I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a… — Lainie Kazan Copy Share Image
The Santa Anas blew in hot from the desert, shriveling the last of the spring grass into whiskers of pale straw. Only… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Dessah pulled her legs up to her chest and laid her head between her knees. The mother that used to live inside… — Holliday Vann Copy Share Image
My mother is my hero just because, what life becomes about is overcoming adversity, and I watched her overcome so many things… — Rashad Evans Copy Share Image
My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
I have a deep connection with Mahatma Gandhi, partly because my mother was a very, very staunch Gandhian and brought us up… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic… — Rachael Harris Copy Share Image
It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Every time the Houston Texans play at home, DeAndre Hopkins' mother, Sabrina Greenlee, sits in the same spot in the end zone,… — Mina Kimes Copy Share Image
Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Historically, and even now, women have been asked to give up on their dreams way more than men, mostly - because it's… — Susan Kelechi Watson Copy Share Image
The myth of motherhood as martyrdom has been bred into women, and behavioral scientists have helped embellish the myth with their ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When youre a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend its really boring, but its not. Its enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A woman has a right to a safe, legal abortion. I've never wavered in that position since I was, like, eight years… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
I was born into a household where my aunt, grandmother and mother lived their music. They all sang harmony, and by the… — Steve Miller Copy Share Image
My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performing universe of her… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
My father, in a way, was a mentor in the way he instilled the basic values and ethics in me. My mother… — Chanda Kochhar Copy Share Image
I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and… — Jacob Epstein Copy Share Image
The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my mother taught me and my sisters to celebrate each other - there was no room in… — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
It's fun being pregnant at the same time as someone as prominent as Kim Kardashian. Seeing her beautiful body change and morph… — Ginger Zee Copy Share Image
“Mommy, I said aloud, and I thought of her suddenly stopping what she was doing, often in the center of the kitchen,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
A single woman should only marry a man she can follow: Ladies if you are single, be very, very careful who you… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
My mother was the first African-American policewoman in Seattle - recruited, actually - and she did it for only 2 years, as… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
My mother always taught me never to look back in regret but to move on to the next thing. The amount of… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The belief when your mother gives you away is that there's something deeply wrong. Mothers don't give babies away. There's something wrong… — Mary Gauthier Copy Share Image
I talk to my kids about my mothers energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how kind and… — Lemon Andersen Copy Share Image
My mother Reba Vidyarthi was a Kathak dancer while my father Govind Vidyarthi was a theatre personality. Later on, he worked for… — Ashish Vidyarthi Copy Share Image
“and Grenouille’s mother, who was still a young woman, barely in her mid-twenties, and who still was quite pretty and had almost… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“But she wasn't a wife and mother. And, Joey aside, she didn't want to be one. Her mother had spend every last… — Deeanne Gist Copy Share Image
“I've spoken of the patient Peter who was obsessively forced to make conquests with women, to seduce and then to abandon them,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
If you look at television shows, which of course are fictional so you don't expect them to be real, but they're constantly… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image