I just pray and I'm so thankful to have my kids because they are my light. Just being near them and being… — Keyshia Cole Copy Share Image
I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother.… — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
I think mothers and daughters are meant to give birth to each other, over and over; that is why our challenges to… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I just read about John Le Carre, the great spy novelist. He had an absolutely miserable childhood. His mother deserted him when… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
“The family were arranged on the veranda under the grapevine, each occupied with his or her own affairs. Mother was knitting, counting… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
...fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I just know I have so much to teach my child. And I just feel kind of like, what would our world… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds,… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
The fact that I still find so much beauty in a handicraft is because my mother taught us to see not just… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I picked up the Puerto Rican accent from my father, and my sister picked up my mother's very clear, concise, and slow… — Alanna Ubach Copy Share Image
“The man who says that his mother was or is the best cook in the world can lay claim to little originality.… — Lodwick Charles Hartley Copy Share Image
“you. But first, the bigger issue at hand is that shortly after the meeting that day I got a phone call from… — Paula Kay Copy Share Image
He does this on purpose," Stephanie's mother said as they sat in the car, seat belts on and ready to go. They… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
“It won’t be long,’ said Philippa cheerfully, her mother’s ring in her voice. ‘You know what Bess says. There’s nothing in this… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and… — Barbara Windsor Copy Share Image
In the older times it was seldom said to little girls, as it always has been said to boys, that they ought… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
I try to do everything to say, 'OK, will my mother like this? Will she be pleased? Will she be proud of… — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“He stared at her breasts incredulously, but not with lust. "For the love of Freya! You wear Ruby's strange undergarment. Lingerie, methinks… — Sandra Hill Copy Share Image
When I was six, my best friend's parents bought him a piano. My mother noticed that every time I would go to… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Oh, hello," Dr. M says, shaking Balder's hand. "Wonderful costume. I'm a bit of a role player myself on the weekends. Tell… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
As a child, I personally didn't really get to know any Jews. I was eight years old when the Night of Broken… — Helmut Kohl Copy Share Image
You think I have more than most people dream of? What other people dream of doesn't matter. I always had less than… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
In response to the advocacy of groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, most states adopted tougher laws to punish drunk driving. Numerous… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“But right now he wanted nothing more than a hot shower, a shave and a decent cup of tea. Though he'd have… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
A trauma is something one repeats and repeats, after all, and this is the tragedy of the Iqbals--that they can't help but… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I remember being home alone when I was about 13 and making a souffle from a recipe in one of my mother's… — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
My father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously.… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
Of course I don't always enjoy being a mother. At those times my husband and I hole up somewhere in the wine… — Dorothy Debolt Copy Share Image
The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
“Her father is a doctor and away from home most of the time just like Dad, and her mother nags a lot… — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
The vision preached by my father a half-century ago was that his four little children would no longer live in a nation… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I feel that the connection with children and mothers is so strong in places where there are not so many 'things' to… — Milla Jovovich Copy Share Image
I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad… — Marie Osmond Copy Share Image
Your love is the light in my life that doesn't fail to shine even when on the darkest day. Your love for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
