Ere you lie down to sleep in the night, sit still awhile, and nurse again to life your gentler self. Forget the… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
“My mom always says that you have to trust yourself and follow your instincts,” Amy said quietly. “She says that the only… — Melanie Shawn Copy Share Image
“My father's hand found the door locked. His calls to my mother went unanswered. He beat with his fists and called out… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is… — Giada De Laurentiis Copy Share Image
“My mother had not forgotten the sad end of M. Vinteuil’s life, his complete absorption, first in having to play both mother… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
My mother's influence to take on new challenges and do what I though was right even though sometimes the consequences politically speaking… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people.… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
My parents came to America in the late 1960s because my father studied for a Ph.D. in Indiana. My mother joined him… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
There's a lesson to be learned out of everything we go through in life. I recall when I left [Jack Gordon], and… — LaToya Jackson Copy Share Image
My mother was a very absent mother. She was going out, she was drinking a lot, she liked to have fun. It's… — Sophie Calle Copy Share Image
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
Give heed to the cause of the holy Roman Church, mother of all churches and teacher of the faith, whom you by… — Pope Leo X Copy Share Image
“Why did she have to change and her mother didn't? She was still smoking, dating losers, drinking, and partying. She had totally… — Niki Jilvontae Copy Share Image
My mother always said that I was born out of a bottle of vinegar instead of born from a womb and that… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I'm incapable of functioning without music. I've always had it in my life. I played the violin when I was a kid,… — Peter Dundas Copy Share Image
“She has that voraciousness about children. She swoops in on them. Even I, in public was a beloved child. She'd parade me… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“I have noticed,” she said slowly, “that time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Mariam saw now the sacrifices a mother made. Decency was but one...Mariam wished she's been a better daughter to Nana. She wished… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Don't you ever touch my car again," Santangelo says with the same fury he had on his face when Jonah Griggs made… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
My mother really was an extraordinary, inspirational, tough, cool, sexy, funny woman and that's the kind of woman I've always surrounded myself… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
It's hard either way, at home or on the bus, I think the hardest thing probably for me is going one second… — Lee Ann Womack Copy Share Image
When I was in junior high, I would carry around this huge volume of Shakespeare. I just like the romantic vibe. I… — Fefe Dobson Copy Share Image
Fathers have a special excitement about them that babies find intriguing. At this time in his life an infant counts on his… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Because the man who stood there before us was not our father. He was somebody else, a stranger who had been sent… — Julie Otsuka Copy Share Image
I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished… — Judy Blundell Copy Share Image
I grew up in a no man's land. My mother was ultra liberated and she thought I was backward because I didn't… — Pooja Bedi Copy Share Image
I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the… — Hector Hugh Munro Copy Share Image
I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got… — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
My face is muffled in my mother's clothing. Her rhinestones injure me. See: my feet are going. Fish flee the forefinger of… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
I watched my mother be one of the most vibrant, happy women every day. She loved to smile, all the time. She… — Tabitha Brown Copy Share Image
Very often mothers go to work right away after the child is born and, unless the father or someone else stays home,… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing their relationship has had a profound… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
“Alexander speaks. “Anthony, I’m going to tell you something. In 1941, when I met your mother, she had turned seventeen and was… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
Brie Larson had a great run, don't get me wrong, she's had amazing films, but this movie itself, the entire concept of… — Bun B Copy Share Image