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In the case of maternal health care, you look at, well naturally, it's the mother who's the customer, who makes the decisions.… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
When you become a parent you're endlessly obsessed with chatting to other moms and learning how they make it work - keep… — Tess Daly Copy Share Image
“The benevolent gentleman is sorry; but, then, the thing happens every day! One sees girls and mothers crying at these sales, always!… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
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My parents wielded disposal cameras and Polaroids with the best of them, occasionally begging for at least one decent photo of my… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
“That’s when I started doing the Our Father again. I have no idea why. It just sort of poured out of me.… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“If I survived at all, it would be a triumph. If I swam, it would be a miracle. As I unlocked my… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
Living in my parents' house is pretty sweet. It's not like they're rich or anything, but they're pretty nice to me, so… — Matt Riddle Copy Share Image
Musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop… — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
I was popular, and I enjoyed that, and my mother kept telling me I better take typing so I'd have something to… — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only knew… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
A mother's love is like a circle. It has no beginning and no ending. It keeps going around and around ever expanding,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother was given to a typical question: "We have always done this. Why should we do anything else?" But my wife's… — John D. Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Bond is actually my dream role. Only because it was the film I watched with my grandfathers and father from a very… — Aneurin Barnard Copy Share Image
“Parents refusing to vaccinate their children are doing something akin to allowing their kids to run about in traffic because they are… — Jennifer Wright Copy Share Image
“TO MY MIND, THOUGH, there is a third development that has altered our parenting experience above all others, and that is the… — Jennifer Senior Copy Share Image
My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
“The thing is, I can't love her, not in the real world. Because this would be degrading to me. To love someone… — Victor Lodato Copy Share Image
Mothers have a sacred role. They are partners with God, as well as with their own husbands, first in giving birth to… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“frontal brain systems, and therefore executive skills, will require approximately 25 years to develop fully. Given these factors, children and adolescents cannot… — Richard Guare Copy Share Image
My father once said there's a correlation between a nation's cuisine and its people: England, nice people, nasty food; France, nice food,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“For a while parents seemed to forget that their responsibility as parents did not cease when the child turned on the radio;… — Judith C. Waller Copy Share Image
I was told 20% of the kids in Kosovo didn't know where their parents were. This is a dreadful problem. A woman… — James Wolfensohn Copy Share Image
My mother was okay with me not playing it safe. She made an agreement with my father that I was going to… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
We will never achieve equality in the workplace until we have more equality in the home. Our plans for an extra four… — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
“I am not Menda, though that is what my mother called me. I am Tehlu, lord above all. I have come to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Much of life, fatherhood included, is the story of knowledge acquired too late: if only I’d known then what I know now,… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
For me, the fall of the Wall came at the exact right time because, I mean, I was 17, basically I hadn't… — Tom Wlaschiha Copy Share Image
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Both my parents recognized early on that I wanted to do something in comedy, and they were really supportive. They're the ones… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
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My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is no guarantee of… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
I was raised on jazz. My father, from the time I was born, used to get up early on Saturdays and Sundays… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
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The way I look at - speaking as a woman - I understand what it means to be a daughter, and to… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
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