There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
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The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the… — Andrew Sarris Copy Share Image
Louis Brandeis beloved uncle, Lewis Dembitz, was an ardent abolitionist. His mother was an abolitionist in Kentucky at a time when Brandeis… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I honor women who are not mothers. They know that motherhood is but one of the realms of womankind. The virtue and… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
“My dear child, you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
When I got pregnant with my second son, I still hadn't lost weight from the first, and since I came from a… — Rachel Hollis Copy Share Image
“The best love in the world, is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb,… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
My mother and grandmother are very supportive of me, and they always have a say in things. They also really help with… — Vidya Vox Copy Share Image
The art of never making a mistake is crucial to motherhood. To be effective and to gain the respect she needs to… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I was one of six children, brought up by my mother in Swindon after my father died. We had all we needed… — Gilbert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
I have been blessed in my career and I was able to afford the extra procedures and everything to have my children.… — Cindy Margolis Copy Share Image
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I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the… — Chad Smith Copy Share Image
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My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with… — Olivia Newton-John Copy Share Image
The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
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Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
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“love as powerful as your mother’s for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign . . . to have been loved… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“Materialized in a female body, with a life of an ordinary person, through centuries, She ascends to meet the ones that are… — Natasa Pantovic Nuit Copy Share Image
A lot of television shows, when you see births, the baby is coming out, and the wife is freaking, 'You did this… — Lennon Parham Copy Share Image
During the summer of 2000, in the run-up to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's 100th birthday, I asked the Duke of Edinburgh… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
They can become very irritated. They can become very aggressive. Not all Alzheimer's patients are that way, but many are. My mother… — Yasmin Aga Khan Copy Share Image
“Mother (fragment) ...You asked me if I would be sad when it happened and I am sad. But the iris I moved… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“It’s so dark that I can hear the sea better than I can see it. Shhhhh, Shhhhh, it says, like I’m a… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I thought I wanted to be a pediatrician because, as a second job, my mother would clean up a pediatrician's office. So… — Angela Bassett Copy Share Image
My mom was a garage sale person, save money. Come on in to the garage sale, you might find a shirt. She'd… — Louie Anderson Copy Share Image
When i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Clearly, there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks. I'll walk down the street and… — William Baldwin Copy Share Image
My books are based on the "what if" principle. "What if you became invisible?" or "What if you did change into your… — Mary Rodgers Copy Share Image
My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and… — Boy George Copy Share Image
Once you are born with a handicap, even if the handicap is resolved - as it was in my case - you… — Lady Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
O ye by wandering tempest sown 'Neath every alien star, Forget not whence the breath was blown That wafted you afar! For… — William Watson Copy Share Image
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