When a 12-year-old, a 13-year-old, so desperately wants a baby what she's looking for is the kind of unconditional love a child gives a mother and a mother gives a child.

I am no mother, and I won't be one.

My daddy died when I was two years old. My mother raised my two older brothers and me. And we couldn't have had a better situation. I mean, she was the - ran the concession stand at the Little League, and she was the first woman president of The Touchdown Club, the booster club for the high school football team. And so, I had a wonderful childhood.

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.

It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.

The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.

A mother who is really a mother is never free.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.