My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time. — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't… — Lights Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
Peace is the first thing the angels sang. Peace is the mark of the children of God. Peace is the nurse of… — Pope Leo I Copy Share Image
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family,… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids… — Tom DeLay Copy Share Image
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
He referred to me as an 'insufferable puffed-up prat'. This is a bit rich coming from a man who actually married his… — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I just decided to take some time off. I've been modeling since '93, '92, and that's a pretty long time. I'm a… — Carolyn Murphy Copy Share Image
I'm the daughter of a Kenyan Catholic father and a Mauritian Hindu mother, and I have a Jewish husband who was born… — Suella Braverman Copy Share Image
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty… — Roxanne Shante Copy Share Image
My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“Mother, before God," I say, my voice shaking with tears, "I swear that I have to believe that there is more for… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
