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Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism… — Amanda Lindhout Copy Share Image
I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far as I… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
Pregnancy is a uniquely intimate relationship between two people. All of us luxuriate in this relationship once, and half of us are… — David Bainbridge Copy Share Image
My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I didn't have familiarity with children. I'm learning day after day, with her [daughter]. And what impresses me the most is that… — Monica Bellucci Copy Share Image
“We do not converse. She visits me to talk. My task to murmur. She talks about her grandsons, her daughter who lives… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“And I responded, "Did you remind her that he tried to kill me when I wouldn't help him try to burn down… — Michael Hassan Copy Share Image
Going back to my mother's passing, there was no way I could hold back my tears or sense of grief at knowing… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
“Each time Anna moved from her father’s world to her mother and Lydia’s, she felt as if she’d shaken free of one… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
“I would move the earth to save your mother. D'ye hear me, Sarah? I would tear down the walls of her jail… — Kathleen Kent Copy Share Image
My mother, Betty, was an entertainer - she opened up for James Brown, Ike and Tina Turner - and I had an… — Salim Akil Copy Share Image
I still come from a very working-class family. My mother's still a cleaner. And my brother is the gas man. And my… — Duncan Roy Copy Share Image
I'm not saying pot is a bad thing. I know plenty of people who should be smoking pot. I'm just not one… — Mary-Louise Parker Copy Share Image
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“{Calpurnia)"My mother…she’s desperate for a daughter she can dress like a porcelain doll. Sadly, I shall never be such a child. How… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“I'd say he's not much older than you," Mother said when she noticed. "Really?" Lynn peered closer at his face. "How can… — Mindy McGinnis Copy Share Image
I never set out to be an actor. Again, my mother presented this job by job to me at the time, and… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“After my mother died, there wasn’t a day that went by that I didn’t think about her, didn’t miss her. Not just… — Karina Halle Copy Share Image
My father passed away when I was two, and my mother was just 22-years-old back then. So young and only soul to… — Bharti Singh Copy Share Image
“Carlos,” her mother said, her voice soothing, and Sarah wondered how her mom managed to sound so calm. “I know you wanted… — L.A. Banks Copy Share Image
I'm not perfect, I'm not an angel, but I try to live a certain way because it brings honour and respect to… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
“My mother, of course, had a different opinion. 'They're driving me crazy!' she said, swatting at them with her beige Coach handbag.… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
A central feature of the ceremonial associated with Mithras was the taurobolium, the ritual slaughter of a bull which commemorated and repeated… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
When I went to school, my intention was to be a lawyer. When I attended university that was still the clear intention;… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I was told a lie from the pit of hell: that my baby was just a blob of tissue. The aftermath of… — Jennifer O'Neill Copy Share Image
“It was time to face the second hardest fact in her life; she had a dead mother, and a father who was… — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
When 'Frozen River' started to get really big, I was four months pregnant. So when these agents and directors wanted to meet… — Reed Morano Copy Share Image
Just the responsibility of wanting to see my mother have a better life; making sure my sister had a better life. I… — Yo Gotti Copy Share Image
Mother, sister, daughter, wife, cousins - they are a part of your everyday life. You interact with them, communicate, altercate and that… — Vikram Bhatt Copy Share Image
Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child?… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
My mother gave me an understanding that as good as you think you are, you're not so great. There's always room for… — Stevie Wonder Copy Share Image
I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of… — Portia Doubleday Copy Share Image