I was brought up on the books of The Wizard of Oz and my mother told me that these were great philosophies.… — Ray Bolger Copy Share Image
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence. — Brooke Shields Copy Share Image
I was raised with a mother who told me that I wouldn't succeed, that I wasn't good enough. Even at the pinnacle… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Mothers are likely to have more bad days on the job than most other professionals, considering the hours: round-the-clock, seven days a… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
She didn't want to think about how wrong this was or how foolish it was to give herself to a known seducer.… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
I've got three daughters and I'm going to stand up for them and support them in whatever they want to do. — Angie Harmon Copy Share Image
“Or, for one of our mothers, the secret to a good marriage, she said, was sex.” — TaraShea Nesbit Copy Share Image
Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Part a of scene from 'Bitterblue' between Madlen (Bitterblue's medicine woman) and Bitterblue: Madlen came to sit beside her [Bitterblue] on the… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“You will always be the Matriarch—the Queen of Hearts. Your hand rocked my cradle, and you ruled my world.” — Dipa Sanatani Copy Share Image
Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father, Your mother, your sister, or your brother? I have neither father,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I have two full-time jobs: one of a mother and the other of an actor. Both are equally important, and that's why… — Sonali Bendre Copy Share Image
Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out… — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
I'll rest one day, exhausted by the what-ifs and whys, while Mama smiles and points upward. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From Charades: when she was younger she was a frustrated mother, so she is pleased when her children act as is they… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
One of my favorite dishes, absolutely from my childhood, was something my grandmother made, on my mother's side. It was a shepherd's… — Dean Cain Copy Share Image
“My mother asks quickly, “Who’s Kate?” My father answers between bites, “Katherine Brooks, new employee. Brilliant girl. And quite the firecracker. She… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
For too many families, the aftershock of the war in Afghanistan will be felt every day, most probably for the rest of… — Ross Kemp Copy Share Image
A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
All in all, 18 individuals from my family are missing, including my six brothers and my mother, my brothers' wives, my nephews… — Nadia Murad Copy Share Image
I actually used to say it to my mother and my sister all the time. I used to say, 'I just know… — Maura Higgins Copy Share Image
The option to freeze one's eggs is just about the most empowering choice a single woman who knows she wants to be… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
And you don't have to be a preacher to carry on. That's why I've gone into the theater, with my mother's blessings,… — Yolanda King Copy Share Image
When I stopped my work in films and took over the management of the house, sometime after marriage, my new avatar was… — Saira Banu Copy Share Image
I remember being seven and asking my mom if I was as pretty as Monique [my best friend in grade school]. And… — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
“If there is anything I’ve learned being the mother of many children, it’s that you’d better laugh at yourself, because everyone else… — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
Although still viewed as lovely and alluring by many, Winston Churchill's mother shocked society when at 46 she married a man 20… — Anne Sebba Copy Share Image
I have got my story. Adoptees rarely get our stories. We only know what we are told. I don't even have my… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
Every mother thinks that their child is the most beautiful, but only my mom is right ;) — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a mother of five, and raising five babies, little children, you have to make use of time in a very effective… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
She could not bear the thought. She simply could not bear the thought that she might somehow prove to her grandfather that… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
When you come from Poland, you have nothing. Your mother and father are working. You have only a bed for sleep. You… — Lukas Podolski Copy Share Image
Fra Lippo, we have learned from thee A lesson of humanity: To every mother's heart forlorn, In every house the Christ is… — Richard Watson Gilder Copy Share Image
I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very… — Natalia Vodianova Copy Share Image
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