I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits,… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got--and make… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think my dad would make an incredible president, and it would be great if he'd run again. But personally, for our… — Alexandra Kerry Copy Share Image
I felt so proud to be having a baby and so excited. And I felt closer to other women - to my… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
“The day has been so full of fret and care, and our hearts have been so full of evil and of bitter… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
As for myself, I do not believe in loggers, I believe in trees. I do not believe in fishermen, I believe in… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
From my mother came the idea that going down to the sea repaired the spirit. That is where she walked when she… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
I have a stepfather who isn't around just because he wants to be with my mother and sisters. There's more to it.… — Tiffany Darwish Copy Share Image
My grades put me in about 5,000th place in all of South Korea. If I kept going down that path, I would've… — RM Copy Share Image
I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
In my work as a historian and in my relationships as a friend, teacher, wife, and mother, I have come to think… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Many of us are trying to lead multiple lives: child, mother, wife, lover, star, giving small doses of oxygen to each and… — Joanna Murray-Smith Copy Share Image
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes… — Melissa Gilbert Copy Share Image
She got really mad a month ago, because she had e-mailed me a naked picture of herself - which is a nice… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
I do have a nickname with my family; I'm called Snappy, because I do get to be a bit snippy at times.… — Eliza Coupe Copy Share Image
Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Not everyone is comfortable with the kissing ritual. My husband is one of them. Her refuses to press lips with anyone except… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
My mother and father are the only people on the whole planet for whom I will never begrudge a thing. Should I… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Anyone who met him today would say, *Soldier. Fighter.* They would want him on their team. As a mother she was willing… — Lea Carpenter Copy Share Image
My mother was an extraordinary theater actor in Canada, and when I would finish school, I would go to the theater. I… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
My mother always taught me a lot of important life lessons, and she would always tell me how important it was to… — Lil Yachty Copy Share Image
“Babies of around one year old are often active by day and wake frequently at night, for no obvious reason. Then a… — Naomi Stadlen Copy Share Image
When I was a child I loved my dolls and I was practically born with a needle in my hand. I really… — Lady Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
I can't change the past and I'm truly sorry that people got hurt along the way but not everything reported in the… — Eddie Cibrian Copy Share Image
The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills me with such anxiety. I'm… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
When I moved to New York City to go college, my mother said, 'If you want to be recognized, you need to… — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If… — Connie Nielsen Copy Share Image
Even thus last night, and two nights more I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep, by any stealth: So do not… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Mom, please don't use 'the happy voice.' It reminds me of the day Tinkles died." "Who was Tinkles?" Sue asked around a… — Therisa Peimer Copy Share Image
“It has taken me twenty-eight years to be able to admit that I'm glad I did not know my mother until now.… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters, and by… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
As a child, what I was missing was so much bigger to me than what I had. My mother-mythic, imaginary-was a deity… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
My mother, she's the one who's gifted with language. She can speak Japanese, of course, Tagalog, which is a Filipino dialect, Spanish… — Tamlyn Tomita Copy Share Image
