Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie, and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My mom and I are like sisters. We kind of grew up together. She always treated me as an adult. I never… — Kelly Clarkson Copy Share Image
So my mum bought a jacuzzi, and I was in there along with my father and my sister, when my mother decided… — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I started out wanting to be a fireman and would cry if my mother tried to take off my 'Emergency 51' hat,… — Ed Henry Copy Share Image
“On my way home from the junior high, I would sometimes stop at the edge of our property and watch my mother… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
My mother was born into a solidly middle-class family, but, as all too many Americans understand, everything doesn't always go as planned… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son.… — Joseph Stefano Copy Share Image
Well, my daddy, he didn't leave me much, you know he was a very simple man, but what he did tell me… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Baseball, more than any other sport, has a magical way of connecting fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren and… — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
“mother after the Greek kids’ parties because they served Italian rum cake. Covered in slivered almonds and soaked in booze, Italian rum… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
Not the man in the moon, not the groaning-board, not the speaking of friar Bacon's brazen- head, not the inspiration of mother… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There's a lot of journalism about poverty, but sometimes it just helps to see that there's a real person who becomes a… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
In my mother's church, everybody read the Bible and it was mostly about music. My mother had the most beautiful voice I… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me stack 45s,… — Dr. Dre Copy Share Image
“I shove the horrible, screaming images in my head into the dark, silent place in my mind that is getting deeper and… — Susan Ee Copy Share Image
We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“It hurt them. It hurts them still, I think. But I have tried to encourage them to see what Richard saw all… — Rory Feek Copy Share Image
I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definition of… — Josie Loren Copy Share Image
I think it's really important for my daughter to see her parents being physically fit and for that to be a part… — Ana Ortiz Copy Share Image
Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
“My mother said she already knew how I was. She could tell I was like that since I was a baby. She… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Coming to know the hidden and forgotten Mother and the marvelous wisdom of the sacred feminine as revealed from every side and… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
I began to associate with Mahatma Gandhi when he came and went in our house - together with my father and mother… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
I met my darling wife Wilnelia in 1980 when we were on the judging panel for the Miss World contest at the… — Bruce Forsyth Copy Share Image
Even his highly emotional Italian mother didn't believe that true love could blossom overnight. Like his brothers and sisters-in-law, she wanted nothing… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
When I was young, every time I criticized someone, my mother would stand me in front of the mirror and say: 'The… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
While I was writing the book, one of my children was diagnosed with dyslexia. Dyslexia is a very tiny word for a… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Women are more powerful than they think. A mother's warmth is the essence of motivation. If we could liquefy the encouragement, care… — Louise Burfitt-Dons Copy Share Image
When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
