The bonds of family, whether between mother and son, mother and daughter, or among siblings, will be explored in the 15 plays to be presented at the Stratford Festival in 2006.

Richard Monette

My mother-in-law gave me some good advice about being in the kitchen. Choose your imagination, which means if you find a recipe and you don't have all the ingredients, just pick something else to put in its place.

Kate Webster

It's very difficult for them, for his wife, for his mother.

Munir Ahmad

Some days he gets up really early, around four or five in the morning, and starts playing like crazy, climbing on his mother, climbing on the rocks.

Lisa Stevens

The love of a mother.

Nixzaliz Santiago

We fulfilled a promise and her dream that when the children grow up they can connect with their mother.

Vickie Mullins

His mother decided to tell him that I was his father.

Ross Browner

We will keep fighting so that Elian can live in a free country like his mother wanted. We believe in the laws of the United States.

Lazaro Gonzalez

Paternity is assumed when a child is born in a marriage. That's not the case in children born to a couple who are unmarried or to a mother who is unsure of the child's paternity.

Susan Moore

When I was 2, my mother took me on a trip to Monticello, Virginia, ... I can't remember the trip, but I'm certain it inspired me.

Barbara Frye

Schumann died in an asylum at age 46, and from that day on his wife Clara, an outstanding pianist and mother of his eight children, dressed in black from head to toe.

Roy Malan

Think how poor Mother Eve was brought to being as God's afterthought.

Anna Wickham

We believe that at this time it is probably in the best interest of the borough to give serious consideration now. I owe it to my mother in town.

Bob Full

It's a cliche to say she was the mother of the civil rights movement, but she was.

Julian Bond

The first thing he spoke about was our mother.

Sohail Khan

No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Florida Scott Maxwell

War is the father of all things. But who is the mother?

Gerhard Kocher

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is dear to me.

Bill Keane

This is definitely the biggest win for Mother Lode Christian girls' basketball in a long time.

Josh Milbourn

The whale has always flirted with this kind of danger. It was like that old children's cartoon, 'Are you my mother?' Orcas are very social animals, and this was the only way to get his social needs met.

Fred Felleman

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

Peter Abrahams

The grandmother can't take the dependency exemption if the mother claims the child for the Earned-Income Tax Credit any longer under the new rules.

Jackie Perlman

People have the mindset that we have to claim this land from Mother Nature.

Mike Hayden

They step on her accidentally sometimes, but she's their mother. They follow her wherever she goes.

Jimmie Spady

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see.

Pope Paul Vi

They're going after her because she's a mother.

Stephen Fried

Right now we are basically hoping that Mother Nature and the weather co-operate with us.

Rich Coleman

This war is not our war, ... As a mother, not just as a minister, send your kids to school. It's the right thing to do.

Limor Livnat

Please, no, por favor, por favor, please no, I implore you. I was doing it for my family! My mother she's sick and my father he lives off the garbage. The king offered me much money and I have a little brother...

Antonio Banderas

I would be tempted to recommend that the baby be named Wellesley, but that's up to the mother.

Howard Moscoe

It's all about Mother Nature and my body healing on its own.

Darrent Williams

My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.

Wendy Liebman

The sword is very handsome. I am too old and infirm, as you see, to ever use a sword again, but I am glad that my old mother state has not entirely forgotten me.

George Rogers Clark

Hines sat with me for a few hours as we edited and he was asking me all about my job and what I went to school for. That was definitely a unique experience knowing that it meant a lot to him and his mother.

Pete Gergely

That's because people know how they would feel if the woman were her granddaughter, or mother, or her niece.

Ann Stone

An uncle told us that my father's mother looked out for him to return every day, and he never got back. She looked for him every day, for 35 years, and never saw him again.

Jim Yee

In black America mother love is second only to the love of God - but just slightly.

Michael Eric Dyson

The Lone Ranger's Mother Comes for a Visit.

