Those things which we call extraordinary, remarkable, or unusual may make history, but they do not make real life. After all, to… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, way too often, the goal for actresses is to get cast in roles as the wife or the mother or… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
“And now she was found, no longer lost. Like a bag I'd given up for good suddenly reappearing in the middle of… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
After he retired, Dad worked at my uncle's boat company, a camp for kids, and eventually became County Commissioner for a term.… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
Try saying this: 'What's true for me today is that I have angry feelings concerning what I heard you say when you… — Judith Stone Copy Share Image
There's a book called 'The Shack' - it had a lot to do with me coming full circle, meeting my birth mother.… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
[That night] I was sitting by Jack Nicholson with my long list of thanks, and I said, 'I'm so nervous. I don't… — Javier Bardem Copy Share Image
1.5 billion people lack proper access to electricity. Many buy kerosene, which can cost 30 percent of their income. It sends millions… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“But she and her mother were something else. Something that glimmered far brighter than gold. Something that made you believe there was… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
Like a girl, a baby running after her mother, begging to be picked up, and she tugs on her skirts, holding her… — Homer Copy Share Image
Men, learn to speak blessings over your wife and you will see that woman rise to a new level. She will respond… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“The past is a presence between us. In all my mother does and says, the past continually discloses itself in the smallest… — Fern Schumer Chapman Copy Share Image
I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
I also feel like motherhood, especially, is seen usually in movies with this saintly veil over it. There's something about tipping that… — Kathryn Hahn Copy Share Image
People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty;… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Every day, passion speaks to us through our feelings. That's why when you allow yourself to become anesthetized by what others think,… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him… — Frank B. Gilbreth Jr Copy Share Image
A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
My mother was always working for a job, so I guess I was always trained that I should have multiple jobs, multiple… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A flash of something—hope, excitement, disbelief— flickered over the boy’s face, shattering the remaining pieces of her heart. She’d known it would… — Kay Stockham Copy Share Image
I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
My current role model is Beyonce. She is such a strong woman. She can do everything. She has kept herself together and… — Sunidhi Chauhan Copy Share Image
What I like about all these giant superhero movies is that they speak to the issues that I'm dealing with - working… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
“Realizing your own mother was incapable of truly seeing you—of loving you for who you are rather than as an extension of… — Shari Franke Copy Share Image
I love Huma Qureshi. She was amazing in 'Gangs Of Wasseypur.' I also love Richa Chaddha. She played a mother in 'Gangs… — Waheeda Rehman Copy Share Image
“when it came to listening my mother taught me silence if you are drowning their voice with yours how will you hear… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
What I'm asking people to do is to look at their lives, wherever they may be. I mean, you may be a… — Lewis Pugh Copy Share Image
I managed because of my mother. I managed because I'm strong. I managed the same way every other abuse survivor survives, you… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
“Oddly enough, I never heard him complain about or blame the political system of North Korea. I finally realized that he’d never… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
“No," the mother told her. "It's too dangerous there". A small incident, but when multiplied a hundred, a thousand times in a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
My mother, Yolanda, was a little girl who never grew up, and sometimes we would laugh, and I would say things like,… — Thalia Copy Share Image
My mother always spoke to me in English, so it's technically my maternal language, and it became a kind of private language… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
Simi, why did Acheron send you here? (Astrid) To protect you from Thanatos so that your sisters don’t get all freaky and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Kevin stopped where he was and stood there simply gazing at her. Molly sat cross-legged in the meadow with the sun shining… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
As a working mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a stay-at-home mother, the last thing… — Karen Finerman Copy Share Image
My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My mother had a premonition from the very word 'GO.' She knew there was something to be afraid of and the only… — Eva Hart Copy Share Image
“She was willing to give you everything she had. And you took it from her. You took her youth, and her beauty,… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image