I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents,… — Erika Slezak Copy Share Image
She had given birth to me and nursed me and brought me up. She had known me before I knew myself and… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn,… — Sarah Wayne Callies Copy Share Image
“You ain’t old yet but when you get old, all the women in the village start to look down on you when… — K. Jared Hosein Copy Share Image
My mother always told me that came first. I started modeling in 11th grade and it was something that I did after… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
“But this woman was all mother. A stern one, perhaps, and autocratic at times, and somewhat hard--but after all and in spite… — Nancy Byrd Turner Copy Share Image
“For many years I was the principal companion of my mother. She was a beautiful, talented, morbid person. I think she was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Women are human beings, and human beings are a very mixed lot. I've always been against the idea that women were Victorian… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Raisin in our only outlier for now: her mother is white, she lives in a white neighbourhood, she eats white food, she… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share Image
It's such an intimate and profound relationship that it cannot be unconditional. I can only compare the intimacy of sex with the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Mother Teresa's detractors have accused her of overemphasizing Calcuttans' destitution and of coercing conversion from the defenseless. In the context of lost… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
My parents had the plan for my life from the moment my mother tested positive with me. Looking back now, I'd say… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
“My old man's a white old man And my old mother's black. If ever I cursed my white old man I take… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“When I was five, my mother and sister sat me up on the kitchen counter and explained the facts of life: the… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“A mother's heart is a vast and glorious thing. My mother's heart was expansive, having been enlarged by suffering and years of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother always cooked, every day, proper food. We didn't have fast food. It was probably pretty much meat and two veg,… — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
“He was so beautiful. He wasn’t mine. I should run to the mountains now, and hide. I should run right into his… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
My Mom just told me she Love me, I think that is the first time she ever told me that she love… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
The sort of the template of being a mother is that you're endlessly giving to the point of exhaustion. You know, that's… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
People always want to ask me about my dad. Which I get because he's a phenomenal actor, and that's for the world,… — Domhnall Gleeson Copy Share Image
There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you… — Kelly Slater Copy Share Image
During the late 1980s, I was in Delhi finishing my college and modeling. After reading an article that my mother wrote for… — Rahul Roy Copy Share Image
Nothing I have accomplished has given me more confidence than birthing my children at home naturally. I was so high after delivering… — Cindy Crawford Copy Share Image
In the West, for example, people believe they must 'pursue happiness' as if it were some kind of a flighty bird that… — Le Ly Hayslip Copy Share Image
This and the small sample size inevitably leads to stereotypes - sweeping family sagas from India, 'lush' colonial romances from South-East Asia.… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
“FIRST TIME I LAID eyes on Laura McAllan she was out of her head with mama worry. When that mama worry takes… — Hillary Jordan Copy Share Image
One day is insufficient, inefficient and incompetent enough to express any persons gratitude towards his or her mother for all the love,… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
My father never cheated on my mother. He used to cheat on me. He used to pick other kids after school. Take… — Dom Irrera Copy Share Image
Mothers seem to be in subtle competition with teachers. There is always an underlying fear that teachers will do a better job… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I have learned as a child of a single mother who worked and supported four young children to take things in stride,… — Sonja Morgan Copy Share Image
I feel strongly that Mother Teresa’s life has a great message for young people. We so often feel powerless to do anything… — Craig Kielburger Copy Share Image
Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when… — Jacki Weaver Copy Share Image
My mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish… — Richie Havens Copy Share Image
I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in… — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
People ask me what advice I have for a married couple struggling in their relationship. I always answer: pray and forgive. And… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
