“A child’s bond to her mother cannot be understated, and my bond with Helen was a ragged, baffling, disheartening, chaotic mess. I… — Cathy Lamb Copy Share Image
Half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
World Health Day is an opportunity to highlight the problem, but above all, to stimulate action. It is an occasion to call… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
She was this incredible mom. With each of her kids, she did something called 'time,' where she would spend an hour each… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
The values my mother taught me were like, if you're going to do something, don't half-ass it. I remember her literally saying… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
At a certain point the family moved to Jaipur, where no woman could avoid the doli or purdah. They kept her in… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
M is for the million things she gave me, O means only that she's growing old, T is for the tears she… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Every midwife knows that not until a mother’s womb softens from the pain of labor will a way unfold and the infant… — Rumi Copy Share Image
You don't have body parts there do you?" my mother interrupted. "I don't want to open the fridge and find a head… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While I believed deeply in my husband's vision for this country... and I was certain he would make an extraordinary President... like… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
There is so much conflicting advice for mothers. Women finding out what works for them is the most important aspect. For me,… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
I was blessed, because I come from a family where they knock you down before you float away. I have a lot… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled… — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
His brother maintained that what sent people backing away was neither his size nor his mother's blood, but solely the expression on… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
When I was happily married and found myself pregnant, I just thought that this would be just the next, normal chapter. I… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
My feeling is that my body and all my things inside me - when I move, when I do everything - are… — Thiago Alcantara Copy Share Image
I was going to some fabulous party, and my taxi got stuck in traffic, and I looked out the window, and I… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“They claim this mother of ours, the earth, for their own and fence their neighbors away; they deface her with their buildings… — Sitting Bull Copy Share Image
I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life.… — Andy Griffith Copy Share Image
“She had to think about the future, her mother said. Marriage. She was sixteen now. It was time. The word made her… — Kimberly Cutter Copy Share Image
My coming to England in this way is, as I realize, so unusual that nobody will easily understand it. I was confronted… — Rudolf Hess Copy Share Image
Oh, God, help me! And I walked faster, my thoughts pursuing me, and I began to run, my frozen shoes squealing like… — John Fante Copy Share Image
I may not always spell it out to you but you are everything to me. I must have often denied, but the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why do you live out here? You're a great healer; you could get work in the inner city if you wanted to.… — Hazel Blackthorn Copy Share Image
When I got pregnant, I told [Susan Sarandon ]. She said, "All right. I'm gonna tell you the thing to do when… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
When I was contemplating medical school after graduating from Knox, several people suggested that nursing was a more suitable profession for women.… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
The Zen Master warns: 'If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!' This admonition points up that no meaning that… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
What kept me out of trouble is going right to the edge and then... thinking that my mother would be embarrassed, and… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met… — Alexis Denisof Copy Share Image
The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Before my mother was a King, she climbed trees and wrestled with boys. And won. Even as a child, Coretta Scott demonstrated… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
I think the gift of my mother's death, if anything so terrible can be said to have an upside to it, is… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very… — Cara Delevingne Copy Share Image
Looking back I realize I had the perfect family background to become the political cartoonist that I became. My father was stupid,… — Edward Sorel Copy Share Image