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
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
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
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
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
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
“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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with… — Toni Tennille Copy Share Image
I didn't think at all about my body until after I stopped nursing. When I was nursing, my body was my daughter's,… — Maggie Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when I was looking through her… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Everybody is excited about their projects and I'm excited too. It's not like working. It's like playing with your friends. When I… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I was studying at Stanford University with two quarters left to go before receiving an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. Then, I… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
In the U.K., my mother had been the breadwinner. I'd seen my parents side by side. In Saudi Arabia, my mother was… — Mona Eltahawy Copy Share Image
In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around… — Melvin Konner Copy Share Image
Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility… — Evan Bayh Copy Share Image
When I was growing up my mother made certain that I was exposed to people of all races and religions who were… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I would drive down in my Volkswagen Jetta to Los Angeles and just audition, audition, audition, audition, and hopefully get something. I… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
I think my children know that Mother's priority is to be with them first. But I don't think it has to be… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
I think I am in my last days, but it doesn't really matter because I have had such a beautiful life. I… — Alice Herz-Sommer Copy Share Image
But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips,… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Who are we, as we stand before the child Jesus? Who are we, standing as we stand before today's children? Are we… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
