But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it.
Chris Christie

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
Alan Alda

This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I've worked with Robert Redford.
Jennifer Lopez

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.
Anna Quindlen

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
Anna Quindlen

Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.
Anna Quindlen

My mother used to tell me, No matter what they ask you, always say yes. You can learn later.
Natalie Wood

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
Rupert Murdoch

I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
Natalie Wood

What I do say is, yes, children may be resilient and they have been able to deal with all sorts of difficulties they have faced, but the bottom line is this: I believe very strongly children need a mother and a father in the home.
Timothy Murphy

Invention is the mother of necessity.
Thorstein Veblen

My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York.
Tom Felton

These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.
Isabella Rossellini

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
Olive Schreiner

I am now at an age when they wanted me to play her mother.
Isabella Rossellini

I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to.
Isabella Rossellini

But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
Isabella Rossellini

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.
Whoopi Goldberg

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
Lenny Kravitz