“{Calpurnia)"My mother…she’s desperate for a daughter she can dress like a porcelain doll. Sadly, I shall never be such a child. How… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
“My mother, of course, had a different opinion. 'They're driving me crazy!' she said, swatting at them with her beige Coach handbag.… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
A central feature of the ceremonial associated with Mithras was the taurobolium, the ritual slaughter of a bull which commemorated and repeated… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
My father passed away when I was two, and my mother was just 22-years-old back then. So young and only soul to… — Bharti Singh Copy Share Image
“After my mother died, there wasn’t a day that went by that I didn’t think about her, didn’t miss her. Not just… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
“Carlos,” her mother said, her voice soothing, and Sarah wondered how her mom managed to sound so calm. “I know you wanted… — L.A. Banks Copy Share Image
I'm not perfect, I'm not an angel, but I try to live a certain way because it brings honour and respect to… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
When I went to school, my intention was to be a lawyer. When I attended university that was still the clear intention;… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
When 'Frozen River' started to get really big, I was four months pregnant. So when these agents and directors wanted to meet… — Reed Morano Copy Share Image
Just the responsibility of wanting to see my mother have a better life; making sure my sister had a better life. I… — Yo Gotti Copy Share Image
Mother, sister, daughter, wife, cousins - they are a part of your everyday life. You interact with them, communicate, altercate and that… — Vikram Bhatt Copy Share Image
“It was time to face the second hardest fact in her life; she had a dead mother, and a father who was… — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
I was told a lie from the pit of hell: that my baby was just a blob of tissue. The aftermath of… — Jennifer O'Neill Copy Share Image
I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of… — Portia Doubleday Copy Share Image
Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child?… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My mother gave me an understanding that as good as you think you are, you're not so great. There's always room for… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
“the sickness of drugs or her reasons for turning to drugs to escape her reality. I did that for a while and… — Toya Wright Copy Share Image
Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
“Even as we grew up, my mother could not help imposing herself between her children and whatever it was they might take… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Actors, producers and directors have a responsibility. My personal pledge, since I became a mother 12 years ago, is that I won't… — Tichina Arnold Copy Share Image
It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
“My mother laughed and told me she was only doing what mothers have always done for their sons. Then she told me… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I think nobody alive today is a more powerful agent of conversion than someone like Mother Teresa. You can refute arguments but… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Every time the Houston Texans play at home, DeAndre Hopkins' mother, Sabrina Greenlee, sits in the same spot in the end zone,… — Mina Kimes Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic… — Rachael Harris Copy Share Image
When youre a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend its really boring, but its not. Its enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A woman has a right to a safe, legal abortion. I've never wavered in that position since I was, like, eight years… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
Historically, and even now, women have been asked to give up on their dreams way more than men, mostly - because it's… — Susan Kelechi Watson Copy Share Image
The myth of motherhood as martyrdom has been bred into women, and behavioral scientists have helped embellish the myth with their ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
