“Tell me how you are." "I'm fine, Mother." "No one is fine. Fine is a placeholder.” — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
My mother asks me 'you really have to fight?' And I say that's my job, mom. — Mauricio Rua Copy Share Image
“Being single isn't a terminal disease." "Try telling that to my mother.” — Alexandra Potter Copy Share Image
Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health! — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
A mother of a one-year-old boy is a movie star in a world without critics. — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
“My mother derives her worth from her relationship with Kenna, not from her social position.” — Kristen Stieffel Copy Share Image
“Wind-seeker, her mother had once called her. Unable to keep still, always wandering where the wind calls you. Where shall it beckon… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian. — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
I put quite a bit of study into the horn, that's true. In fact, the neighbors threatened to ask my mother to… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed. — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they should save… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
[On her mother, who died when Hutton was 4:] I hardly remember her, but I have missed her all my life. — Barbara Hutton Copy Share Image
America is really tough on mothers, especially going to work again. A lot of women have to breast-pump, and they can't do… — Robyn Lawley Copy Share Image
Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I can’t have it either. It affects the babies in utero.” “Nonsense,” he said, tossing his long auburn hair over one shoulder.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“I find it offensive to motherhood to call being a mother a job. Being a mother isn’t a job. It’s who someone… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
Neither torch nor dagger," Annabeth said firmly. "There is a third test, which I will pass." "A third test?" the pater demanded.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me… — Erich von Stroheim Copy Share Image
I love how Mother Theresa said she wouldn't attend an anti-war rally but if there was a peace rally to call her.… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image