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,...

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.

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 my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

Show me how to lactate, and I’ll be the best mother a father could be.

When you grow up your mother says, ‘Wear rubbers or you’ll catch cold.’ When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch...

I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It’s in my blood.

My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that...