I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Since you are determined to be married, Miss Cornelia," said Gilbert solemnly, "I shall give you the excellent rules for the management… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What if she stepped on a needle and it went right into her foot and Roberta would not feel it and the… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The truth is, when our mothers held us, rocked us, stroked our heads -none of us ever got enough of that. We… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she… — Hank Snow Copy Share Image
Lucy said, 'We're so afraid of being sent away, Aslan. And you have sent us back into our own world so often.'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the century. He was… — Bonnie Bedelia Copy Share Image
I have never seen a picture of my mother. My mother's family never owned a photograph of her, which tells you everything… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Our television set was in the bedroom. I can picture my mother fast asleep, exhausted from driving my brothers around. I can… — Anne Murray Copy Share Image
Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Our ability to fall in love requires enough comfort with our masculinity to join it with someone's femininity and feel enhanced. ..… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
“But her eyes would look cold, though her voice might be gentle, and her hand when it fondled would be tentative, unwilling.… — Radclyffe Hall Copy Share Image
“I hated my mother who had gone without telling me, I hated my father who had done nothing to stop her, I… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“I look at my parents the way mothers look at their toddlers. I take every chance to witness them undisturbed. To study… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Being pregnant is not license to forget all the rules that you abide by when you're not pregnant. Moving your body, getting… — David Kirsch Copy Share Image
We're very enthused about the idea that in the third trimester we actually give the mother a vaccine and her antibodies, the… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
You could have a woman who is also a mother. I mean, it's just there - the roles of women is just… — Maria Echaveste Copy Share Image
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
“My mom says, "Do you know what the AIDS memorial quilt is all about?" Jump to how much I hate my brother… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, 'What am I… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
We got Arbitron diaries at my house in the 1980s, when the family was down to just my mother and me, and… — Hank Stuever Copy Share Image
“Those of us directed towards the right were lined up in threes with much shooting and beating. I was in the first… — Azriel Feuerstein Copy Share Image
My mother is practical and my father is fun, hes kind of free spirited and my mother is still fun but she… — Florence And The Machine Copy Share Image
I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her. My whole life sort of ended… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I am all the time talking about you, and bragging, to one person or another. I am like the Ancient Mariner, who… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
The Greatest Pregnancy Ever is a treasure. It should be the very first thing a pregnant woman reads - in fact, every… — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
“While part of my mind puzzled that out, I watched my mother with fascination. I'd listened to her tell her stories. I'd… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I've known a lot of very religious people. My mother is very religious, but she was also very - is very private… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
Not only my parents but the whole family was involved in the resistance - my grandfather and grandmother, my uncles and aunts,… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
I have a characteristic since my childhood. I don't like living together with my mother, sister, or friends at my home. I… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
You were born to lead as mothers and fathers because nowhere is righteous leadership more crucial than in the family. You were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The current leadership of the Labor party react to the idea that working-class students might study the subjects they studied with the… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
When you are the woman upstairs, nobody thinks of you first. Nobody calls you before anyone else, or sends you the first… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“I took a final look at my mother’s silhouette in the doorway and tightened my grip on the steering wheel. Hades followed… — Kaitlin Bevis Copy Share Image
The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Most people who live at the border or are familiar with the border know that a Berlin-like wall stretching from San Diego… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
