“I thought of my mother late that night, after leaving Dorothy, as I followed the moon's path back home across the Moose… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
I believe the person who was out conquering the world, who was out fighting in the world were our fathers, so to… — Carolyn Maloney Copy Share Image
But while I'd be their daughter, while I'd eat the roast and come home from dates and wash the dishes, I would… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
Even if I had expected it, even if I had known what I was going to do with my life, it would… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
According to the three missed calls from her mother—who thought Madison had been kidnapped in the big, bad city and was now… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
My mother and I definitely got to a point where we had to have a real conversation and talk woman to woman,… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
Susan Boggs, a black runaway interviewed in Canada in 1863, said of the religious slave masters: 'Why the man that baptized me… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
I am delighted to be here in these new [Council on Foreign Relations] headquarters. I have been often to, I guess, the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Simon remembered a rhyme his mother used to recite to him, about magpies. You were supposed to count them and say: one… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
A young pregnant wife has been hospitalized for a simple attack of appendicitis. The doctors had to apply ice to her stomach… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
Freedom is on the march in this world. I believe everybody in the Middle East desires to live in freedom. I believe… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I was afraid that I would find out that I didn't work hard, that I wasn't a very good mother. I was… — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
¦¦..Dedicated to all mothers¦¦. She works 24 hours a day , Shes a Mum , Shes an Alarm Clock , A cook… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One woman, called Eva, used to visit my mother and sometimes we would call in next door to visit her. Sometimes Frau… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips,… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
How did you ever get here, Maddie Brodatt?" "'Second to the right, and then straight on till morning,'" she answered promptly-it did… — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
It was like Mama suddenly realized I was good, that she didn't have to apologize for me. It was the strangest feeling.… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
All children in the '50s were taught manners, they were taught to say please and thank you, they were taught not to… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Mothers seem to be in subtle competition with teachers. There is always an underlying fear that teachers will do a better job… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness. The technique is: Just feel… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
I am sure that hon. members will realize that I am not drawing on my imagination when I state that last fall… — Tommy Douglas Copy Share Image
When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
My mother had a life-altering stroke when I was nineteen and she died when I was twenty-three. I'm now older than my… — Victoria Redel Copy Share Image
You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But… — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication?… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under… — Henry Benjamin Whipple Copy Share Image
How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think my mother… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
17,000 children starve on this planet every single day. That fact alone should blow any conscious person out of their chair. You… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
All the Americans in the study were native born, but the height of the mother does affect the growth potential of the… — Richard H. Steckel Copy Share Image
You sense my loneliness, (...) my bitterness at being shut out of life. My bitterness that I'm evil, that I don't deserve… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
So, have you been enjoying yourself these days, Kazami?' I'm having lots of fun.' It was true. That made the sense of… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to… — Otto Rank Copy Share Image
Many of us are trying to lead multiple lives: child, mother, wife, lover, star, giving small doses of oxygen to each and… — Joanna Murray-Smith Copy Share Image
I was brought up Catholic and we show my mom, my mother, my sister and then I take pains to explain on… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I'm relieved Peeta's alive. I tell myself again that if I get killed, his winnings will benefit my mother and Prim the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
My adoptive mother tirelessly worked most of her life to build up my self-esteem. So what happened was finding her started to… — Keegan-Michael Key Copy Share Image