He basked in her barbed teasing, recalled her toughest…

“Are you going to be the kind of person who always pays the asking price?” my mother demanded. “Or the kind who fights to…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“The first time she'd gotten a short haircut-- paid for with her own money, thank you very much-- her mother had demanded to know…

— Celia Thomson

“So, this is how it started: as a secret, a challenge, a fire escape they used to dodge the hulking mass of their mother,…

— Chloe Benjamin

That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't fake it,…

— Patricia Clarkson

“Never let yourself be swayed by emotions,' her mother had said. 'Emotions are fleeting. They come and go. But reality stays with you forever.”

— Monica Fairview

“Rosie was also used to conflicting emotions, for she was a mother and knew every moment of every day that no one out in…

— Laurie Frankel

“I have learned that the love a mother has for her child is unique among human emotions. Every mother knows this insticntively, but that…

— Lisa Scottline

You cant be controlling in improv.

— Matt Walsh

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

— Carl Rakosi

We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration.

— H. Emilie Cady

Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God.

— Beth Moore

I love going to Columbia, Missouri. That is a really underrated campus. It shocked me when I went there because I really didn't know…

— Kirk Herbstreit

I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the…

— Karen Hawkins

Life is full of change. That's how we learn and grow.

— Anonymous

Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been…

— John Denver