Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn’t include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.

People in India like to touch a lot. It’s not very nice for any girl to be touched by strangers wherever they want. You wouldn’t do that to your sister or mother, but just because...

I remember seeing this picture my mother had of Dick Clark. It didn’t inspire me to be an actor or anything, but when I did ‘American Dreams’ with Dick Clark, my mother came out, and...

a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God

If you honour your mother, the Mother of the Universe will guard you against harm.

To know myself as woman in the image of God to know God as Mother and to know my own mother as a window into God: these three are inseparable.If one is implausible to the...

may my touchalways…be tenderas i would strokemother’s cheekswhen she cried.

Part of me has certainly been motivated by wanting to take a stand against the restrictions that made Mother give up so much.

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

Kodachrome… it gives us those nice, bright colors,gives us the greens of summers,makes ya think all the world’s a sunny day,Oh yeah!I’ve got a Nikon camera, I’d love to take a photograph,so mama don’t take…my...

Don’t you find it strange that your mother would leave you?’ Becky said. ‘I can’t imagine my other leaving me.’I’d never thought of it like that before. ‘I don’t think she knew what else to...

There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mother’s clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.

The sweetest thing I could say about my mother and father is that if I had the choice, I would have picked them. But I don’t have any belief in biology or DNA as compelling...

Her mother done told her a lot of stories. My plan is to sit down and talk to her and let her know that a lot of things she heard aren’t true, and let her...

On this Mother’s Day and every day before and after, I thank you God for the precious gift of my three children. I love them unconditionally.

I eat like a horse – my mother still brings me Cadbury’s chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite – but I work out.

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I’m going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don’t remember reading.

When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.

As I was growing up, you know, I’m a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and my mother’s family had fled the czars of Russia before that.

In 2008, while the film version of my book ‘Choke’ was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about...

If, as a culture, we don’t bear witness to grief, the burden of loss is placed entirely upon the bereaved, while the rest of us avert our eyes and wait for those in mourning to...

My mother is my doctorCaring for me when am illI will love her forever tillWe are gone to our creator!

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

One day, promised herself as she lay abed, one day she would allow herself to be less than strong.

When describing myself, I don’t use superlatives. Just normal latives. And if I use the same word more than once to describe myself, it’s a relative. This is how I became my own father. And...

No matter what you do each day…or in life…doing things God’s way is a matter of the heart.

I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother is Hispanic. But English was my second language, believe it or not.

Mother’s hug- The only drug that works every time, costs nothing and has no side effects.

I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a...

I would consider all women as my mother but not all girls as my sisters.

My mother brought me numerous times to visit Orton as a child, and I have visited the gardens with my children many times. Orton is a gem on the Cape Fear River and I am...

My distant but always a close friend, the loss of a mother is always painful for her children, I am beside you in this hour of grief. Life can be a stepmother , really severe!...

It hasn’t been easy. Most mom-and-pops sell to developers. My mother didn’t want to do that.

When you’re pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again, yet after having given birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to...

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‘mother wit’ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb....

But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my own drama.

We are so excited that, in the strangely illuminating phrase my mother favours, we’re completely beside ourselves.

Even if Mary gives birth to a child who is not her husband’s, if she has a shining pride, they become a holy mother and child.

No matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still there. He knew it was like the soldiers he had read about. They would have an arm or a...

You were formed inside a borrowed womb—a nourishing safe haven for months—then delivered through painful effort and sacrifice by a woman willing to give you the precious gift of life. That truth alone deserves your...

LIKE MOTHER, LIKE LOVERThere is the motherWho cooks too muchTo feed her children,And there is the motherWho cooks too little,Or not at all.There is the birdThat returns to its nestWith just a frail wormAnd feeds...

It was full of wounding remarks rather brilliantly said, perhaps said for the sheer virtuosity of giving pain neatly. Each of its phrases found its way through the eyes of the Marquesa, then, carefully wrapped...

When I got married, my mother was very surprised. She said: ‘What on earth is going on? I thought you were gay?’

My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands – he sang with Bob Crosby’s band – but he had to give up show business when...

One night when we were lying under the stars together she pointed to this beaming bright star beside the moon and said wherever she was in the world, whether we were together or apart, that...

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.

It’s been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds...

You look fine. – Right. I look fine. Except I don’t, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man’s nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn’t be able to protect...

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.