“When you spend weeks on end close to another person, so close that you know every hiccough, every smell and every scratch… — Frederik pohl Copy Share Image
Ever since my mother sent me to Saturday morning grammar classes when I was 7, I wanted to become a famous actor.… — Jack Gleeson Copy Share Image
My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left when I… — Georgia Holt Copy Share Image
I don't think these women are stupid. I think they're selling a personality that's very marketable: Wouldn't it be fun if we… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
My mother sent me and my sisters to Italy every year for language school, so I spent a lot of my teenage… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
And with regard to the Italian family we portrayed on 'Everybody Loves Raymond' - Italians and Jews do share two traits: all… — Philip Rosenthal Copy Share Image
I'm sorry I never really believed," I said. "Not the way Jack did." "It doesn't make any difference," my mother replied. Her… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“One little second of pleasure, a whole life of pain...my mother knew nothing of the pleasures of a good roll in the… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“My mother was everything to me…and then I got married…and my husband became everything to me. It struck me then… Regret was… — Cécile Rischmann Copy Share Image
Parents who have fought fiercely for the rights of their much-loved Gay and Lesbian children should not have to worry that their… — Christine Gregoire Copy Share Image
Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer. I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
You were the one to teach me how to spot what is important in life and what is not. Today I feel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
My son was about five or six months old, and he was ill, and I was sent to New York to interview… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
The more I live, the more I recognize that the teaching moments in my youth, especially those provided by my parents, have… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
I remember the different things that were happening to my family as we were getting situated and buying our first home in… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
“supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a… — Colin Meloy Copy Share Image
The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. I'll… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but then he was promoted… — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood… — Anita Baker Copy Share Image
As a child, he had hardened his heart and learned to take their punches. He had learned to spit back and take… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands… — Michelle Trachtenberg Copy Share Image
I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
I'm a huge advocate of all sciences. And my favorite - actually, not my favorite because I love all sciences - but… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
“I don’t tell my mother what happened the night before. I’m too embarrassed to tell her that I allowed that fat nasty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“It was the winter after Mother died, and Mrs. Corbett and some of the Brother's wives came to call. They kept bleating… — Jessica Spotswood Copy Share Image
Do you really think we'll ever--" "I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. He leaned over and kissed my… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
People planted seeds into me. Older cats gave me the game. My family, especially my mother, gave me the game and I… — Jay Rock Copy Share Image
I once wrote on my MySpace profile that music is never authentic. It was a reaction to constantly reading the word 'authentic'… — Sophie Hunger Copy Share Image
My mother was always deeply attracted to anything medical, and I think she would have loved me to have been a doctor.… — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
