When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you. — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
That explains how I got the name Conchata. It was the name of an Apache squaw in the book mother was reading. — Conchata Ferrell Copy Share Image
I started dancing when I was about four, and my mother put me into dancing school, and I did every type of… — Mya Copy Share Image
“It is not," Valency could hear her mother's prim, dictatorial voice asserting, "it is not MAIDENLY to think about MEN.” — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
My mother was a very quiet woman and people say that she didn't get much of a chance to talk because my… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
“My mother, my father, and the rest of the world have done the best they can with what they have had. To… — Glynn Brown, Marlayna Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, I was the only black girl at a small, private Episcopal school, where my tuition was paid… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“The long-ago days - the days of Mother and Bone and the shed - have become fuzzy and have blended with images… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
“Concern with labor’s length began in hospital, where a prompt turnover of beds was of practical and financial concern. Next came practitioner… — Elizabeth Davis Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents… — Wale Copy Share Image
“At all events, she is the mother of all beings. She lives in all things and they live in her. All that… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
I don't make a Bible argument in the ad, nor have I made a bible argument in the public space. My argument… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Sometimes we depersonalize people who we don't agree with or who we see as targets for hatred. If you think of anything… — Measha Brueggergosman Copy Share Image
I wanted to have no ribs. I wore what was called a waist-nipper in those days. My mother made it. It's a… — Debbie Reynolds Copy Share Image
I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That… — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
My mother didn't really want me to go into professional tennis. She thought it was too hard a life. — Maria Sakkari Copy Share Image
I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right. — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in… — Ellen Burstyn Copy Share Image
“Mother: “I’m amazed that more people don’t commit suicide. They just keep on living. It’s so hard and they just keep doing… — Eula Biss Copy Share Image
Like every mother, I also want Alia and Shaheen to be happy. Whatever they do, they should feel satisfied doing it. I'm… — Soni Razdan Copy Share Image
I wish I could relive those days when I was 8 and my mother bought all the gifts I gave to people.… — Emily Hampshire Copy Share Image
The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name. — Paul Lynde Copy Share Image
The border crossing is the most dangerous moment for anyone attempting to escape. But my brother and mother had been waved off… — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
Allow me to introduce myself. I am a traitor and an idiot. Also, my mother should have aborted me and left me… — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
My mother always told me,”hide your face- people are looking at you”. I would reply,”It does not matter; I am also looking… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours. — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a terribly confident person. But I have a survival mechanism that was instilled in me by… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
“A daughter you were, a mother you will be, the things you've done, are the things you will see.” — Alysha Millet Copy Share Image
I think the best thing, or the greatest thing my girls have going for them, is having their mother as a role… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
It's my theory that many writers were the confidantes of one or the other parent. I was my mother's confidante; she had… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
"And tired" always followed sick. Worst beating I ever got in my life, my mother said, "I am just sick..." And I… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I should have suspected my husband was lazy. On our wedding day, his mother told me: "I'm not losing a son; I'm… — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
“there was one thing left to do: ask the only person I knew who was married, always honest with me, and never… — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
Mother always said that even when I was 3, I used to get the 6- and 7-year-old kids on the block and… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Women are wives and mothers and girlfriends, but not the center of our own stories. No one's the good guy; no one's… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
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