Arthur Anderson

How many brand new son(s)-in-law say that to the mother-in-law? ... Can you see why I loved him so much? He was so kind.

Thelma Soares

This mother did everything she could to bring this to [District 50's] attention, and they did nothing.

Irene Dymkar

The Queen although head of her family has always deferred to her mother.

Hugo Vickers

My mother's mother was full-blooded Yavapai, and my mother's father was full-blooded Apache. On my dad's side it is the same way.

Shanna Ramirez

He will be sleeping within an arm's length from his father and mother.

Prince Frederik

The quality of work is twice as good. The baseboards remind me of the old baseboards my mother had. In general, the lifestyle here is just much better.

Olivia Toca

I actually sat out in the audience a few times with my mother.

Denzel Washington

I'm just afraid I'm gonna miss it all... being married... being a mother.

Karen Carpenter

This little girl is as strong and capable and bright as she can be because of her mother. It makes us hopeful for the future…that she will in the long run do well.

John Mattingly

To me, cases like that really scream out, 'Hey, it's not out there. It's in here.' There's no indication that this mother is prone to raise very feminine boys because his twin is not that way.

Michael Bailey

It was a humbling experience, realizing the fury of Mother Nature when it comes to disasters.

Lynn Yeates

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.

Barry Humphries

She didn't say anything, her teacher didn't say anything, the mother didn't say anything. So the contest proceeded.

Steve Mulvenon

She is incredibly fit. But we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother. There's no need to do six engagements in a day.

Prince Andrew

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.

Dick Gregory

I have struck the mother lode of patriotism.

Jim Gilchrist

We treat callers as if they were our own mother or a relative.

Susan Wyderko

We were so happy because the baby looked alright, but the mother was still screaming. There was another baby in the car. It was so crazy.

Henry Nunez

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Thomas Hardy

I figured if his mother wasn't nervous it would be OK.

Sara Baker

Every single bill that a legislator introduces is important to somebody. It might not be important to you or your neighbor or your mother, but it might be important to your doctor or your plumber or your sister.

Steve Miskin

Everyone has to have a purpose. For so many women of a certain generation, it was being a wife and mother.

Sunny Lawrence

He loved his family and friends, gatherings. He especially adores his mother. First comes God, then his mother.

Sheikh Ahmad

She did everything for them, changed their diapers. She was the mother hen.

Wanda Lewis

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.

Marie Antoinette

She was a loving, caring person, and a wonderful mother. She will be missed.

Dan Gallagher

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

James George Frazer

It has been a very rough year. Mother Nature hasn't done us any favors.

Connie King

My mother had morning sickness after I was born.

Rodney Dangerfield

Mother didn't read the book until a long time later. When she did, she was shocked.

Jimmy Mcleod

It was the most stressful day of my life. It was absolutely terrible knowing that I might have to leave because my dad's condition was unstable and my mother was looking after everything herself.

Cheryl Everall

Sometimes Mother Nature decides to throw a curve ball.

Charles Bronson

It was difficult for my mother to travel with my father. He was 92 and he'd been sick. He couldn't do anything by himself. It was difficult for her to get him in and out of the car.

James Maxey

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

Gracie Allen

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

Susan Lucci

She was just crying her eyes out. She told me that she was going with her mother today to identify the body and she just wanted to see the place where he died.

Theresa Smith

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

Virginia Madsen

The Santa Claus hat was in the back seat of his car, and he got it from his mother for Christmas.

Victoria Pino

The fog hurt us a lot. Mother Nature is fickle.

Angus Mackenzie

Mother Nature has been an incredible bull. It's hard to imagine a scenario more bullish than we've had.

Kyle Cooper

It really is crazy for him to be so possessed to kill his mother and brother.

Darrell Jones

Poetry is the mother of superstition.

Thomas Sprat

I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me.

Curtis Jackson

My mother passed away on May 24.

Alicia Pruitt

My whole life, my mother told me I would have SAG to fall back on. When I see a woman in her mid-40s or mid-50s working, I know it makes things better for me.

