My mother tongue is Punjabi, but my first language is Urdu, which was the case with the people in undivided Punjab.

What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?

My mother thought of my father as half barbarian and half blunt instrument, and she isolated him from his children.

Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.

I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.

I think it's very empowering to be able to have a career and to be a mother. It gives you an amazing sense of self.

I think the best thing, or the greatest thing my girls have going for them, is having their mother as a role model.

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.

When I'm off the clock, I usually play video games - or do something nature-y so I can contribute to Mother Nature.

From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.

I know I'm talented, but I wasn't put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family.

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

I'm not really single. I mean I am, but i have a son. Being a single mother is different from being a single woman.

I'm not outright seeking stuff. Because all I want to do is done. I bought my mother a nice house and pretty dress.

There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day. It would mean a lot. World peace.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.

Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful.

Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.

I think my mom just filled me with confidence. I just thought I was the best at everything. Like any mother really.

My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.

I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.

My mother is the kind of woman you don't want to be in line behind at the supermarket. She has coupons for coupons.

My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.

Tranvestism is far more common among men, I noted, because it originates in the primary relation of mother and son.

I dedicate the love, enthusiasm, welcome and respect given to me to the feet of 125 crore children of Mother India.

A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.

My father was a simple man; my mother was a simple woman; you see the result standing in front of you, a simpleton.

The loving care of Mother Earth is in many quarters replacing the former sense of obedience to the Heavenly Father.

You get to Alcatraz by being the worst of the worst. Unless you're me. I came here because my mother said I had to.

With being a mother, I feel like you choose how you spend your time so much more carefully - which is a good thing.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.

Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.

I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.

A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body.

Every father was his own man. He did what he wanted. If your mother went shopping, your father never went with her.

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

My mother just wanted me to forget it. So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevocably branded into my brain.

Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.

I love Nudge, Nudge is a great kid, but that motormouth of hers could have turned Mother Teresa into an ax murderer.

I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see.

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