My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Mother-daughter relationships can be complicated and fraught with the effects of moments from the past. My mom knew this and wanted me… — Jenna Bush Hager Copy Share Image
Recent studies have considered the detection of a spaceship visiting our parish of the galaxy. In my opinion that last thought should… — Nigel Calder Copy Share Image
It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall… — Jack Straw Copy Share Image
After a burglary of all her most valued and treasured possessions, Winston Churchill's aging mother wrote: "That burglar relieved me of an… — Anne Sebba Copy Share Image
“The child bounded onto the bed, landing on all fours, her round face wreathed in a smile. “ Hein nei nan-ne-i-cut? ”… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm looking forward to sproglets but, as I'm the main breadwinner, I feel I ought to capitalise on my career for a… — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
I've borne the shame of mother while you bought her off with a present and a treat here and there. God knows… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on… — Kajol Copy Share Image
There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I went to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A friend of my mother's, Irene Lopez, was a Spanish dancer. She saw me bopping around the room and said to my… — Rita Moreno Copy Share Image
“Thoughtful, innovative, this mother was; she always had the solution. So on the stickiest of nights, when the varnished wood chairs sweated… — Sarah Beth Martin Copy Share Image
Before it was decided that I was going to be adopted, my mother was going to abort me. I was born with… — Lindsay Pearce Copy Share Image
I was captured by music at a really early age. I was really captured by it. Everything about it. It was my… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
My parents were immigrants from Pakistan. My father has passed away now, but my father and mother were very proud of Britain,… — Sajid Javid Copy Share Image
We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“So I take it you and Gansey get along, then?” Maura’s expression was annoyingly knowing. “ Mom. ” “Orla told me about… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I moved to Des Moines when I was 15. I asked my mother to give up costody and sign parental rights over… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
For when you looked into my mother's eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Above us all rose my mother’s hand, dangling from the column shifter like some battle-tattered flag for independence, surrounded by the glass… — BJ Ward Copy Share Image
When I feel like I'm stuck, I do something - not like I'm Mother Teresa or anything, but there's someone that's forgotten… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Unless our fundamental sacred connectedness with every being and thing is experienced deeply and enacted everywhere, religious, political, and other differences will… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
“A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not… — John Stevenson Copy Share Image
Even you ever feel that I have forgotten you, just want you to know that I have carefully placed you in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, in the past few years, we've more than doubled the editorial staff [in Mother Jones], as part of ramping up… — Clara Jeffery Copy Share Image
I think I write mostly about death and so it is interesting to hear how often people think I'm writing about pregnancy… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on… — Natascha McElhone Copy Share Image
Thank the Lord for a mother who was a general as well as a Latter-day Saint; who realized that it was a… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
I have very strong memories of my early years. In fact, I remember the house I was born in, and we moved… — Jimmy Barnes Copy Share Image
A child, thought Carl, is not the only result of childbirth. A mother, too, is born. You see them every day--nondescript women… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very well be… — Lisa Anderson Copy Share Image
At different times in my life, I've made grand statements like, 'I want these many kids, and I want them by this… — America Ferrera Copy Share Image
I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
As I got older, the role that I ended up (playing) on One Life to Live was a mother because, by then,… — Patricia Mauceri Copy Share Image
I kind of grew up with a mix of two things. One was kind of this individual work ethic that my father… — Kyrsten Sinema Copy Share Image
Her [Mary's] motherhood extends beyond view. In the will of the Son, she becomes at once mother and maid: sheltering him, but… — Adrienne von Speyr Copy Share Image
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Mother Teresa- cream. Exemplars, exemplary models we can learn from and become more like, but we don't have to imitate them. We… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
![“We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective, and learns more and does more good. And so try listening. Listen to your wife, your…” quote by Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/839/brenda-ueland-3836_beloved_we-should-all-know-this-that-listening-i_1134332.jpg)
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