At age 20 I went to go find my father in Nigeria. And after much toil, I finally figured out exactly where… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“The Earth is your Mother and Grandmother. When you walk on the Earth, you are making a prayer to her.” — Burleigh Muten Copy Share Image
I was born and brought up in South Mumbai. My father, Jagdeep, is a businessman and a Sindhi. My mother is half… — Kiara Advani Copy Share Image
Even after the age of 50 it was impossible for me to see my mother as a human being. I felt she… — David Small Copy Share Image
My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going… — Angie Stone Copy Share Image
That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“It seemed like I had completed a task, overcome an obstacle. I thought about my mother, and the words she said to… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
My mother was a big influence; she was exceedingly chic, completely dressed in a completely different manner than I did. I was… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
For me fortunately, my mother was my backbone. She was an independent and fierce woman, and she made sure I am too.… — Asha Parekh Copy Share Image
“The Mother of God is asked to 'pray zealously to her Son and her God,' and the words of the psalm are… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at… — Fanny Fern Copy Share Image
I have always tried to be a woman who protects other women. I have a sister, I have daughters, I have girlfriends,… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Despite all the videos you see from the Ministry of Defence or the Pentagon, and all the sanitised language describing smart bombs… — Marie Colvin Copy Share Image
My mother is a southern lady with short dark hair and a wary, blue-eyed smile. She is also an experimental chemist and… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I had never seen hair that purely black. It was glossy and slightly long, the ends drifting over his collar. That sexy… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions. — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I… — Zlatan Ibrahimovic Copy Share Image
A mom forgives us all our faults, not to mention one or two we don't even have. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
She was the archetypal selfless mother: living only for her children, sheltering them from the consequences of their actions - and in… — Marcia Muller Copy Share Image
Think about it, I say. How many straight men maintain inappropriately intimate relationships with their mothers? How many shop with them? I… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
When I began to record 'El Mal Querer,' I didn't have a label or a team. It was just my family -… — Rosalia Copy Share Image
People associate long hair with drug use. I wish people associated long hair with something other than drug use, like an extreme… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
Metaphorically, the body becomes a machine to be driven or a garbage dump to be avoided. At the same time, the magnificent… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. — Marion C Garretty Copy Share Image
For 'Downside of Bliss,' I drew upon my own personal experiences in order to play Bliss: a penniless, single mother who is… — Lydia Hearst Copy Share Image
“It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things my mother taught me and helped me and disciplined me and made sure I stayed on… — Richard Sherman Copy Share Image
In her second career as a minister, my mother defied a legacy of chauvinism to become a leader of our community, overseeing… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
He caught me stealing his golden phoenix.' Tithonus closed his eyes briefly. 'Good grief!' He opened them again. 'I was half hoping… — Herbie Brennan Copy Share Image
But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are… — Brigid Schulte Copy Share Image
The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
