My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life. — John Wesley Copy Share Image
My mother was a big influence. She kept pushing me because I was very shy and inhibited. And schoolwork was very difficult… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father… — Geraldo Rivera Copy Share Image
When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life. — Patricia Kaas Copy Share Image
Here is a little mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
Growing up, my father coached my basketball team, and my mother drove me into St. Louis for various rehearsals between musical productions… — Taylor Louderman Copy Share Image
My great-grandmother, who was known as Nana, passed away before I was born, but she and my mother were very, very close.… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
In my experience (I am the lone father of an eight-year-old boy who lost his mother when he was one year old),… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
I grew up going to church every Sunday and my mother was a drug and alcohol counselor, so both of my parents'… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
Your father tells you a story when you're a kid, or your mother or your uncle or whoever it is. You sit… — David Chase Copy Share Image
We have women entering lower-paying career fields. Women are still, culturally, the primary caregivers for children, even though we would love to… — Martha McSally Copy Share Image
Love for all means coldness to something or someone. Even Jesus, let us recall, was unnecessarily rude to his mother at Cana. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
A child, thought Carl, is not the only result of childbirth. A mother, too, is born. You see them every day--nondescript women… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
I have never seen the Almighty God. But whenever I see my mother I realize the God may be like her. Who… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I was born in Pittsburgh and my mother personifies that Steel City grit that makes the city what it is. — Jason Taylor Copy Share Image
Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks… — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college… — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage. — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
Alice Roosevelt Longworth was only a few years older than my mother but outlived her by a decade, dying in 1980. From… — Katharine Graham Copy Share Image
Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I think that's the most beautiful thing about being confident - just loving yourself, not caring what everybody else thinks. Because you… — Joanna Krupa Copy Share Image
My grandmother went to church, but my mother had been inundated with church and decided that when she had children, she would… — Gloria Gaynor Copy Share Image
My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the toddler's "No" is also a preliminary to his saying yes. It is a sign that he is getting ready to… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
There's random people calling my phone: 'Your mother gave me your number.' My mother has tried to set me up so many… — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife — Jonathan Schattke Copy Share Image
I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
A wound in the soul, coming from the rending of the spiritual body, strange as it may seem, gradually closes like a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My mother always taught us that any accomplishment my sisters or I achieve is a 'feather in all our caps.' Kathy, Kim,… — Kyle Richards Copy Share Image
During the war, my mother used to take me to the local repertory theatre on a Monday night, and we used to… — Geraldine McEwan Copy Share Image
“Who says there have been no female prophet on earth, what about your mother.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
What's important for my daughter to know is that... if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours. You live… — Charlotte Gray Copy Share Image
