LeBron James

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?

American Basketball Player

Denzel Washington

When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.

American Actor

Dakota Fanning

My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

American Actress

Madonna Ciccone

I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life, and I think most people feel that way.

American Musician

Sidney Poitier

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

Shakira

I came to understand that I'm never going to be the perfect mother, but I'm going to do the best I can. Same goes for everything in my life.

Musician

Eartha Kitt

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

Diego Maradona

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.

Argentinian Athlete

Alicia Keys

My mom always said, 'Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you.

Benjamin Disraeli

British Statesman

Refers to the unique emotional bond shared with the child.

Maternal Connection

In many cultures, mothers are highly respected and honored.

Cultural Reverence

Adoptive motherhood emphasizes the choice and commitment in parenting.

Adoptive Nuance

Adoption legally recognizes the woman as the child's mother.

Legal Recognition

Being like a mother can mean providing emotional care and support.

Emotional Support

The role focuses on nurturing, regardless of biological ties.

Nurturing Role

Refers to the female animal's role in caring for offspring.

Animal Parenting

Highlights the instinctive behavior to nurture young.

Natural Instinct

A woman who guides or inspires without any familial connection.

Inspirational Figure

Emphasizes role over biological relationship.

Beyond Biology

In technology, it refers to the critical and central component.

Tech Core

Motherboard is often shortened to 'mother' in casual tech talk.

Informal Tech Term

In technology, 'mother' lacks gender or personal characteristics.

Not Personified

Used metaphorically to signify the origin of ideas or things.

Origin Concept

Often used to highlight the creation or starting point.

Figurative Usage

To offer care or protection extensively, not necessarily as a parent.

Metaphoric Care

The verb form stresses a caring or nurturing interaction.

Amicable Connection

 that the amount of nurturing a mother rat provides its newborn baby plays a part in determining how that baby responds to stress later in life. The pups of nurturing moms turned out less sensitive to stress because their brains developed more cortisol receptors, which stick to cortisol and dampen the stress response.

How stress affects your...

 The answer begins with pregnancy. During this process, the body's resources are cleverly used to shape a suitable environment for a fetus, creating an internal haven for a mother to nurture her growing child. In this respect, pregnancy is awe-inspiring, but that's only half the story.

Why do women have...

 Sometimes, she's just one of three babies her mother is caring for. A female kangaroo can often simultaneously support one inside her uterus and another in her pouch. In unfavorable conditions, female kangaroos can pause their pregnancies.

The three different ways...

 which transfers nutrients from mother to fetus. The test starts when urine is applied to the exposed end of the strip. As the fluid travels up the absorbent fibers, it will cross three separate zones, each with an important task.

How do pregnancy tests...

 process as edwin knows only too well they saw the mothers being killed they saw their families being separated from them and since elephants were a very strong memory they will remember that for the rest of the life

Feeding Baby Orphaned...

 my mother was a very glamorous poet and an artist and they were always very interesting people around he was a bohemian world she loved entertaining and there would be raucous parties on weeknights I would

How to deal with...

 are laid one per bear the mothers won't root it though the father will and one of the most precarious parts of the whole process is the handover too many seconds on the ice and the egg will freeze

Penguins Huddle To Keep...

 physicality of this loss more deeply. I don't even talk about my mom really with my close friends. I put the wall up and I'm like, yeah I'm doing great. Doo-doo-doo, let's keep going.

Surf Sisters - Ep. 2 PIPE...

 By removing one cub at birth and then switching them throughout the day and night, keepers are able to encourage panda mothers to feed both siblings,

Panda Doesn't Realise...

 and hand them over back to their families and mothers. I knew that we needed global policies. We organized the worldwide marches against child labor