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.

A day without your child is like a day without sunshine; a month without your child is like a month without laughter; a year without your child is like a year without your heart; a...

My mother certainly doesn’t think I’m charming!

She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas.

My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is...

My mother is a walking miracle…

For me, my mother is everything.

I smiled and looked at her- there she was with such a genuine grin and twinkle in her eyes. I kissed my mother on her forehead and took a long look in to her hazel...

I don’t know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it’s something that anyone can make – pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad – but it carries a certain taste of...

You don’t need to be primary caregiver of your children to be of primary influence in their lives. What you do for them behind the scenes in your own unique way is what makes the...

My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.

Really, Mom? That’s your advice? Boys are like candy. What is that? Forrest Gump on teens?

If your best friend truly is the person who knows you completely and loves you anyway, wouldn’t that be your mother?

Your mother loves you too, son, more than anything in the world. She worries about you, day and night.”That sentiment stirred something profoundly pleasant inside the boy. He grinned at the internal warmth it created.

As I cooked in the cauldron of motherhood, the incredible love I felt for my children opened my heart and brought me a much greater understanding of universal love. It made me understand the suffering...

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings – not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

Many parents lack a biblical view of discipline. They tend to think of discipline as revenge – getting even with the children for what they did. Hebrews 12 makes it clear that discipline is not...

Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.

My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and...

Successful teaching is not head-to-head; it is heart-to-heart.

My mother was my best friend and confidante.

I know you think I should be home taking care of my family. That maybe I’d be distracted or I wouldn’t be as committed as the rest of you, but who’s more committed: the person...

Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.

The last time I heard real screaming in the theatre was when I went to see a movie I did years ago, called ‘Wait Until Dark.’ Now, my mother was the least emotional person on...

No! I need to go home,” I say, but then the realization comes: My mother was my home. My mother is dead.

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.

My mother was against me being an actress – until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

I didn’t know about competition or the Olympics until Peggy Fleming won in 1968. My mother looked after all of the competition stuff. I just skated. I didn’t really love competition, but that was the...

Thanks to my mother, people tell me I look younger than I am, especially without make-up. And I suppose my father had a part in making me more frugal with my money.

We want Max to… breed. To produce heirs. Who will govern the world after she dies.”Dead silence for quite some time. We all stared at Dr. Hans, our jaws dropped to various levels. Our lives...

Hi Lady, Hi Woman.., all that Naomi had, all that Mary had, all that Esther had, all that Elizabeth had, YOU ALSO HAVE… Go, make your dreams come true!

Each night the black sky and the bright stars were my stunning companions; occasionally I’d see their beauty and solemnity so plainly that I’d realize in a piercing way that my mother was right. That...

I’ll name my firstborn child Squiblob, after his mother.

The French Revolution was the best thing to ever happen inside a croissant the shape of the Fertile Crescent, with a flaky crust like a politician with dandruff.” Of course, when Orafoura told me this...

Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long.

I don’t want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?

No one ever had a better father than I did. Father was a disciplinarian, and Mother was a very loving woman who taught us out of the scriptures. The Book of Mormon was her favorite.

I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me...

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‘Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?’ But as...

The expression in her eyes was bitter as nightshade. ‘You ask me about regret? Let me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You cannot find the...

Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my faith grew.

I’m the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I’m the mother of two children.

She and her mother took a fellow who was in cardiac arrest and gave him what appears to be a temporary new lease on life.

My father’s love was always strongMy mother’s glamour lives on and on.Yet still inside I felt alone, for reasones unknow to me.

I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it’s all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the...

My father and I are friends and my mother and I don’t speak. It’s a bummer. I miss her.

I love you every day,Mom

Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as...