My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in… — Buffalo Bill Copy Share Image
I don't really see why some of those topical lines have to be crossed to get a point across. I want a… — Brett Young Copy Share Image
“this book has begun to grow inside me. I am carrying it around with me everywhere. I walk through the streets big… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The best-case scenario here is that you make friends with a boy who's going to die." "Ah," said Calla, in a very,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I can tell that in Refuge the question that was burning in me was, how do we find refuge in change? Everything… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“DEAR MISS MANNERS: Should you tell your mother something if it is important when she is talking to company? I am six.… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
My role relationship to the event will continue to mutate. My relationship to my mother will continue to change as I revise… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“Dellarobia noted they were not a perfect physical match: Nelda plump and rosy-cheeked, her mother fine-boned. The resemblance blazed in their wide… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Two weeks ago, Aaron and Isaac, I learned your mother Laura has breast cancer. My heart feels impaled. These words, so useless… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
My own parents divorced when I was six. I was raised with my brother Joel by our mother on the East Coast,… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
“and firstly, let me beware of the fascination that lurks in Catherine Heathcliff's brilliant eyes. I should be in a curious taking… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
Who should have children? Those who are responsible and completely dedicated to the responsibility which is actually a very small percentage of… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
“When the mother was delivered into the trader's hands, she said, "You promised to treat me well." To which he replied, "You… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
My mother, when I married, said you must have separate bathrooms and separate bedrooms. That was the only sure way of keeping… — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
All the laws and legislation in the world will never heal this world like the loving hearts and arms of mothers and… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“Her mother… told Kate that after women got out of lousy marriages, they generally had the good sense to stay away from… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother… — Sylvia Ashton-Warner Copy Share Image
“God! You'll do anything to avoid it.' Avoid what?' my mother said. The past,' Caroline said. 'Our past. I'm tired of acting… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
“Now hear a new truth. The Great Mother Herself will be forced to hide from those who are coming. She will seem… — Barbara Ardinger Copy Share Image
In my culture, my mother's sisters are also my mother. And my father's sisters are my mother's, too. So I have many… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
“Hideo," said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subject to another because they have… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Hurting a mother is one thing. She might trip you up, push you down, throw dirt on you and spit on you… — Niedria D. Kenny Copy Share Image
Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
“Before placing her in her mother's arms, she whispered, as she had at all the other births, hello, little amphibian. Someone had… — Tahmima Anam Copy Share Image
As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing… — John Piper Copy Share Image
My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I… — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
My mother taught me to always be strong and always work hard. She's been working hard her whole life for me and… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
Prana, according to the Vedanta, is the principle of life. It is like ether, an omnipresent principle; and all motion, either in… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, really. I wouldn't say… — Zara Phillips Copy Share Image
There’s something about her—Cassel, I have met many evil men and women in my life. I have made deals with them, drank… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I have fond memories of consuming a handful of almonds that were soaked the previous night and peeled the next morning. All… — Sonali Bendre Copy Share Image
“Father reaches out to touch my scarf. “Your mother’s scarf,” he says softly. “She loved this so very much, you know. I… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
What teens share online is dwarfed by what they consume. Pre-Internet, you had to hoof it to the grocery store to find… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image