Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking - that is when I am so happy.… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Mothers stay close to your daughters Earn & deserve their love & respect Be united with their father in the rearing of… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
When she (my mother) passed away, I kind of understood the commitment that she made to make sure that I could stay… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
You can just start writing, but you're gonna go off on 10 or 12 starts and weird tangents, and yeah you'll have… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
The burden God places on each of us is to become who we are meant to be. We are most fully ourselves… — Andrew Peterson Copy Share Image
Take my own father! You know what he said in his last moments? On his deathbed, he defied me to name a… — Mary Lavin Copy Share Image
My family was blue collar, a middle-class kind of thing. My father was born in Detroit, Italian-American. My mother is English. She… — Lorraine Bracco Copy Share Image
Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
A little girl came home from school with a drawing she'd made in class.She danced into the kitchen ,where her mother was… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
I live in Paris, a city where you have a lot of stylish women, so I learned a lot by observing the… — Jeanne Damas Copy Share Image
My husband Don's mother, Denise, was diagnosed with cancer, and she was given eight months to live. We decided to go and… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Sonnet of Single Mother There is no greater superpower, In the world than a single mother. Far superior to the world leaders,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If your kids see what you eat, they will probably eat it, too. I'm not going to use the old-school policy of… — Michael Strahan Copy Share Image
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we our given, is our society. Your education, and your… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
I leaned across the table towards the crumb-thrower. "Do that again," I said, loud enough to be heard over the opera singer,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
During the send-off at my wedding to the groom's house, I embraced my mother tight, and that was when I realized that… — Meghana Raj Copy Share Image
People say to me, "When did you come out?" But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I was born 20 years after my eldest sister. I was the pampered child. That kind of love gives you an almost… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
I am obsessed by the idea of silence. I went through an entire library studying art, artists and their critics, philosophers, too,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
To be a father is not simply to bring a child into this world. It is to take care of that child… — Lilian Thuram Copy Share Image
I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way...… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
Within 18 months of my parents' marriage in 1900, my mother fell in love with an Englishman who would have described himself… — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
“No, mother; no. She was really keen on Italy. This travel is quite a crisis for her.” He found the situation full… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I enjoyed a close relationship with my mother, who set a wonderful example. As such, I have always tried to be as… — Tina Knowles Copy Share Image
“My mother says I've loved too many men But I took and left something in every bed . . . It's a… — Dessa Copy Share Image
My mom lost her mom at a very early age, and she was so excited to be a mother. Sometimes that can… — Molly Gordon 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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