Mother nature pushes you back the faster you go, same way people will full you back, the faster you succeed.

I’m an actress. In this sense, my profession is less complex than that of a model. True, they’re into beauty in Hollywood, and it is age-related, but you can’t put a girl with hot lips...

Ben had never seen his mother cry before, and it startled him, so he didn’t ask again. Right afterward she’d put on her favorite record and played a mysterious song called “Space Oddity,” about an...

My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn’t approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I...

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn’t understand her English, because she was Chinese.

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

What?

Hapa, watu wengi hawatumii majina ya pili ya baba zao. Hutumia jina la kwanza la mama la pili la baba; ndiyo maana Wameksiko wengi wana majina matatu. Kwa upande wangu, Patrocinio ni jina la baba...

Can you think what the Mirror of Erised shows us all?” Harry shook his head.”Let me explain. The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror,...

The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.

I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war?

A woman is a loving mother, a gorgeous daughter, and beautiful angel of imagination.

My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother.

Motherhood furnishes us with, not just giving life — but, partaking of life’s learning.

My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the ’50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.

the onewho gave me the seed which allowed for your presence.

We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

When I was in south Sudan, people used to rap in my village. But the rapping was more in the mother tongue, Nuer.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won’t complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children.

She’d never been big on church before, but as soon as we landed on cancer planet she went so over-the-top Jesucristo that I think she would have nailed herself to a cross if she’d had...

I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.

Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view.

My 68-year-old mother, Dora Simpson, got up on a ladder and painted one of these rooms. She and my sons – Issac, Terry, Nakia and Tony – helped with the cleanup and painting. I’m grateful...

My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don’t remember her. I do remember, though, when it was just my father and me, before he met...

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I’d hear a loud ‘A-hem!’ from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and...

She was like another mother to me. I used to wake up every morning and look at that picture, and now it’s gone.

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of...

Pray for good.Pray for happy.And always pray for Mom.

That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery.

When Eleanor was a little girl, she’d thought her mom looked like a queen, like the star of some fairy tale.Not a princess – princesses are just pretty. Eleanor’s mother was beautiful. She was tall...

There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back...

Cheney brought my mother up to the casket, so she could pay her respects. She is in her 80’s, and she has glaucoma and has trouble seeing. There were steps, and he left her there....

There is No Greater Satisfaction God greater then mother.

I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country’s civil war in the late 1960s.

When my mother threw a party, even as a kid, she’d call me in and say, ‘Organize it for me.’

How could I have been a wife, a mother and a singer? Who takes care of the piccolini when you go around the world? Your children would not call you ‘Mama,’ but ‘Renata.’

My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young,...

The answer is no way, no how. From the sisters to the mother, every last one of them said it never happened.

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and...

However the word I was going to say was…suggestive.

To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran the Manhattan Project wrote the rules about black...

An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones.

Sydney’s the kind of port that leaves a mark on a sailor,” the old man mused. “Really?” Haakon said, wondering what the man meant. “It did on me,” he said, opening up his shirt to...

I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage.

I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.

Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?

…my father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days, weeks,...