I was six years old when my mother died. For a long time afterward, the sweet and earthy magnolia scent of her would permeate my dreams. No matter what I was dreaming about, good or...

I really turned into, you know, the real street kid. I was kind of like a runaway, but I had a mother, you know what I mean, and I had a place to stay.

Jacksonville was founded by a man named Jack. Jack’s last name wasn’t Sonville, as you’d expect. Oddly, Jack’s last name was Fatherville, but since Jack was himself a bastard, he found the name Jackfatherville to...

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Could you love an alcoholic cruel father, or a prostitute amoral mother? You could never love them, because they do not give you anything, but take your honour instead. Neither could you, if your native...

this is how you smile to someone you don’t like too much; this is how you smile to someone you don’t like at all; this is how you smile to someone you like completely; this...

Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins.

I didn’t want his mother to see his blood.

Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.

My father’s from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she’s actually Tibetan. I was born in Katmandu, lived there until I was eight ,and then moved to Australia with my mother and...

I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.

My mother picked me up in her arms, touching my checks comforting my distress. I stared into her eyes and held her hair in my small hands, for the first time realizing what a moment...

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and he insisted on paying back all his debts. That almost ruined the family....

When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn’t want any rich man.

She looked at the boy. He knew her weakness for storytelling. And it was, after all, only a story. Still, she wished he had chosen a happier one.

Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn’t achieve what I want.

CHARADE PARADEA ‘Special Day’ once a year creates an excuse for neglect on the other 365 days for mothers, fathers & veterans

Time is the mother of all secrets.

I don’t think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.

My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a...

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

WHAT DOES AN OLD MAN GAIN BY EXERCISINGwhat will he gain by talking on the phonewhat will he gain by going after fame, tell mewhat does he gain by looking in the mirrorNothingeach time he...

The only god visible to my eyes is “My Mother

Sometimes,” I ventured, “it doesn’t occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn’t stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were...

We’re not mad,” he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority.

My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

My bedroom was plastered with pictures of Van Damme. My mother was worried about me. Most teenage boys have half-naked women on their walls, and I had Jean-Claude.

After Nicholas hung up the phone, he watched his mother carry buckets and garden tools across the couch grass toward a bed that would, come spring, be brightly ablaze as tropical coral with colorful arctotis,...

It’s a mother’s greatest privilege to give birth, to raise a child. But a woman’s greatest honor is to look at her son with pride and know that she’s helped him become a man.

My mother is a Bahamian. My father is a Bahamian, as am I, … And all that I am, I’ve received from them and a country that has today given me the opportunities, and to...

Oh, is that right? You know, a lioness will protect her cub by baring her teeth, by roaring, using her claws to defend her cub if she feels she has to – this mother, has...

Most of us are perfect mothers as we love our children the most,but isn’t this too natural.?..Worth are those, who are not only good mothers, but are sincere wives too, role modeling justice and equality...

Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child.

The strange fact that out of millions of people in the world, your mother and father met and decided to get married to each other. And out of the millions of sperm, that the one...

The Healers—or Guardian Angels, as we were once known as—are given the most power from the sun. Our powers to heal others come from the light and good of the earth—it is what enables us...

And if that is to happen, then I just pray she’s adopted by a mother who loves her as much as I do.

A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.

ഒരമ്മ പരാതിപ്പെടുകയായിരുന്നു : “രണ്ടു മക്കളുണ്ട് ആദ്യത്തേത് വെളുപ്പിന് എഴുന്നേറ്റു സ്കൂള്‍ ബസ്‌ വരുവോളം പഠിക്കുന്ന മൂത്തവന്‍, രണ്ടാമത്തവന്‍ ബസിന്റെ ഹോണ്‍ കേള്‍ക്കുമ്പോള്‍ മാത്രം പള്ളിയുറക്കം കഴിഞ്ഞു ഉണരുന്നവന്‍ , എന്നിട്ടും പള്ളികൂടത്തില്‍ പോകുന്ന പാങ്ങ് കാണുന്നില്ല . കുറച്ചു മീനെ വളര്‍ത്തുന്നുണ്ട് അവയ്ക്ക് ഞാഞ്ഞൂല് പിടിച്ചു കൊടുക്കണ്ടെ...

My mother says I didn’t open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

I wonder if your mother was frightened by Peter Pan before you were born?

Before your mother’s conception of you, God knew you; before His ‪consecration of you, He had up set your assignments right! You are not an accident!‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

Captain Jibby looked at the door, clenched his teeth, and worked his face into a scowl so fierce you would think the door had insulted his mother – which, for the record, it had not.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Let your children uplift your burdens and allow your role as a mother – to flourish and grow.

You can’t love your mother or father if you don’t also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

If there’s a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we’ll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we’re...

If you’ve never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you’re never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

Dad will come back,’ said Charlie quietly.When Mrs Bone turned to him, she didn’t look sad at all, in fact she was smiling. ‘You know, Charlie, I’m beginning to believe you,’ she said. ‘After what...

They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.