“In the end, I am the only one who can give my children a happy mother who loves life.” — Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard Copy Share Image
A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona. — Eric Cantona Copy Share Image
“Do the next thing, her mother always advised. It will get you through.” — Marybeth Mayhew Whalen Copy Share Image
... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“...childbirth is at best necessary and tolerable. It is not fun. (Like shitting a pumpkin, a friend of mine told me when… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception. — Jimmy Carl Black Copy Share Image
Life at home wasn't very good and I had really left by the time I was 16 and didn't go back until… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
My mother did not want cancer to interfere with my life, as she knew it would eventually end hers. — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
Great,” Simon said. “Maybe I’ll even make it back before my mother notices I’m gone. What’s the time difference between here and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's own mother Mary escaped the bone-crushing poverty of Scotland's remote Outer Hebrides for the promise of New York in 1929. — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
When people ask me what is my birth day, I say that, it was the only day on which my mom smiled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother had various jobs, from where she was regularly fired as politically undesirable. I often saw her crying and mumbling that… — Thomas Peterffy Copy Share Image
Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either… — Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
To our American neighbors, we were model immigrants, a poster family. They told us so. My father had a law degree, my… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
Love is the feeling we get when we recognize the positive attributes in another. You have to continually and actively watch for… — Michael Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
I'm from Pemberton, Wigan, and was born into a poor family. I grew up on a council estate. My dad was at… — Limahl Copy Share Image
The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Are we bereft of citizenship because we are mothers, wives and daughters of a mighty people? Have women no country--no interests staked… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
