My mother took me to the British Museum aged five. I had thought people from the past weren't as good as we… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
The first thing Julian wanted to do in life, well, before he wanted to be an artist and then a musician, was… — Cynthia Lennon Copy Share Image
Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis… — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
claims about what's 'natural' have long been used to reinforce traditional gender roles and values. ... Even the notion that women should… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“Pastor Jón: The Úa who came is not the one who went away. Because in the first place Úa cannot go away,… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
My mother’s been living alone for over ten years. She gets up at six every morning. She makes herself a coffee. She… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I didn't realize that the idiosyncrasies of my mother's character had something to do with our culture.… — Michelle Zauner Copy Share Image
I was thinking (when he hit his 500th home run) about my mother and dad, about all the people in the Chicago… — Ernie Banks Copy Share Image
I think football saves many people. It can give you a life of luxury, but people don't see all the effort that… — Alexis Sanchez Copy Share Image
If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I cannot pretend that I understood my mother at the end of her life. I was trying to follow the goals she… — Liza Dalby Copy Share Image
Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence,… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Warsan means "good news" and Shire means "to gather in one place". My parents named me after my father's mother, my grandmother.… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say,… — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
“It seemed to her many years since he had begun to prepare her mind for "the place," as she always called it.… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
I was undeclared. I was in my third year of school. They said you have to decide upon a major, and my… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
At a very young age, my beloved mother passed away from leukemia, forcing my father to become a single dad. Rather than… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
“Watoto hupenda vitu vinavyong’aa ambavyo havijatulia na vilivyopangiliwa vizuri. Hivyo ndivyo macho ya binadamu yalivyo: yana unyevu na yanaakisi mwanga, hayajatulia, na… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
One of the things my mother taught me when I was a child was just keep your eye on the prize and… — Cathy Hughes Copy Share Image
Crisis or transition of any kind reminds us of what matters most. In the routine of life, we often take our families-our… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
Blacks as a group will never be equal while they have this situation going on, where the vast majority of children do… — Amy Wax Copy Share Image
“The break-hard determination to be a good person, what happened to that? How is it true I have to go now? She's… — Forrest Gander Copy Share Image
You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king,… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My mother was not a show business mother but I saw plenty of those mothers. If the kid didn't get the audition,… — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
My relationship with God developed at an early age. I was raised on a remote little ranch, where I had for company… — Brooke Medicine Eagle Copy Share Image
I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
“For a society that will tinker with any “natural” process—birth, death, aging, noses, or chicken pox—this clinging to the old-fashioned “man and… — Avital Norman Nathman Copy Share Image
I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people… — Natasha Richardson Copy Share Image
I was the go-between when my father needed to negotiate a contract whether it be our mortgage or my mother dealing with… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I… — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
When the door shuts another opens. He that would struggle with the world, and bear up in adversity, ought still to resolve… — Samuel Palmer Copy Share Image
My father has acted in over 700 films. My mother acted in one film, 'Kismat with Mithun Chakraborty,' in which my father… — Shraddha Kapoor Copy Share Image
My mother was very wary at first. And now she's come around 180 degrees. She's, like, one of my biggest fans now.… — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
