“If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.” IfsWantGivingYearsYoungMotherChancePayFourTaxesPrisonHorribleFour YearsContributors Author:Kevin O'Leary
“Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.” GivingDifferentSchoolMother Author:Michael Reagan
“I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.” GivingLittlesDreamEyeMotherCertainEvilBloodCrossesAlways BelieveGrandmaGypsyEvil Eye Author:Sam Raimi
“I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.” GivingMotherActorsFourWeekSummerDaughterSillyNineMovieTurned DownVancouverSilly Movie Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.” WantGivingWantedUsedMotherVoiceLessonsSingingPainful Author:Linda Lavin
“Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.” IfsThinkingGivingStillsI CanFeelingsPainMotherCan DoSleepForgetLevelsBrainEmpowermentFunctionIncrediblesScaryVocabularyBeing A MotherGrumpy Author:Anna Friel
“A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.” GivingHeartMayChildrenStillsAgeMotherLove IsYouthDevotionGoldenGentleLinksCheeksRecallsBrowsMother's Love Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always told me that God saved her so she could give me life. I was born out of nothing.” GivingMotherBornMonthsGive MeSavedPoundsEighteenAuschwitz Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation” GivingMotherNationsBirthPromiseGive MeEducatedCivilized Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer dances, meaning arises. When a mother gives birth to a child, meaning arises. Left alone, cut off from everything else, isolated like an island, you are meaningless. Joined together you are meaningful. The bigger the whole, the bigger is the meaning.” GivingWritingChildrenWholeMotivationalTogetherMotherLeftCuttingPoetBirthBiggerMeaningfulAriseIslandsDancerMeaninglessIsolatedNot AloneLeft Alone Author:Rajneesh
“When my mother was trying to teach me how to make friends when I was a kid, she'd bring girls over to the house and I'd give them all my clothes. Nothing changes, I still do it. And then I wonder, "Where is that really nice Isabel Marant dress that I spent a fortune on? Oh my god, I gave it to Liza."” GivingTryingStillsKidsMotherGirlHouseWonderTeachNiceClothesDressesFortuneThings ChangeReally Nice Author:Courtney Love
“Stupid word, that. Period. In America it means 'full stop,' like in punctuation. That's stupid as well. A period isn't a full stop. It's a new beginning. I don't mean all that creativity, life-giving force, earth-mother stuff, I mean it's a new beginning to the month, relief that you're not pregnant, when you don't have to have a child.” GivingWellsMeanChildrenEarthAmericaMotherForceStuffCreativityStupidMonthsPeriodsReliefPregnantNew BeginningsPunctuation Author:Michelene Wandor