Famous Quotes & Sayings

Drew Barrymore

I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table.

Robert Frost

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Thomas Moore

This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!

Rudyard Kipling

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

Jodi Picoult

The best place to cry is on a mother's arms.

Oprah Winfrey

I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.

Lauren Bacall

I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.

Emily Dickinson

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

Adrienne Rich

It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

Jim Riccitelli

You never want to give the other team momentum for a long time, so fortunately we took it away.

Brett Ratner

Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.

Barbara Mandrell

I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.

Ayelet Waldman

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

Brian Sandoval

Dad worked his entire career as an aviation technician. Mom was a legal secretary who became a teacher. We lived a simple American life.

Brenda Song

I'm a huge breast cancer awareness advocate because my mom went through breast cancer recently. It really brought our family closer.

Carine Roitfeld

I'm always anxious when it comes to my kids. This always makes me feel very vulnerable. Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama, you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.

Miley Cyrus

I never had, like, a nanny that took care of me. My mom always fed me breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Miley Cyrus

Every day after work, my mom and I go shopping. My dad is about to kill me. I say, We need it, daddy!

George Cox

It was this issue of prior restraint that was at the heart of our objections.

Brett Ratner

Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.

Baha'u'llah

The Great Being saith: Human utterance is an essence which aspireth to exert its influence and needeth moderation. As to its influence, this is conditional upon refinement which in turn is dependent upon hearts which are detached and pure. As to its moderation, this hath to be combined with tact and wisdom as prescribed in the Holy Scriptures and Tablets.

Benito Mussolini

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Brian Tracy

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

Brad Paisley

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

Brad Barkley

Cal," I whisper into her sleep, "if you go, you know what? You'll break my liver." I want to pretend that it's a joke, that she will wake up and laugh with me, throwing her head back the way she did last night, bit this time the words are true . . . she will break my liver, break my heart, kill everything inside alive inside me.

Jane Hirshfield

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

Jane Hirshfield

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.