And you must tell the child the legends I told you--as my…

As a story teller I have always been fascinated with our legends, these can be re-told time and time again. And there is always…

— Shobana

A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in…

— Caroline Llewellyn

“When I was a child, my mother would try to convince me of a woman's need for a secret stash. "It can be anything:…

— Zinzi Clemmons

“I am old enough to be married twice. I am old enough to be bedded without tenderness or consideration. I am old enough to…

— Philippa Gregory

“There are two truths," said Katie finally. "As a mother, I say it would have been a terrible thing for a girl to sleep…

— Betty Smith

There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old…

— Betty Smith

“But I would tell Mother none of this. Nor would I tell her that at the hour of his death, I was floating free…

— Sue Monk Kidd

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

— Les Paul

Tell my mother, tell my father I've done the best I can.

— Shinedown

“When I was a boy, my mother would tell me that one of the best things in life is the knowledge that our story…

— Renee Ahdieh

“Parthenogenesis means never having your mother tell you to stop doing that or you'll go blind.”

— Seanan McGuire

Tell mother, tell mother, I died for my country... useless... useless.

— John Wilkes Booth

“I also began writing letters to the editor in response to news coverage or issues of the day; one of them, about Islam and…

— Souad Mekhennet

As anyone who is a father or mother out there can tell you, it's pretty amazing.

— John Isner

“As she looks through the photos, she says quietly, “We had a lot of happy times together. I hope you remember some of them.”…

— Kenny Porpora