“And ultimately, she’s told Drs. Rusk and Tavis, she’d rather have Hal abide in the security of the knowledge that his mother… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
But I also slaughtered you real mother and father. In a moment of mad rage, I took their lives and left you… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my parents had completely different… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I'd love to adopt, but having a daughter, Daisy, who's in the middle of her teens, I'm now thinking: Is this a… — Joely Richardson Copy Share Image
It moves one's heart to think: Nine months before I was born there was a woman who loved me deeply. She did… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
I've been so fortunate to have had such a healthy, easy pregnancy and have been incredibly active the entire way through. My… — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
“Mundane things like TV, music, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram…they all fall away when you’re in a hospital room, watching your child suffer. All… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
“Doña Remedios, like her husband, was quite traditional and not trendy enough to understand concepts like natural birth or the importance of… — Olga Núñez Miret Copy Share Image
My birth experience is not right for everyone, but it was so right for me. I am changed because of that experience,… — Ricki Lake Copy Share Image
I feel like I know what my role is as a mom, and I know that there is eight people on the… — Kate Gosselin Copy Share Image
Apparently the complete works of Shakespeare packed quite a wallop. To think, my mother said I'd never find use for an English… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
My mom was a single mother in the South Bronx living in adverse conditions. Seeing her struggles to get herself off of… — Andrea Navedo Copy Share Image
We must forget bodily consciousness like a deer which is infatuated by music. We must look up to God, as the young… — Tukaram Copy Share Image
A mother is in the kitchen making dinner for her family when her daughter walks in. Mother, where do babies come from?… — Kevin Copy Share Image
Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...it was hard to be a mother when you had never been mothered yourself. Your children's needs remind you of your needs.… — Sarah Dunn Copy Share Image
“is the unseen guest at every table, the silent listener to every conversation”—her mother thereby inferring that she too would be the… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You… — Hugo Hamilton Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
I don't know that I have a favorite meal. When I'm cooking I'm thinking about the person I'm feeding and I want… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
It moves one's heart to think: Nine months before I was born there was a woman who loved me deeply. She did… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
“This is one of the many odd and unexpected little situations where you kinda find out who you are as a mother.… — Stacey Hatton Copy Share Image
When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
When my parents went off to Knoxville to work, I lived with my father's mother. She was strict - the kind who… — Tina Turner Copy Share Image
My mother was not the cook in the family. My dad was. I'd watch him behind the grill, and I said, 'If… — Jesse McCartney Copy Share Image
It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know. I came out… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a… — Conrad Veidt Copy Share Image
Didn't your mother ever tell you," Rob asked, "that you're supposed to play hard to get?" I looked at his lips. I… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
When my German-American mother married my black-American Indian father, her dad and stepmom disowned her immediately. They would have been upset had… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
He [my father] didn't have a basement workshop as such, but I know that he did build things, construct things, repair things.… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
“And Phoebe saw, with a dreadful clarity, that in the end she'd failed to interest her mother enough, failed to hold her… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
I want to thank my mom, Brenda Rose. My heart, the reason I play the way I play, just everything. Just knowing… — Derrick Rose Copy Share Image
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
On a recent trip to New York, I bought myself a seriously denim jacket that my daughter begged to borrow. I refused!… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own.… — W. H. Davies Copy Share Image
“Would you please let go? It is my foot, you know.” “And you are my woman.” She threw her head back and… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“I wondered--not for the first time--whether one was ever justified in neglecting the welfare of one's own family in order to fight… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
My father was from a secular Jewish family and my mother from a nominally Christian (Episcopalian) one. They were not religious as… — Mike Berenstain Copy Share Image