“It seemed to her many years since he had begun to prepare her mind for "the place," as she always called it.… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say,… — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence,… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
“I cannot pretend that I understood my mother at the end of her life. I was trying to follow the goals she… — Liza Dalby Copy Share Image
Warsan means "good news" and Shire means "to gather in one place". My parents named me after my father's mother, my grandmother.… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
I think football saves many people. It can give you a life of luxury, but people don't see all the effort that… — Alexis Sanchez Copy Share Image
If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Blacks as a group will never be equal while they have this situation going on, where the vast majority of children do… — Amy Wax Copy Share Image
Crisis or transition of any kind reminds us of what matters most. In the routine of life, we often take our families-our… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
One of the things my mother taught me when I was a child was just keep your eye on the prize and… — Cathy Hughes Copy Share Image
“Watoto hupenda vitu vinavyong’aa ambavyo havijatulia na vilivyopangiliwa vizuri. Hivyo ndivyo macho ya binadamu yalivyo: yana unyevu na yanaakisi mwanga, hayajatulia, na… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
At a very young age, my beloved mother passed away from leukemia, forcing my father to become a single dad. Rather than… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
I was undeclared. I was in my third year of school. They said you have to decide upon a major, and my… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
For me, just being how old I am, I know I don't want to be a single mom. I really would rather… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going… — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
Providence has so ordained it, that only two women have a true interest in the happiness of a man--his own mother, and… — Octave Feuillet Copy Share Image
“I always hear my late Father and Mother “little voice” it’s always with me… I can just “see” them beside me and… — nick catricaka Copy Share Image
She had thought she was going to save her mother, and now there was going to be nothing for her to do… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I'm on Facebook and the Internet EVERY DAY NUMEROUS TIMES A DAY.Sorry about the shouting but I can't help myself. My mother… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I have a word to say to my sisters. When I reflect upon the duties and responsibilities devolving upon our mothers and… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Someday, when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a mother, I'll tell them: I loved you enough… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
So when people used to call me 'chinki' I thought that okay maybe my mother is Chinese so they are calling me… — Jwala Gutta Copy Share Image
Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you." The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick.… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The biggest considerations I had were practical: how do you move such a large number of actors around a small space? So,… — Hirokazu Koreeda Copy Share Image
'Captain Marvel,' whereby the steel trap is challenged, where the hero is a heroine, where the most powerful person who has the… — John Kani Copy Share Image
My benefactor told me that my father and mother had lived and died just to have me, and that their own parents… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know,… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
My father died at 42, of a heart attack. My mother was 32 then. She never wanted to be a victim. And… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
The physical powers of the body cannot be separated from the rationale of the mind and the emotions of the heart. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chances are that any helpful two-year-old will break some eggs. We are often not very good at things when we are new.… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
But I killed a man just like my mother did. David says it’s okay because I didn’t mean to, and because he… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“The wild women in his lap,' my father enthused, 'laying their breasts on his head.' There was a moment of stunned silence.… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
We worked all the time, just worked and then we would be hungry and my mother was clearing up a new ground… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
