“My mother always says that love is like a snakebite, a venom slowly spreading through your veins.” — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
“Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not learned to stifle… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
The final scenes in 'Rain' are just like my mother-in-law when she would sit under the window in my sitting room -… — Penny Johnson Jerald Copy Share Image
My mother lives with me in Milan, while my father travels to and from Savona. My parents take care of my money,… — Stephan El Shaarawy Copy Share Image
“Sadie heard her inside cleaning up the kitchen and wondered what dreams Betty's mother had for herself, if all mothers had them,… — Karen Brown Copy Share Image
My mother was a dancer and my first ambition was to dance, but now that I've had some acting experience I want… — Joey Heatherton Copy Share Image
I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“There were a lot of these middle-aged single types in the neighborhood, shipwrecked by every kind of catastrophe, but she was one… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
My mother was the making of me. She was so true and so sure of me, I felt that I had someone… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“You could argue that Liesel Meminger has it easy. She did have it easy compared to Max Vandenburg. Certainly, her brother practically… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
My mother always wanted me to be in the best environment that I could be in. She wanted me to go to… — Mellody Hobson Copy Share Image
“Feelings aren’t sensible. always,” her mother said gently. “Feelings aren’t sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don’t make sense.… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture.… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
“I thought I was going to die right there on the spot. I've never heard anything so terrible in my whole life.… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
I covered Kennedy when she was three years old and the darling daughter of President Kennedy who doted on her and whose… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
Mother was the disciplinarian, but it was Daddy who could turn me into an angel with just one look. — Mary Martin Copy Share Image
“A mother's voice is like no other. We recognize every lilt and whisper, every warble or shriek.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
My advice to moms that have to go to work is to just be easy on yourself and know that you're doing… — Haylie Duff Copy Share Image
I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English.… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world, and never pressured me to do anything I… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
Mothers need to know what they are feeding their children. They need the freedom to make educated choices at the market. — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Until I separated from Parker, I had never been without them-and it's the hardest thing to share them. But we're trying to… — Kirstie Alley Copy Share Image
What are you looking at?” she asks. What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in… — Kenneth G. Wilson Copy Share Image
If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in… — Park Gye-Ok Copy Share Image
My mother and father, Joe and Theresa Montana brought me along and taught me to never quit, and to strive to be… — Joe Montana Copy Share Image
My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, jazz is the mother of all American music. R&B and pop and rap and everything are the branches on the… — Eric Burdon Copy Share Image
My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will. — Fiona Wood Copy Share Image
Loving me with my shoes off means loving my long brown legs, sweet dears, as good as spoons; and my feet, those… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It certainly changes your life. So that may be a cliché, but I think any woman would say that [day when her… — Cassandra Peterson Copy Share Image
I would have to say that my mother's entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father's, are very evident in my own outlook. — Lewis Schiff Copy Share Image
I sang those old gospel songs for my mother, and she said, is that you? And I said, yes, ma'am. And she… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and… — Annie Ilonzeh Copy Share Image
My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to see the… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image