Oh, my dear! I’m afraid you’ve mistaken me for someone else! My name is Rhea Silvia. I was the mother to Romulus… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
My mother had died when I wrote my first book. I was twenty-seven, so it was right at the beginning of my… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
I'm very glad my mother didn't let me quit piano lessons at age 10. She said I wasn't old enough or good… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my father didn't work two… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a… — Robert Englund Copy Share Image
Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman,… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
Pedro Almodóvar asked me to watch italian films again as homework to look at the energy of all those women from the… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
We have to get to the Self beyond its physical and mental instrumentalities to realize we are not fragile mortal beings; there… — Daya Mata Copy Share Image
New Orleans is just so full of culture in the music content - blues, folk. I was introduced to a lot of… — Luke James Copy Share Image
When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“My life has been like a battlefield, a war that could never be won unless I had her with me, and the… — Rebecah McManus Copy Share Image
The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes - it never tires - it endures through all; in good… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
I often saw weary little women coming to the table after most exhausting labors, and large, bumptious husbands spreading out their hands… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I took my mother's knife and played johnny johnny johnny on the playhouse floor. I was drunk, stabbed myself every few throws.… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I looked at her. my lovely, tall mother with her pretty coil of hair and her hard, bitter mouth. Her veins were… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
F*CK ( o Y o ) CANCER!! My mother gave me life & never once asked for anything in return. That is… — JMe Copy Share Image
Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: “If this is really the unaided work of a young lady,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Chosen motherhood is the real liberation. The choice to have a child makes the whole experience of motherhood different, and the choice… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed… — Payne Stewart Copy Share Image
Part of my writing style can be attributed to my mother's impatience with comedy, because whenever I told her a story she… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
My mom was my rock, my confidant and my best friend. She was an elementary school teacher who worked with students with… — Matt Barnes Copy Share Image
“God made a wonderful mother, a mother who never grows old; He made her smile of the sunshine, and He molded her… — Pat O'Reilly Copy Share Image
I think it a much wiser thing to secure for the thousands of mothers in this State the legal control of the… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“He’s only with me because I’m your sister,” I said hotly. “Diana—Demeter, she’s my mother. She decided to have me in a… — Aimee Carter Copy Share Image
For the pageants, it was my mother who got me involved in Miss America. It really gave me the opportunity to sing… — Jane Badler Copy Share Image
I just wanted to make a million dollars. But I couldn't sing and I couldn't play ball, so I said to my… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said,… — Indra Nooyi Copy Share Image
My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines. My mother was a… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
All your life you sacrificed your own happiness for ours. As a mother, you did everything to make things perfect for us.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
While I believed deeply in my husband's vision for this country... and I was certain he would make an extraordinary President... like… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled… — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
There is so much conflicting advice for mothers. Women finding out what works for them is the most important aspect. For me,… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I was blessed, because I come from a family where they knock you down before you float away. I have a lot… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
