Wendell Berry
Related You know, it's really hard when you lose the love of your life - many days I feel lost. But I know h... CARLO DEBARTOLO I once knew a girl that meant the world to me, she was just amazing. She's that one girl in my life ... MAHMOUD EL HALLAB TYLER PERRY SARAH DESSEN ACTION BRONSON JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE JOHN GREEN I've known my best friend since I was a baby, and I don't know what I would do without her. ... JASMINE GUINNESS COLLEEN HOOVER SHERWOOD ANDERSON HENNA SOHAIL JOHN SCALZI My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In... CHANTAL AKERMAN MELISSA GILBERT NEIL GAIMAN My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the ch... MARY CALLAHAN ERDOES Although I have a lot of close female friends in my life, my number one is still my mom. Without her... SHEMAR MOORE E.L. JAMES BEVERLY L. ANDERSON Without the support of my mom, Marlene, I would not be the person I am Saturday. She has been my mai... SEAN AVERY AMY TAN When it came to her, I became an indomitable warrior. My muscles became her shield and my lungs aide... HUBERT MARTIN PIERCE BROWN MAYA ANGELOU I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a be... NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN ROBERTSON DAVIES NICHOLAS SPARKS I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for... GARY NUMAN It definitely affects your home life, but luckily my wife has been behind me 120 percent. She handle... DAN GREGG JOHN GREEN ERIN MORGENSTERN She was a feminist without knowing anything about the women's movement, ... I love that she refused ... TOVAH FELDSHUH JOHN GREEN TERRY BRADSHAW I don't know what I'm going to do without her ? she was my best and only friend. DAWN HEIDTMAN STEVEN WRIGHT You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, ... JUNOT DíAZ I've been talking to myself a lot lately. I don't know what that's about, but my mother was the same... DAN CHAON I turned my boys over to her and she promised me she would bring them home, so I made her a throw. BETTY RODDAM I suppose poets have written sonnets for a thousand years about being in love. A lot of people say, ... ROBERT BLAKE She was just very supportive, and I thank her for that. I know a lot of people think it would have b... JODI OLSON MARY BALOGH I just feel so blessed to have had the time that I had with my mother. She made it so impactful in t... KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE JODI PICOULT MARGARET ATWOOD JULIE ANNE PETERS One of the most talented, smartest people happens to be my wife, so I can get great advice from her.... DAVE GOLDBERG I know that Julia has been given to me for my spiritual growth, and this moment is perfect for us bo... KENNY LOGGINS NINA LACOUR OPRAH WINFREY MIRIAM MARGOLYES You are so much more than I bargained for,” I confessed, which gained her attention. “I knew I w... C.A. HARMS She would not have done that to my mother. She and my mom were very close. She would have never left... ANITA GATTIS I had the feeling deep in my gut that there'd been lines I should have spoken, gestures I should hav... MEGAN CREWE NAPOLEON BONAPARTE RUTH REICHL So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it al... JESSICA SORENSEN My first female lover was a Jewish woman. She was butch, but not in a swaggering macho way- she coul... LAWRENCE SCHIMEL DOROTHY ALLISON AMY TAN I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ... HARRIET WALTER MARTIN AMIS STEWART O'NAN My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, ... STANLEY HAUERWAS ALICE MUNRO AMY TAN J.J. MCAVOY I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised m... ERNEST GAINES PAUL SIMON BETH REVIS TAHEREH MAFI JOHN GREEN LAUREN BACALL PHILIP PULLMAN Looking into my heart, which is perhaps the best way of looking into other men's, I know that the Sa... R. J. CAMPBELL KAMI GARCIA ARTHUR GOLDEN ARTHUR GOLDEN CHARLES R. SWINDOLL KATIE MCGARRY RICHARD FORD [I] still had many years that I would have loved to spend with my mom...Our kids have never had the ... JULIE FOGLESONG WILL ROGERS The knuckles of his hand that had Shaw's name inked across them caught my eye. I pointed to them. JAY CROWNOVER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE JODI PICOULT ANTHONY LICCIONE I often think about her. One thing she said stayed with me, a dagger in my heart: "You know for me t... INGRID BETANCOURT I've always said that the first (NFL) check I get is going to my mother, ... I want to get her out o... JEFF WEBB Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternat... DONNY OSMOND DAVID GEST JOAN RIVERS RICHELLE MEAD That was a bad situation for me, ... I'm lucky I actually got a chance to wake up and see them and g... WILLIE PONDER I really loved my daughter, I loved her so much. I thanked God every day I had her. She was my life. ANNE AUSTIN I felt like a piece of my heart had been taken away from me, not knowing if I would ever see her aga... CARL DODD I couldn’t see her, obviously, but I knew exactly what she was doing. She’d sunk into the neares... JUS ACCARDO, TREMBLE My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too.... BIG SEAN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo... 
