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The tattoos are about my grandmother dying, and they tell the story about my mother and father, my brothers and my sister,… — Timothy F. Cahill Copy Share Image
When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The… — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
“Xavier stares past her with watery eyes. 'Why does the world feel the need to drop its weight upon my shoulders?' he… — Elizabeth Ybarra Copy Share Image
We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
When I gave up law to go into real estate, my mother said, 'How can you give up the law?' But she… — Jerry Reinsdorf Copy Share Image
I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps,… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
On a day-to-day level, I love watching my kids accomplish the little things that seem trivial but are really milestones: seeing my… — Matt Lauer Copy Share Image
Mother stands for M For the MILLION things she gave me, O For shuttles growing OLD, T For the TEARS she shed… — Babloo Copy Share Image
After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
“What is certain is that he [the baby] has too much attention from the one person who is entirely at his disposal.… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician.… — Sam Rivers Copy Share Image
They were partners. She would always make impulsive decisions and he would make slow, reasoned ones. He would always be a little… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
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My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I… — Buck Owens Copy Share Image
My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
Because parents are transients in the maternity care system, there is little cumulative birth experience over successive generations of mothers. Women giving… — Elizabeth Noble Copy Share Image
I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people… — Natasha Richardson Copy Share Image
“For a society that will tinker with any “natural” process—birth, death, aging, noses, or chicken pox—this clinging to the old-fashioned “man and… — Avital Norman Nathman Copy Share Image
I was like the class clown in school so I guess I would say I did like the attention. In church I… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My relationship with God developed at an early age. I was raised on a remote little ranch, where I had for company… — Brooke Medicine Eagle Copy Share Image
My mother was not a show business mother but I saw plenty of those mothers. If the kid didn't get the audition,… — Leslie Uggams Copy Share Image
You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king,… — Astrid Lindgren Copy Share Image
“The break-hard determination to be a good person, what happened to that? How is it true I have to go now? She's… — Forrest Gander Copy Share Image
After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
I like to sing because my mother was a singer. She sang to me all the time, so I learned to love… — George Benson Copy Share Image
Birth is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To… — Elizabeth Noble Copy Share Image
For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good… — Will Allison Copy Share Image
It was a cruel fate, Yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I lived in China, there were no libraries. My mother bought books for me, and they were mostly the classics. I… — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
My father has acted in over 700 films. My mother acted in one film, 'Kismat with Mithun Chakraborty,' in which my father… — Shraddha Kapoor Copy Share Image
My mother was very wary at first. And now she's come around 180 degrees. She's, like, one of my biggest fans now.… — Maz Jobrani Copy Share Image
When the door shuts another opens. He that would struggle with the world, and bear up in adversity, ought still to resolve… — Samuel Palmer Copy Share Image
To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I was the go-between when my father needed to negotiate a contract whether it be our mortgage or my mother dealing with… — Paul Raci Copy Share Image
I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image