A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher Copy Share Image
When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I like to look at scenarios and see how people interact with each other. That's why I'm an actor because I try… — Colin Hanks Copy Share Image
The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures. That… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
While my parents both worked full-time, we still grappled with the scourge of working-class poverty. But my entrepreneurial mother used her research… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The more time we spend with Mother nature the more we fall in love with her. — Anthony D. Williams Copy Share Image
I used to hang out with grandfather all the time because he used to pick me up from school sometimes, or drive… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
My mother was one of the most beautiful women, I have to say, of her generation. She was absolutely lovely. She was… — Angela Lansbury Copy Share Image
By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The jail thing is very, very present in all of my work... Sometimes not very frontally. The jail is coming from the… — Chantal Akerman Copy Share Image
I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in… — Michael Baumgartner Copy Share Image
I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels. — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
Don’t worry. It’ll never happen again. You know me, I do date occasionally, but I usually spend at least a few normal,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“NURSE. There, there, there. A father has something besides his child, but a mother has nothing but her child. CAPTAIN.” — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things… — Kaia Gerber Copy Share Image
The paramount destiny and mission of woman is to fulfill the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. That is the… — Joseph P. Bradley Copy Share Image
Afghanistan is more than the 'graveyard of empires.' It's the mother of vicious circles. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
On her daughter, Jessica: Kids at her school will sidle up to me and say, Does Jessica know what happens in book… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
