If truly angels were created with each individual from heaven then I wouldn't disturb myself in finding mine, for I know my… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed… — Malcolm Mclaren Copy Share Image
Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“My mother describes me as 'a real hero . . . just like your grandfather'. But I do not know what to… — Jake Wood Copy Share Image
My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher,… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Helda's been trying to impress me with the embroidery on the sheets. One more minute and I thought I might use them… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Later as the day cools and they have gone in, the cry of the corncrake will carry across those same fields and… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
The radical left is doing everything they can to destroy the moral fiber of America. They want to do away with the… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“There, just beyond his open palm, was our mother’s face. I wasn’t expecting it. We hadn’t requested a viewing, and the memorial… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my… — Pat Summerall Copy Share Image
“No doubt Richard's father, like my mother, had once held his infant son in his arms, looked into the eyes of his… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
“They carry their past in them as though safekeeping it for someone else. Very often they look at me and say, poor… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Copy Share Image
My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. You are connected to your child and to all… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
A woman's decision to carry a baby to term knowing that she will not reap the fruits of motherhood should be treated… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one… — John Irving Copy Share Image
For my birthday, I would ask for a ticket from my mother. Just buy me a ticket to said country and I'll… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
I blame Rousseau, myself. "Man is born free", indeed. Man is not born free, he is born attached to his mother by… — Katharine Whitehorn Copy Share Image
No human being should ever have to fear for his own life because of political or religious beliefs. We are all in… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of… — Magic Johnson Copy Share Image
I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were… — Evander Holyfield Copy Share Image
We had a hoop in our backyard. My dad, my mother, my brother played, just playing around. I picked up a basketball… — Lauri Markkanen Copy Share Image
I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think there's a tremendous amount of guilt that goes on between mothers and daughters, no matter how good or bad their… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I've changed in my sympathies since I've become a mother myself. In high school I went through a period where I was… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There's a repression against mothers where we're expected to be full-time workers and pretend we're not mothers, and then expected to be… — Catherine Reitman Copy Share Image
Modern women are squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea, and there are no lifeboats out there in the form… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
“Clementine was thankful her husband understood his mother so thoroughly. She couldn’t imagine how difficult it would be if Ralph was one… — Tessa Arlen Copy Share Image
My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
To get the best picture of a captured prisoner, you have to get him just as he is captured. The expression he… — Horst Faas Copy Share Image
The amazing thing about becoming a parent is that you will never again be your own first priority. The gift of motherhood… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
I've inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father's hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
