My mother, Mary, has been a guiding force for as long as I can remember through the examples she's set as a… — Richelieu Dennis Copy Share Image
You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart,… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
I always tell people, if a young girl read "Beloved" as her first novel, she'd have to kill either herself or her… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Let’s not ask Barbara Walters about how Muslim women feel. Let’s not ask Tom Brokaw how Muslim women feel. Let’s not ask… — Khalid Yasin Copy Share Image
I remember looking at my dad and wanting to understand him. I didn't want to just write the guy off. He was… — Tom Cruise Copy Share Image
As important as the father is in the life of a child, even he must take second place to mother during the… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
“I went into motherhood with some pretty romantic notions about what being a mom would be like. I certainly thought that raising… — Debra Sansing Woods Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen---not only on the screen. One of the most loved, one of… — Gregory Peck Copy Share Image
You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown.… — Shemar Moore Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jewelry and… — Larenz Tate Copy Share Image
I just went home to Illinois, and I asked my family, 'Are you guys planning on talking in those accents the whole… — Natasha Leggero Copy Share Image
Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? “She drove me to my practice at four… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
America is really tough on mothers, especially going to work again. A lot of women have to breast-pump, and they can't do… — Robyn Lawley Copy Share Image
“I find it offensive to motherhood to call being a mother a job. Being a mother isn’t a job. It’s who someone… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
I can’t have it either. It affects the babies in utero.” “Nonsense,” he said, tossing his long auburn hair over one shoulder.… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Neither torch nor dagger," Annabeth said firmly. "There is a third test, which I will pass." "A third test?" the pater demanded.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
My biggest struggle being a woman in the workforce has not only been with my mother, my grandmother, and a lot of… — Whitney Wolfe Herd Copy Share Image
My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every… — Brian Austin Green Copy Share Image
No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the creative force, the mother and father of love. It is in gratitude that real love exists. Love expands only… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
To be perfectly honest with you, having a mother as an actress - who I watched struggle tremendously during my childhood -… — Alaina Huffman Copy Share Image
You know who you are. If my mother is a nun and someone comes up to me and they go, 'Your mother… — Paul Mooney Copy Share Image
We do share with my mother what I would refer to as an anxiety gene. And I think it is genetic, that… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
I believe in one secret and ineffable Lord; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
In England, there is this tradition of the upper classes going to very expensive drama schools and then going on having careers.… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he'd write my mother's new name under his on a scrap of paper...then, the one that hurt her teeth to see,… — Laura Kasischke Copy Share Image
John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
"I was just like a pathological liar when I was a kid. I think I just wanted to one-up somebody. Somebody would… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
In fact, there is only one true and holy religion, founded and instituted by Christ Our Lord. Mother and Nurse of the… — Pope Pius IX Copy Share Image
When my kids love my work, I feel elated and victorious; it means more to me than an Oscar. And when they… — Hrithik Roshan Copy Share Image
Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family,… — Roger Fouts Copy Share Image
Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
My daughter just graduated college and she's a dance major. She's done a couple of dance videos already and won Miss Massachusetts… — Doug Flutie Copy Share Image
My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a… — Mackenzie Phillips Copy Share Image
My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an English/Irish/Catholic father, there is no form of… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I have to do the work of self-love and affirmation, and say, "I am a woman, I am a person of color,… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
