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.’

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.