I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher,… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Helda's been trying to impress me with the embroidery on the sheets. One more minute and I thought I might use them… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Later as the day cools and they have gone in, the cry of the corncrake will carry across those same fields and… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
The radical left is doing everything they can to destroy the moral fiber of America. They want to do away with the… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
“There, just beyond his open palm, was our mother’s face. I wasn’t expecting it. We hadn’t requested a viewing, and the memorial… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“No doubt Richard's father, like my mother, had once held his infant son in his arms, looked into the eyes of his… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my… — Pat Summerall Copy Share Image
“They carry their past in them as though safekeeping it for someone else. Very often they look at me and say, poor… — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa Copy Share Image
My mother 'gave teas' the way other mothers breathed. Her own mother 'gave teas.' All of their friends 'gave teas,' each involving… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
There is a feminist proverb I learned from my mother: The personal is political. There's a powerful literary stereotype that men write… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. You are connected to your child and to all… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
A woman's decision to carry a baby to term knowing that she will not reap the fruits of motherhood should be treated… — Nina Easton Copy Share Image
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one… — John Irving Copy Share Image
For my birthday, I would ask for a ticket from my mother. Just buy me a ticket to said country and I'll… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
“Since I’ve been home I’ve been trying hard to mend my relationship with my mother. Asking her to do things for me… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do… — Michelle Bachelet Copy Share Image
Everyone carries within himself an image of womanliness derived from his mother: it is this that determines whether, on the whole,he will… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I know that me personally I'm different than anyone else, just like our mothers all tell us we're all very special and… — Chris Pratt Copy Share Image
“My mother plants her hands on her hips, peevish. “Is that the best welcome you can come up with? Why don’t you… — Laura Wiess Copy Share Image
The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father.… — Robert Carlyle Copy Share Image
Behold the Child among his new-born blisses A six years' Darling of a pigmy size! See, where 'mid work of his own… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I played Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music and everybody's like, "Well she wouldn't have been this and that, she shouldn't… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
It's a whole nother aspect of this life that most people have no idea about. There's the loved ones, the wives, the… — Chuck Ragan Copy Share Image
Ancient traditions have long associated holy wells and springs as very special places of the Goddess or anima mundi: symbolic of the… — Christopher McDowell Copy Share Image
On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
How's our young guest?" he asked. As docile as any child could be, wearing a drug-delivery system as she is," said one… — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
“It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
Many women have described their experiences of childbirth as being associated with a spiritual uplifting, the power of which they have never… — Grantly Dick-Read Copy Share Image
I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
“I would not leave a mother alone in her plight. They described how she had kept the news of my brother’s death… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Once, a man at the customs duty check at the Delhi Airport asked me a question in Hindi, and I told him… — Vetrimaaran Copy Share Image
From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I was raised, myself, by extremely strict but also extremely loving Chinese immigrant parents. To this day, I believe that their having… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
Dixie Carter was a goddess. The kind of wife and mother that every mother hopes their daughter will become and the kind… — Annie Potts Copy Share Image
The system isn't working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
