Mother is dead.

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a...

She has that voraciousness about children. She swoops in on them. Even I, in public was a beloved child. She’d parade me into town, smiling and teasing me, tickling me as she spoke with people...

My mother is my pastor She teaches me the BibleI love her as my mentorShe tells me to be humble!

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

Catelyn wanted to run to him, to kiss his sweet brow, to wrap him in her arms so tightly that he would never come to harm….

My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.

God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside–in the inner woman and her heart–and then works outward.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother’s womb.

I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.

To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O’Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.

I’ve written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played.

Aristotle uses a mother’s love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes. But for me as a mother, the moral implications are very clear. We...

Maybe a mother wasn’t what she seemed to be on the surface.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

Think twice before you pull your trouser and rape a woman; she may be your mother, sister or friend, and you know the consequences that follows.

My mother said to me, “If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.

I still like getting dressed up and having the opportunity to borrow beautiful dresses, but as a mother – and as somebody who’s schedule isn’t always my own – I don’t shop a lot, or...

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.

Not wanting the girls to endure the shame of a crazy mother, I spent my days acting as normal as possible. I walked through life, an actor in a Leave it to Beaver episode, determined...

A good wife is of value only to her husband. A good mother is a national asset.

My coach’s mother died just before that match and I remember I almost didn’t play, … I wasn’t really at my best and James was playing well then.

Mother is her son’s first god; she must teach him the most important lesson of all – how to love.

To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don’t feel it, you have to pretend.

My view is that life is too short. I’m not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms – just you and her, and it’s one o’clock in the morning, and...

Under her thick pancake makeup, her skin had been pockmarked, but he would stare at her adoringly from his cot at night and imagine her scars were constellations, a secret map to a far-off, happy...

Despite my mother saying I have been destined to be an actress my whole life, I remember being the kid who grew up not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.

In daylight and up close, he was merciless, all smiles and freckles, the brightest, boldest flame a moth could wish for.

I’ve never really been serious about my villainy. I don’t have a master plan. I suppose my philosophy is: Every villain has a mother. For every cold-blooded killer on your screen, there’s a little old...

Mother’s ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide.

Don’t even talk to me about being a mother. You were never a mother! Just the psychotic twat I lived with for the first fourteen years.

I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I won’t be getting out of line anytime soon.

If you can’t go back to your mother’s womb, you’d better learn to be a good fighter.

I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved.

One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told ‘Texas’ Jean Valli about me. She was originally from Syracuse, N.Y., and lived in New Jersey but sang country. One night, she had...

Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers and boys used to dress like their fathers. Now girls drink like their fathers and boys dress like their mothers.

In the back of the fridge I checked out some stewed apples destined to fester. I examined them closely and reckoned they had only a day to go, even by my standards. I spooned the...

Some people say—not to my face, mind you—that I’m a cowardly son of a bitch. And that is simply not true. My mom is not a bitch.

The Trinitarian believes a virgin to be the mother of a son who is her maker.

Aside from the fact that you’re not my son, and I’m not a woman, do you think I’m a good mother?

That’s so different in Hong Kong when I’m using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness...

A photograph of a disposable diaper floating in the arctic miles away from human habitat fueled my daily determination to save at least one disposable diaper from being used and created. One cloth diaper after...

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don’t think I would be comfortable any other way.

For the pageants, it was my mother who got me involved in Miss America. It really gave me the opportunity to sing all around New Hampshire. And it was great when I was young, but...

When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her....

Two brothers. Two different worlds. Different mothers, of course. Did that explain it? Women usually explained everything.