When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway. — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never. — Mack Sennett Copy Share Image
[My mother] was the one who encouraged me constantly and always reminded me that God gave me a talent and I have… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair? — Loni Anderson Copy Share Image
You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love. — Halle Berry Copy Share Image
The more famous an actress becomes, the less she's allowed to eat. Unless she wants to play people's mothers. And in bad… — Lana Turner Copy Share Image
I eat lots of mustard greens and collard greens. My mother cooks all the traditional southern food. — Paula Kelly Copy Share Image
“But when they couldn’t find Lockie she had to slip back into mother mode. There were days when mother mode pulled her… — Nicole Trope Copy Share Image
My own interest in art was because of my mother. My father didn't like contemporary art, so he didn't give her large… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing,… — Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Copy Share Image
My mother smokes me out. We'll get these long periods of me thinking I'm too busy to call her up or e-mail… — Ronnie Dunn Copy Share Image
Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Why are they doing that?” his mother said, frowning at her grandsons. The boys were sorting the casserole into piles on their… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
“She gave Samuel a stern look. "Now, I don't know what's going on between you and my daughter and Adam Hauptman—” “Neither… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Like all mothers, mother nature will tuck you safely into bed at night only to come into your room two hours later… — Greg Evigan Copy Share Image
“I missed my mother and Elysius. It wasn't that I wanted them with me at that very moment. I wanted them in… — Bridget Asher Copy Share Image
Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She… — Francis Meadow Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
I was determined to experience the birth, and I am so scared at the thought of having my abdomen cut open. So… — Heidi Klum Copy Share Image
“Oh, no! I promise it's not human," Mom bats her hands in the air in an effort to wrangle them back into… — Addison Moore Copy Share Image
“My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other's meanings and I seemed to hear less than what… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday, they can grow up and be… — John McCain Copy Share Image
If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers,… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Mostly I've been inspired by my mother. She is extremely driven and always makes every endeavour sound exciting. I think most of… — Christopher Masterson Copy Share Image
I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother had all these maxims-like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get… — Jennifer Tilly Copy Share Image
“It occurred to me that I had never seen my mother defeated, even when life presented difficulties and disappointments.” — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a… — James McGreevey Copy Share Image
All true children of God have God for their father and Mary for his mother; anyone who does not have Mary for… — Louis de Montfort 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
I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed… — Margaret Drabble Copy Share Image
I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to… — Edwina Findley Copy Share Image
A mother needs to be in the home even when the kids aren’t. A messy house sends a coded message to children:… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image