My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King taught us all nonviolence. I was told to extend nonviolence to the mother and her calf. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Our logo for Lanvin is a mother and a daughter. I've always said, 'It's not a lion, and it's not a horse.… — Alber Elbaz Copy Share Image
I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Laziness is the mother of all bad habits but ultimately she is a MOTHER and we should respect her. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My kids don't go back and forth; none of this 50/50 time with the mums and dads. My children live with me;… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe.… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always… — Dustin Clare Copy Share Image
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I would drive down in my Volkswagen Jetta to Los Angeles and just audition, audition, audition, audition, and hopefully get something. I… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
I was studying at Stanford University with two quarters left to go before receiving an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. Then, I… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
In the U.K., my mother had been the breadwinner. I'd seen my parents side by side. In Saudi Arabia, my mother was… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around… — Melvin Konner Copy Share Image
My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Everybody is excited about their projects and I'm excited too. It's not like working. It's like playing with your friends. When I… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
My real mother is a survivor, very strong and respected by the people who know her, but our relationship is not easy… — Lemn Sissay Copy Share Image
I grew up mainly with my mother, and I would see my father from time to time. But I didn't have a… — Cress Williams Copy Share Image
I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away. I experienced life and death, with the enjoyment of… — Daniel Wu 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
When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she? — Susan Estrich Copy Share Image
I feel like I have so many amazing opportunities because of my immigrant mother, my immigrant grandparents. — Winnie Harlow Copy Share Image
When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else. — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New… — Junot Diaz 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
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 mother didn't really want me to go into professional tennis. She thought it was too hard a life. — Maria Sakkari 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
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
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
“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
“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
There are times, Sember, when I could believe your mother had a secret lover. Looking at you makes me wonder if it… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
“The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as… — Charles Dickens 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
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
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
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