Quotes about moth
mother blessed motherhood
Niobe would have been called most blessed of mothers, had she not seemed so herself. Ovid
mother father years
My parents were born in Norfolk and spent their early years working in the big houses of that rural English county, my mother as a cook and my father as a handyman and chauffeur. Paul Nurse
mother teacher school
I enjoyed school - although I ran away on the first day. I'd reminded the teacher that it was nearly time for 'Watch With Mother' on TV. Paul O'Grady
mother father crazy
I really cite Walt Disney as teaching me everything I know. It sounds crazy, but I'm serious! In 'Bambi,' the mother dies, but you don't see the corpse. You see the father, the stag, come up and you see 'Bambi' alone, and that has so much more impact than seeing a mutilated deer. Matthew Gray Gubler
mother father character
I basically drew my own family. My father's name is Homer. My mother's name is Margaret. I have a sister Lisa and another sister Maggie, so I drew all of them. I was going to name the main character Matt, but I didn't think it would go over well in a pitch meeting, so I changed the name to Bart. Matt Groening
mother attitude prayer
We receive our nourishment from the Mother Earth. So we should put our hands together in an attitude of prayer and say "please" and "thank you" when dealing with nature. Masanobu Fukuoka
mother doors balance
If we throw mother nature out the window, she comes back in the door with a pitchfork. Masanobu Fukuoka
mother wife looking-good
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. Marya Mannes
mother knows fondness
Only a mother knows a mother's fondness. Mary Wortley Montagu
mother sacrifice law
Women becoming, consequently, weakerthan they ought to behave not sufficient strength to discharge the first duty of a mother; and sacrificing to lasciviousness the parental affectioneither destroy the embryo in the womb, or cast if off when born. Nature in every thing demands respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity. Mary Wollstonecraft
mother children husband
To be a good mother, a woman must have sense, and that independence of mind which few women possess who are taught to depend entirely on their husbands. Meek wives are, in general, foolish mothers; wanting their children to love them best, and take their part, in secret, against the father, who is held up as a scarecrow. Mary Wollstonecraft
mother world needs
Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up a world where my needs wouldn´t exist at all. Marya Hornbacher
mother father past
My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out a fairly solid middle ground. I wouldn't say my relationship with either of them - they're no longer together - is exactly typical, but that would be difficult after all we went through. Marya Hornbacher
mother night knees
Then take me on your knee, mother; And listen, mother of mine. A hundred fairies danced last night, And the harpers they were nine. Mary Howitt
mother daughter jealous
When a scientist's son or daughter becomes a scientist they'll say "Wonderful! Wonderful!" So, why, in the name of God, would a mother be jealous to see her daughter become a successful writer? Mary Higgins Clark
mother spiritual children
As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life. Mary J. Blige
mother husband wicked
All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills. Martha Graham
mother memories father
Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years. Martha Graham
mother business invention
Invention is the mother of necessities. Marshall McLuhan
mother tongue propaganda
The mother tongue is propaganda. Marshall McLuhan
mother children perception
The greatest propaganda in the world is our mother tongue, that is what we learn as children, and which we learn unconsciously. That shapes our perceptions for life. That is propaganda at its most extreme form. Marshall McLuhan
mother lying good-person
I do not tell lies. Mother used to say that this was because I was a good person. But it is not because I am a good person. It is because I do not tell lie. Mark Haddon
mother nice mean
Mother used to say it meant Christopher was a nice name because it was a story about being kind and helpful, but I do not want my name to mean a story about being kind and helpful. I want my name to mean me. Mark Haddon
mother real stupid
But I don't feel sad about it. Because Mother is dead. And because Mr. Shears isn't around anymore. So I would be feeling sad about something that isn't real and doesn't exist. And that would be stupid. Mark Haddon
mother avalon ancient
I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born. Marion Zimmer Bradley
mother light giving
Light flared through every limb, a force far too great to be contained in any human frame; but for that moment she was the Great Mother, giving birth to the world. Marion Zimmer Bradley
mother children believe
I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after them. Margery Allingham
mother missing
I miss my mother very, very much. Paul Haggis
mother law safety
Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good. Paul Hawken
mother new-york men
Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis , that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years of his life into the cloistered drudgery of getting an M.D. degree, could possibly make a good psychoanalyst; so he preferred to look for young analysts among the writers, the lawyers, the mothers of families, those who had chosen human contact. But in their economic wisdom, the Psychoanalytic Institute of Vienna (and New York) overruled him. Paul Goodman
mother morning kids
When my kids were in preschool, I was part of a carpooling group. One mother sometimes showed up with bruises on her body. She always had an excuse. Then one morning, she didn't show up. Later, I learned she'd fled a violent marriage. I've always thought, If only I'd known, maybe I could have helped. Patty Murray
mother children thinking
The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother. Paul Auster
mother book writing
I woke up one day and thought: I want to write a book about the history of my body. I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began. Paul Auster