
“So, I guess people figure it's not as hard to lose your mother when you never got along anyway. But they're wrong.… — Catherine Ryan Hyde Copy Share Image
“What was that about?' she demanded. 'His mother is practically gushing over you. Not to mention that he's holding your hand like… — Rebecca Donovan Copy Share Image
At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I was lucky in the sense that I started work very young but had a solid family base provided by my mother.… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
“Oh, is that right? You know, a lioness will protect her cub by baring her teeth, by roaring, using her claws to… — Steven L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said… — Brooke Burke Copy Share Image
As a teenage daughter hears her sweet mother plead unto the Lord that her daughter will be inspired in the selection of… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“Mother, listen to me. Now's your chance, do you hear? I know that when I start to talk about what I really… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think one of the great primordial fears we have once we become conscious of our aloneness as children is the fear… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
My mother struggled immensely with mental illness, and so did I. She grew up bipolar, but it was never diagnosed nor recognized.… — Petra Collins Copy Share Image
The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I never stopped being a mother, and I never stopped being an artist. Which is probably why my kids are so creative.… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be poor. She was highly literate,… — Said Sayrafiezadeh Copy Share Image
“Admitting that this job isn’t always easy doesn’t make somebody a bad mother. At least, it shouldn’t. We’re all on this ride… — Jill Smokler Copy Share Image
My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably… — Parminder Nagra Copy Share Image
I am very much a woman, but I never consider that I am when I go and make films. I don't check… — Ondi Timoner Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my mother, who had been through a lot of terrible things in life, taught me that when… — Jane Seymour Copy Share Image
Lovingly crafted and super-creative cupcakes are not exactly on tap in my household after a full day at work, and I do… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests.… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
“My mother's perpetual now, tempting me with possibility. Weren't we silly, she might say? What was the matter with us? Let's be… — Susanna Sonnenberg Copy Share Image
My late mother moved back to her parents' homeland in the 1990s when Ukraine and Russia, along with the thirteen other former… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
“It turned out to be just his sort of life in Melbourne [Florida] -- a little three-room mini apartment to himself, and… — Wells Tower Copy Share Image
“Umnandi would willingly have given up her beauty and stately mien and forgotten her skill in cookery, in return for the birth… — Sol T. Plaatje Copy Share Image
It may be that at this moment every battlement of heaven is alive with the redeemed. There is a sainted mother watching… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Parenting can be established as a time-share job, but mothers are less good "switching off" their parent identity and turning to something… — Terri E Apter Copy Share Image
“No. You’re wrong. It was something. It was a great thing. Our greatest moments are often unseen and unheard, but they are… — David Estes Copy Share Image