“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
There are mums in the kitchen at amazing pubs and that can work - it's just as tough but the pressure is… — Monica Galetti Copy Share Image
I've never written for anybody else. For me, it was a challenge. I write for me. I don't write for anybody else.… — Teddy Pendergrass Copy Share Image
The place you have to start to be any good at this, at acting, is with yourself. Everything is inside of you,… — Jane Lynch Copy Share Image
“Grass Fires" No ease for the boy at his keyhole, his telescope, when the women's white bodies flashed in the bathroom. Young,… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
I'm writing about the things I see all around me. Growing up in Mississippi, I've seen how these backward ideas about class… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel strongly about HIV/AIDS and children because I'm a famous singer, a public figure, and I'm a female and a mother.… — Peng Liyuan Copy Share Image
“Mommies are always okay because the world couldn’t get along without them. That’s what my daddy said back before he died. He… — Jason Mott Copy Share Image
The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
My first ambition in life, I made up my mind I was going to become Miles Davis. I studied music, music theory.… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
“O crowned by God with thorns and pain! Mother of Christ! O mystic wife! my heart is weary of this life And… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My mother wasn't rich, and I never seen my father. I was a street performer. I've been shot. And now I'm known… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
If I could blame it on all the mothers and fathers of the world, they of the lessons, the pellets of power,… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I put my parents through mini hell with my laziness and poor grades, so I love making them laugh when they see… — Kayvan Novak Copy Share Image
The only thing that would really make my mother angry would be if I liked horror movies or violence or Ronald Reagan.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
“And though it's a bleak thing to admit all these years later, still I've never met anyone who made me feel loved… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“God Sophie... If there were any chance we could be together... If there were any woman I'd want to be the mother… — Pamela Clare Copy Share Image
. . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection.… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“Like Mom, Zoe thought–like Mom used to. And that’s where they differed, for Zoe wrote quiet poetry suffused with twilight and questions.… — Annette Curtis Klause Copy Share Image
I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
There was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon… — Hafez Copy Share Image
My dad never decided what he wanted to do; at times he fought in the army, was a teacher, a boxer, a… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
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
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
“I want to mother the world, I thought. I have so much love. Then—I have no business being a mother. I am… — Megan Mayhew Bergman Copy Share Image
