More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
I had gone through a mother having dementia in the last couple of years of her life. She was in a nursing… — Joan Allen Copy Share Image
There was things just like not being able to date or - I'm talking like 15, 16 - like just certain things… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
When I listen to the complaints that follow just about every presidential debate, I'm reminded of the well-worn joke about the Jewish… — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
Mother is in herself a concrete denial of the idea of sexual pleasure since her sexuality has been placed at the service… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“When we first found each other, I was a mess, full of conflict and fear. His steadfastness and unwavering faith in me… — Amanda Bouchet Copy Share Image
Some of the best indicators of a country developing along the right lines are healthy mothers giving birth to healthy children who… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
It is not fashionable anymore, I suppose, to have a regard for one's mother in the way my brother and I had… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of work to be a great mother, a great daughter, and a great friend. All those things take… — Christina Milian Copy Share Image
Do you think the ability to sleep in counts as a special skill?” I asked Dad, trying to sound torn over the… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
“´Well, don´t cry about it, mother,´ said I, for the tears were gushing from her eyes, ´there, let that kiss efface the… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy… — Jennifer Haigh Copy Share Image
It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
Let the tears which fell, and the broken words which were exchanged in the long close embrace between the orphans, be sacred.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And if I don’t want you to? (Ravyn) You know, you’d look really weird in a dress and high heels. (Susan) What’s… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me… — Taye Diggs Copy Share Image
On Christmas morning when I was a child, my mother would leave a book wrapped at the foot of the bed, which… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“When you think of your mother, the word that occurs to you is too. She hugs you too hard, kisses you too… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The Golden Rule: Do unto others (as in people, Mother Nature) as you would have done to yourself. Truly know thyself, and… — Adam Rodriguez Copy Share Image
You need to be able to nurture yourself in order to be a good mother, good at your job, good at servicing… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
I studied piano from the age of three. My grandmother taught piano. I stayed at her house during the day while my… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
My mother worked for a woman, Maria Ley-Piscator, who with her husband founded the Dramatic Workshop, which was connected to the New… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
Obviously there is pain in childbirth. But giving birth is also a moment of awe and wonder, a moment when the true… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
I've never worried about anything in my life a fraction of the way I worry about my daughter. It's much more than… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
“As Miriam released my hand I felt that she and Midwife Bell had returned to a more primitive world, where men never… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Things that remind me of Mother are these: the truth ‘mid deception, a warm summer breeze, the calm within chaos, a stitch… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
The Rosary is the most beautiful and the most rich in graces of all prayers; it is the prayer that touches most… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
“motherhood is not a job at all. It is a full-time, all-consuming, life-subsuming career with no pay, no stock options, no social… — Andrea J. Buchanan Copy Share Image
“She glanced back at the young mother walking with her husband. The woman was chunky. Genetically inferior. But at that moment Alexa… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
If I could wish the Kingslayer back in chains I would. You freed him without my knowledge or consent... but what you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And then the time I was a clown and went to the hospital to visit the children, and I went into a… — John Wayne Gacy Copy Share Image
“Mother didn't say anything about our money, and she won't wish us to give up everything. Let's each buy what we want,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“float before I could swim. Ellis never believed it was called Dead-Man’s Float, thought I’d made it up. I told him it… — Sarah Winman Copy Share Image
As I got older, my mother taught me to remember that your connection with people is based on what you're allowing them… — Harris Faulkner Copy Share Image
Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
I haven't done any genealogical exploring myself, though members of my family and also of my husband's family have traced things back.… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
