“Special Agent Maya Miller: My mother says being a parent makes you selfish. Wendy Byrde: No. No. It makes you fierce.”— Bill Dubuque, Mark Williams, Martín Zimmerman, Wendy Byrde, Laura Linney, imdb.com
“At the end of your life you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child or a parent.”— Barbara Bush, amazon.com
“My father is a wonderful man, but he is also very much a business guy and strong and tough as hell. He was also an unbelievably demanding taskmaster.”— Donald Trump, amazon.com
“I admit it’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, or the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit, but the best anyone of us can do is not quit. Play the hand we’ve been given, and accessorize the outfit we’ve got.”— Allan Heinberg, Carrie Bradshaw, Sarah Jessica Parker, imdb.com
“Never underestimate a parent's ability to mortify his child.”— John Stephens, Seth Cohen, Adam Brody, imdb.com
“We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“I want his three children to know: wasn't anything strange about your daddy. It was strange what your daddy had to deal with.”— Al Sharpton, amazon.com
“I just clung closer to her and knew the boogeyman couldn't get me, not as long as Mama held me in her arms, not as long as I didn't think about the little girl who had been cut up and stuffed in a trunk -- only a block away from our house -- the one crime that freaked me out when I was still very yo…”— Etta James, amazon.com
“"Girl," Willie said to me one time, "you look just like your papa. You're the spitting image of Minnesota Fats."”— Etta James, amazon.com
“I remember Mama poured me milk and tried to show me how to drink from a cup, but I wouldn't wait. I didn't want to be shown anything. I took the cup and spilled the milk all over me.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“I had two mothers, two childhoods, lived two different lives in two different cities. Maybe that's why I became two different people.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“How incredible...the affection of a mother is for the infant whom she warms in her bosom and nurses and watches over with care, so that she passes sleepless nights, worries continually, and forgets herself!”— John Calvin, amazon.com
“His mom refers to you as 'that girl.' Mothers always know best, and if you just happen to be her son’s new flavor of the week, she definitely won’t be taking you seriously.”— Stassi R., thetalko.com