My family was very engaged in the world around us. My father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and an immigrant from… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
There are no different categories of love. There isn't one kind of love between a mother and child, another between lovers, and… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over… — Cathy Freeman Copy Share Image
I have many memories of waking up to eat breakfast that my mother carefully prepared for us and her saying, what do… — Lisa Loeb Copy Share Image
When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her children. A woman's second priority is… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
There was always music in my house when I was a kid. On Saturday mornings, my mother would clean house to 45s… — Steve Kazee Copy Share Image
“How powerful is the influence of a mother! The bond between mother and child seems to be God-designed, the perfect union of… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
We have women entering lower-paying career fields. Women are still, culturally, the primary caregivers for children, even though we would love to… — Martha McSally Copy Share Image
“This would be her life, accomplishing the things her mother had never done. She never celebrated this, unlike her friends who were… — Brit Bennett Copy Share Image
When I started out in public life there used to be a saying we'd hear from time to time, that every man… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“My mother had tried to raise me as a Catholic, but war had deracinated whatever meager plantings her efforts had achieved. No… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Bad karma is the spiritual debt one has accumulated for one's mistakes from all previous lives and this life. It includes killing,… — ZHI GANG SHA Copy Share Image
I came to America because of a tennis scholarship. I really wanted to get away because I was really frustrated about my… — Boris Kodjoe Copy Share Image
Sex makes things strained. There are lovely people in Oneida, but everyone was married to everyone else. And you had fathers and… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Someone did once bow to me, and my mother immediately told them off. Although whether she was prompted by the breach of… — David Linley Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Monsoon,' I always imagined the music video being shot in India. The song had so much to do with… — Amber Mark Copy Share Image
“Women are like trees, growing slowly over time. So many rings creating layers of maturity as their branches spread and reach out… — P.R. Newton Copy Share Image
“She did not seem to want to speak, or perhaps she was not able to, but she mad timid motions toward Neville,… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
When my wife was pregnant, she got very upset with me because I didnt read the baby books. She looked at that,… — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the… — Marlo Thomas Copy Share Image
A wonderful thing happens when you give up on hope, which is that you realize you never needed it in the first… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
“And she needed to surf some of the pregnancy websites she'd found when she first realized she was pregnant. Her friends with… — Beth K. Vogt Copy Share Image
What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness.… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
“She pitied and despised them from the bottom of her heart, as she stood on the soft carpet, looking at the old… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Yes, I have four children. Four children with whom I spend a good part of every day: bathing them, combing their hair,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Listen," he said. "If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art.… — David Rockefeller Copy Share Image
We take the star from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have… — George Washington Copy Share Image
After I won the Pulitzer, there was this sense of, 'OK, that's enough for you. Now go away.' What I wanted was… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
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For many years, I did pantomime with Marcel Marceau. I was a writer for him and got to know very well how… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
“And I said, “I needed to sit down and be quiet and think.” And he said, “OK, let’s keep it simple. What… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
All your life you have done things that have brought a smile to my face. Today is your special day to sit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him but respected him. He was one of those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“His mother had always been a headstrong woman, and with her grayish-white mane and unsmiling face, she appeared as regal and intimidating… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella,… — Bella Abzug Copy Share Image
