The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time… — Diane Cilento Copy Share Image
If we didn't need eight hours of sleep and could survive on six, Mother Nature would have done away with 25 percent… — Matthew Walker Copy Share Image
I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music, relationships, being a good person, loving people, the whole of life. I… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
This is a nice metaphor, too, about mothers and daughters - that when it came time for me to make my own,… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
All the gold, diamonds and other jewels on earth cannot match the shine of love and care that you have bestowed upon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I've been working especially long hours, I make a point to spend an extra hour or two without my phone, doing… — Elizabeth Chambers Copy Share Image
Beauty does not lie in the face. It lies in the harmony between a person and his or her industry. Beauty is… — Jean-Francois Millet Copy Share Image
I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother,… — John Cornforth Copy Share Image
The real question today is not when human life begins, but, what is the value of human life? The abortionist who reassembles… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to take anything away from Amanda Nunes, she's a wonderful mother, but I gave birth to my daughter. I… — Julianna Pena Copy Share Image
That for me was the big turning point in my artistic life, when my wife and I had our kids. The world… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“My mother has told me once and for all the useful parts. She will add nothing unless powered by necessity, a riverbank… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
I heard the term "mamisma" when describing Speaker of the House [Nancy] Pelosi, how she was speaking from that place which is… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it.… — Mikhail Kalashnikov Copy Share Image
[My father] had a massive middle-age breakdown. And left the family. And then it just completely fell apart. And my mother was… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother.… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
After he retired, Dad worked at my uncle's boat company, a camp for kids, and eventually became County Commissioner for a term.… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
Try saying this: 'What's true for me today is that I have angry feelings concerning what I heard you say when you… — Judith Stone Copy Share Image
“But she and her mother were something else. Something that glimmered far brighter than gold. Something that made you believe there was… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
[That night] I was sitting by Jack Nicholson with my long list of thanks, and I said, 'I'm so nervous. I don't… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
All I want is all what my mother wanted for me when she raised me - to be happy. For that, I… — Hayden Christensen Copy Share Image
“Our Sun is not Earth’s true “mother.” Although many peoples of Earth have worshipped the Sun as a god that gave birth… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
But please know, Jesus never lets you down. Please know that the love and tenderness of Mother Mary never lets you down.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
My father was raised in an orphanage, and my mother was an immigrant from Poland whose first childhood memory was of hunger.… — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
I think I'll either be the world's worst mom or the world's best mom. I'd want to be there for that kid's… — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
Phil Gramm had a stump speech about how his mother's devotion kept him from being an academic failure in life. She got… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, way too often, the goal for actresses is to get cast in roles as the wife or the mother or… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
“And now she was found, no longer lost. Like a bag I'd given up for good suddenly reappearing in the middle of… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
My husband and I spend every single evening together and often see each other a lot throughout the day. I'm his wife… — Hilaria Baldwin Copy Share Image
All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
My mother was very fashion-oriented, and she started a little children's wear business that became large in this little town. She used… — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as the image of my father, whose life was spent like this, thinking of… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image