“I will probably only give birth to two and then the rest will come to our family however it happens. I can only hold two, but you never know. I really want a boy because boys love their mamas!” KnowsWantGivingI CanTwoHappensBoysBirthOur FamilyMama Author:Ana Ortiz
“If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.” IfsThinkingGivingI CanBoysCorporationsHumanisticInjection Author:Ruth Simmons
“As far as I'm concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she's really down to earth. She's got all those Oscars, she's made all those amazing films and she could spend her whole life doing that, but what does she also do? She gives birth to three boys and creates her own theatre in Sydney.” GivingDoeMadeWholeEarthFilmThreeBoysBirthConcernedTheatreWhole LifeGoddessOscarsDown To EarthSydney Author:Sylvester McCoy
“I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.” ThinkingGivingTryingTwoWantedGirlParentBornBoys Author:Alex Borstein
“I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.” ThinkingGivingGirlBoysSuccessfulPositionOughtBasesPaidDevotionImpressMiscellaneousUnselfishBoy And GirlSuccessful Marriage Book:My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962 Source: My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962
“I like to see Quentin (Roosevelt) practicing baseball. It gives me hope that one of my boys will not take after his father in this respect, and will prove able to play the national game.” GivingPlayAbleFatherGamesBoysProveBaseballGive MeMy BoysQuentin Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee-with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's.” IfsGivingWritingYearsIdeasEndsBigsRememberBoysFiveFourReturnPaperSixGive MeSevenCoffeeCupsRememberedShakesSilverChocolatePensLunchSugarThickBobDesksSeven YearsOrderlyCoffee CupWaitressNapkins Author:David
“Boy, does that give you street cred for years after, if you tell people you were on 'The Larry Sanders Show!'” PeopleIfsGivingYearsDoeShowsBoysStreetsLarry Author:Janeane Garofalo
“My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.” IfsWorldWantGivingTwoDreamBornBoysJourneyStreetsIndiaPocketsPencilsDefiningBeggingMy Journey Author:Adam Braun