Book Quote by Nicole Krauss

What I didn't realize is how completely consumed I would be by my sons. I didn't know that the rest of my life would…

— Jodie Foster

For a while, I was feeling so creative in motherhood that I had no longing to work. I felt that my children needed me,…

— Carrie-Anne Moss

For me, having a child was that cliched, life-altering experience where everything took on a different meaning. Things that had once been priorities had…

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

— Maj Sjowall

My children came along at a perfect time in my life. My career was soaring, and they didn't care who I thought I was.…

— Sissy Spacek

The single moment when I knew that I had to get busy and do more was around the death of my son.

— Bobby Rush

There was a time when I knew just what I was living for. There was a time, and the time was so long ago.

— Anonymous

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me.…

— Rick Baker

Learning of my father's passing at age 55 not only shattered the world, far from home, that had become my reality, but catapulted my…

— Tim Cope

All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while…

— Nicole Krauss

Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the…

— Nicole Krauss

At the point when I lost my father, it really made me want to be like a father and be like my father. It…

— Scottie Pippen