"Don’t even talk to me about being a mother. You were never a mother! Just the psychotic twat I lived with for the first fourteen years."
Brandon Shire
"When people give me a compliment, I just look back and smile, as I am just a glimpse of both my father's. Both earthly and heavenly."
Silas Packianathan
"Motherhood was a twenty-four-hour-a-day, all-encompassing job. It was the hardest job I ever had. Everything that happened to you [her child] happened to me. I had once heard children described in a novel as 'hostages to fortune' and certainly my happiness depended on yours."
Amy Poehler
"For me, this baby was the most precious thing I had ever had. He was my treasure, my joy, my world, my everything now."
Preeti Shenoy
"Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly."
Frank Abagnale
"Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all."
Glenda Millard
"I couldn’t miss Percy’s fifteenth birthday,” Poseidon said. “Why, if this were Sparta, Percy would be a man today!”'That’s true,” Paul said. “I used to teach ancient history.”Poseidon’s eyes twinkled. “That’s me. Ancient history."
Anonymous
"My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship with Bengali literature, particularly Tagore, and my interest besides reading then was music."
Siddhartha Mukherjee
"I am reminded that the children we birth do not belong to us. They belong to God. We are simply the vessel through which they arrive on this earth. We are appointed to care for and guide them; however, we must recognize when the time comes for them to govern their own lives."
Nancy B. Brewer
"I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher."
Bobby Knight
"Give your child quality time. If you're going to be with him for two hours, then disconnect from absolutely everything. Look at him in the eyes - get to know your baby. Sitting there as you watch TV is not quality time to me."
Sandra Echeverria
"The miracle of children is that we just don’t know how they will change or who they will become."
Eileen Kennedy-Moore
"Talk about getting off tangent. My mother's friend may have just killed his wife and my parents are sitting there talking about cows."
Wendy Lichtman
"In the end, it all comes down to the Blood..."
Nathan Walsh
"Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap."
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