I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from... 
If I would make a song dedicated to any woman, it would have to be my mom because, you know, she'... 
I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ... 
She glared at him through tear-filled eyes. “You talk of your pain? You cannot even begin to under... 
And as I walked back to give Takumi’s note to the Colonel, I saw that I would never know. I would ... 
She deserves so much better than what I can give her. I don’t, however, think she deserves better ... 
I know about her, although she has never crossed my path," he said softly. "I know about her struggl... 
And one day, as she was buried deep in her thoughts, she heard a still small voice ask her
"If you c... 
I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it w... 
My whole life, my mother told me I would have SAG to fall back on. When I see a woman in her mid-40s... 
I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she... 
I turn over and lie flat on my back,staring at the ceiling. When she slept beside me, I slept well. ... 
Don’t look at me like that, I see those pink cheeks when you talk about him,” she observed. “I... 
When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outs... 
Mustang...' I rest my hand on her wrist. Despite her strength, it's frail in my hands. Frail as the ... 
love. she liberated me to life, she continued to do that. and when she was in her final sickness i w... 
I thought I was in love with Leola, by which I meant that if I could have found her in a quiet corne... 
Do you love me?' I asked her. She smiled. 'Yes.' 'Do you want me to be happy?' as I asked her this I... 
I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart," she says. "I ... 
I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good... 
If I moved back, my mother would love for me to move in because she absolutely loves her boys. 12 bo... 
My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she lov... 
After you married, Crispin, she said, my heart was broken. I will not deny it. But I did not slip in... 
she didn't need anyone. At Wheeler, even when she stood out with her pink hair and quilter army-surp... 
I didn't know I was about to be left with her idea of me; with her idea of my goodness pinned onto m... 
Cece was all I had. Without her, I’d be totally alone in the world. 
I wish I knew why she never told me any of this. Maybe she thought I wouldn't be able to handle it, ... 
I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying t... 
I think life is sweeter shared; and if anything were to happen to my partner, I would find it really... 
I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the point of madness, and I cannot continue ... 
My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it... 
My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. T... 
My grandmother. She's someone I never met, and I would've loved to have met her. She's b... 
Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schoo... 
For most of her life she just expected things would work out, that people would be kind. Now she rec... 
I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes ... 
When she reached me, she stopped and kissed my father on the cheek before taking my hand. However, w... 
She comes back to tell me she's gone. As if I didn't know that, as if I didn't know my own bed. As i... 
I’ve made her relive, over and over, the last few days,” I say softly, watching Ms. White’s bo... 
There was something about my face,she said, that she couldn't stand. Something about my eyes, the wa... 
It was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. I wanted to be the last one she loved. And I knew I... 
My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy ... 
She wondered whether there would ever come an hour in her life when she didn't think of him -- didn'... 
I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own b... 
From this experience I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to... 
From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came t... 
As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I... 
I’m still not good enough for a girl like her, but she’s back in my life and she needs someone t... 
She said that it was a mistake to have made as few superficial friends as I have done in my life, an... 
My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have come... 
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies. 
Me being an ant, at her mountain, I would have tried my best for my voice to reach her peak. But our... 
I wanted to give her a normal life. I loved her. You know, it tore my heart out. 
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ... 
She can sense things . . . Things the rest of us can't.She only knew there was a strange feel to you... 
When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though know she lies 
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard... 
An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they canno... 
All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If... 
Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy. 
The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even ... 
Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather. 
When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way y... 
I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. 
Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria... 
I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes... 