Melissa Gilbert

I think he was very ahead of his time in his thinking because he could see what we were doing to Mother Earth.

Alice Billings

He would mow for my mother. It saddened all of us.

Bob Myers

We are of two generations. I like to work online, while my mother avoids using computers.

Martina Arfwidson

I really believe in the Freudian idea that every man wants a woman who's like his mother.

Ashton Kutcher

No matter how old we become, we can still call them "Holy Mother" and "Father" and put a child-like trust in them.

Desmond Morris

I am thrilled that Lionel's mother agreed.

Richard Rosenbaum

You can just imagine dad feeling overwhelmingly anxious -- they both got into this kind of lull and that is the hope, what you wanna do. That's, you know, the baby to feel that the father is calm, the mother is calm, there is safety there, there is security there.

Glenn Schifano

[Professionals also have taken cracks at the topic. ] Cartoonists hit the mother lode with this one, ... Giant bugs blend with images of doomsday cultists and visions of the apocalypse.

Daryl Cagle

The irony is that I was a single mother, and I raised five kids by myself and put myself through school. I bought my first house in 1999 -- that was a very big deal for me -- and now I have to sell it, only because they won't hire Americans. It's devastating.

Donna Bradley

I was horrified but Sharon just laughed. She was great, a real mother figure and a real support throughout the competition.

Cassie Compton

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease.

Lisa Alther

We're devoted to the Blessed Mother. She intercedes for us.

Richard Saunders

The neighbors heard the mother screaming for help.

Gilbert Bennett

It's very competitive. We all take bets on the time the baby will be born and if it will be a mother who is in the hospital yet.

Serena Kow

It was a girdle ? and I had to give it to my mother!

Marti Holland

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.

Della Reese

Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.

Jack Davenport

The clock didn't exist for my mother. She wanted her students to attain a higher level immediately, before she let them go.

Joel Rosenberg

My mother visited me here once, saw the Khmer Rouge style and has never come back again.

Hakpry Agnchealy

Her mother was an overwhelming force, ... Her father was emphatic and imperious.

Arthur Schlesinger

There are a lot of good football players there. His mother [Martha] and I couldn't be more proud of how hard he's worked and the commitment he's made.

Sean Sweeney

We call them the mother lode of hematite.

Phil Christensen

We don't want to cause any anguish on the part of the mother especially.

Larry Parker

His mother identified it as his shirt. (Investigators) said he was out in the woods and lost his way. I don't believe he was in the woods. I believe he was taken out there and dumped off and run over by a car to look like a hit-and-run.

Michael Holden

I lost my child. Her children lost their mother. Her father lost a daughter. Her grandmother lost a grandchild.

Marsha Jones

Patience is the mother of will.

George Gurdjieff

It's a fabulous story . . . It's got these supernatural elements as well. It's one man's fight against a man-shaped monster and against his mother who is bestial, and then against a dragon.

Andy Orchard

Other people's babies - / That's my life! / Mother to dozens, / And nobody's wife.

A. P. Herbert

They should have had acts that the young people can identify with. I'm not even feeling it. Maybe my mother is feeling it.

Carol Lewis

I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.

Ivana Trump

France, mother of arts, of warfare, and of laws.

Joachim Du Bellay

She drove right through the back of the garage. We always used to say my dad was never bored with my mother.

Bridget Idtensohn

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Ambrose Bierce

God will protect us, [my mother] often said to June and me. "But to make sure," she would add, "carry a heavy club."

Gypsy Rose Lee

I thought maybe there might be a chance to save the baby even if we can't save the mother.

Dr. Michael Akhiyat

My mother showed us love, you know. So, it's something we have to keep, until we have our own kids to pass it on to.

Raymond Palmer

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

Milton R. Sapirstein

How would you feel if you didn't know where your mother was for one day? Imagine 4 1/2 months.

Denise Herbert

My parents didn't want her (Bernice's mother) to live alone. It just seemed to be the natural place to live for all of us, and we wouldn't dream of living anywhere else.

Rhonda Madden

I've told him my mother has this incredible archive.

Tom Farley

There is a backlog right now but I don't know if it (can be blamed) on anybody else but Mother Nature.

Bill James

We spent that whole day with my mother, ... We had so much fun with her.

Victor Harris

The problem with most of them was that they were huge and tacky looking. This chair turned out to be great for Mother because she can elevate her feet without having to go to bed to do it. And it is easy for her to get in and out of.

Beth Holland

I am not entering any political arena. I am a mother who is just wanting to have my daughter home.

Susan Levy

I'd like to believe there's a little of Hitler and Napoleon in me. Even if I try, I can't be as selfless as Mahatma Gandhi and Mother Teresa.

Shahrukh Khan

I praise God for giving me a mother like mine. She is the hub of our family.

Pat Champion

I had to force my mother to leave. I sent her (there), where she drowned.

Brian Mollere

This play is not about my mother and me.

Lisa Kron

And if that is to happen, then I just pray she's adopted by a mother who loves her as much as I do.

Allyson Schaaf

I hate Mother Nature right now.

Ryan Deerossiers

In case he forgot what my mother looked like, look into my eyes now.

Richard Stoecker

Let's say you fire your brother-in-law, ... Christmas dinner comes, and here he is at the table with you. And your mother looks at you like you're the guy who's screwing up the family.

Ronald Cohen

Had to go to church. Mother made us.

Harry Kampenga

I would have been willing to do anything for my father. I would have moved in with my father to look after him if my mother had died. It's just that sort of commitment. That's just the way my family is.

Bruce Paltrow

Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, / How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee? / Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; / God who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet.

Arthur Christopher Benson

His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.

Mae West

He's a climbing fiend. He's climbing all over the rocks, or he's climbing on his mother. And when he's not climbing on her, he's chewing on her. . . . She lets him treat her like a giant chew toy.

Lisa Stevens

She just kept picking them up. Mother and babies bonding is what she needed.

Annice Statin

My mother got to read the book in print ... before she died and she was pleased with it.

Karla Reinhard

Mike came up the driveway screaming, 'My mother and father are dead, my mother and father are dead.' They weren't dead.

Drew Outhouse

He wrote home almost every day. He would always ask somebody to pray for him. ... Mother sensed something was wrong.

Dorothy Miller

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. You know where. I want to be like everyone else.

Judy Blume

I'm so happy. Mother says: She's my life. I Love you.

Lauren Brown

Once vigorous measures appear to be the only means left of bringing the Americans to a due submission to the mother country, the colonies will submit.

George Iii

I fortunately did not contract Hepatitis C, which is killing my mother-in-law, and it will kill you too.

Courtney Powles

In the eyes of its mother, every beetle is a gazelle.

Moroccan Proverb

What a great way [it was] to honor my mother and my future child's grandma.

Julie Foglesong

She was being a good mother, trying to find out how to get support for her kids.

Peter Knecht

Mother never pushed him to change, but she was really happy when he did.

Patricia Bryant

My mother was out there with a garden hose. She lives in Arlington, near the Mansfield border. She's OK, but it's representative of what's been going on all afternoon.

Anita Foster

This is a wonderful mother who has a wonderful relationship with her child.

Tony Spencer

Those babies, if they're without a mother for some reason or the mother was hit by a car, those babies just can't make it in this cold weather.

Pj Dietschel

She had a very difficult life. Her mother gave her away when she was little, and the man who took her in had sex with her and she had a daughter.

Bernardo Batiz

When we'd go to church, my mother would say, 'Ask the priest your questions.' And the priest was quite indulgent, ... Often he'd say, 'We haven't figured that out yet, my boy.' When I heard that, I was free, I was overjoyed -- I could create [my own] answers.

Neale Donald Walsch

But I never really had to scold her for any mistakes. We are players on the court, not mother and daughter. It is all in the game but we make a lot of fun about things that happen in the game.

Jacqueline Browne

The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.

Clive Barnes

It was a terrible blow to us when the hillside began to go and the house was red-tagged. At that time, we decided Mother Nature was going to have her way with that cliff.

Susan Saum

We're not angry at this girl as much as we're just shocked that our mother passed. That we lost our mom is hard enough.

Ronnique Benjamin

My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career.

Andrea Jung

This sentence is not being imposed because of the background of anyone involved. I see here a man who is sorry for what he did. I see a mother who is grieving for her son. It doesn't matter what their ethnic background is.

Judge Kenneth Biehn

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

When you say something to the mother, she wants to fist-fight you, ... I just wish something could be done.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

While the mother of the girl was asleep, he allegedly had sexual intercourse with her and had her perform oral sex on him.

Mike Frost

In the 1950s, my mother made this gown, ... It's (patterned on) a Ginger Rogers gown.

Jane Huff

Kristen is one of the victims. She is more a victim of this than most of us. She lost her mother, her father and for all real purposes, her brother.

Michael Crowley

The breast-feeding community is very upset. Basically, they are telling us to use an artificial substitute for something a mother usually does.

Katy Lebbing

Misery is when you make your bed and then your mother tells you it's the day she's changing the sheets.

Suzanne Heller

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Quentin Crisp

It's very crucial that the mother and baby spend the weekend bonding. This is our first big birth and we want to do it right.

Andrea Hill

After that he was largely excluded by the family and, the evidence suggests, rejected by his mother over the last four years of his life.

John Matthews

Mr. President, ... this is a little boy whose 24-year-old mother was a hero that day.

Jim O'connor

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, ``Get the hell off my property.''.

Joan Rivers

As a mother, you are never ready for something like this. It is hard to let that control go and you just have to be supportive. Everyone is proud of him and we all miss him here at home.

Janet Jacobs

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Albert Ellis

She is a wonderful, wonderful mother.

James Collins

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Alice Walker

She has changed my whole life after my mom passed away; she's like my mother, she is.

Gloria Gomez

I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in- law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.

Henny Youngman

My mother could hardly walk with the arthritis she had.

Barbara Cole

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

She was an excellent mother and she loved her children. They were the most important thing to her.

Sharon Hill

God came at us with a vengeance. I can't understand it. This was a mean mother, meaner than Vietnam. It came out of nowhere.

Tony Gugino

I was glad of that because I could see she was going to make a good mother the way she hugged it and fussed.

Roberta Childers

Ten days before it happened, I had a dream that my father was driving down Plymouth Street and my mother was crossing the street and he ran over her and kept going and did nothing to help her.

Sarah Garuti

I believe the information so far is good enough, ... I would let my sister, my mother, my wife ... have MammoSite.

Andrew Kennedy

She was a friend to all of us, a mother to all of us.

Jessica Brown

He has to hear that we're human beings and that our father, son, mother, whoever, were human beings.

John Shanagher

They've already lost their mother, so I don't think it's the time to give them the news that they basically lost their father today.

Shirley Rivera

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?

Trey Parker and Matt Stone

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me.

Giovanni Ribisi

We haven't been able to see them keep it. Mother Nature seems to be stronger than the will of many of the engineers.

Rob Erickson

They got it away from the mother and probably ran it until it got tired. Calves are so pretty. When you think about one getting eaten alive, it makes me so mad I can't stand it.

Bobby Dawson

The grandmother decided that on Christmas Day, she would allow the boy to be with his mother.

Jim Leljedal

I expected her to be pleased and excited. Sadly, she was no such thing. When it arrived my mother burst into tears because she didn't want that much change in her life.

Greg Dyke

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Carolyn Wells

Being a "good" mother does not call for the same qualities as being a "good" housewife. . . . a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

Ann Oakley

My mother was a wonderful woman and led a good life. She went peacefully.

Dennis Riley