Quotes about moth
mother philosophy mean
To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, first-hand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses. Leonardo da Vinci
mother nature animal
Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.
mother art children
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.
mother children men
This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and in what stage it dwells there, and the manner of its quickening and feeding, and its growth, and what interval there is between one stage of growth and another, and what thing drives it forth from the body of the mother, and for what reason it sometimes emerges from the belly of its mother before the due time.
mother science errors
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
mother men tragedy
Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy. Oscar Wilde
mother blue danger
My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger! Paul Prudhomme
mother children years
The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children Paul R. Ehrlich
mother father kids
Younger kids, they understand that things aren't so perfect with their father or with their mother. Paul Reiser
mother daughter two
I just have two daughters and a grandson. So not a big family. Patrick Modiano
mother daughter winning
On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.
mother world green
The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us. Patrick Ness
mother let-her-go
Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.
mother children moving
Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be. Patrick Rothfuss
mother rights parent
Things are very rudimentary as far as women's rights really go here, and it seems fine, but once you start scraping the surface, you start to see the ripple effect of how not having equal rights is so detrimental and how many mothers are single parents trying to raise their families. Patricia Arquette
mother daughter cousin
In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends. Padma Lakshmi
mother cancer thinking
I agree with cosmetic surgery for medical reasons - my mother had breast cancer and I think it's very sad when somebody has no choice in what happens to their body. Paloma Faith
mother daughter nursing
I'm eating a lot of organic proteins and vegetables! Maintaining a healthy, balanced diet is my No. 1 priority because I'm nursing my daughter. Lily Aldridge
mother role-models people
I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models. Lily Allen
mother stuff way
My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff. Lily Collins
mother years five
My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much. Lillian Hellman
mother father way
Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.
mother father school
I attended Sunday School and then church with my father and mother throughout my childhood. Leverett Saltonstall
mother son men
As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me. Letty Cottin Pogrebin
mother children father
Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.
mother jobs children
The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her "job" is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a refutation of the mother's indispensability, and she may unconsciously sabotage their growth as a result.
mother father women
The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.
mother children firsts
Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.
mother dimples way
I feel about mothers the way I feel about dimples: because I do not have one myself, I notice everyone who does.
mother thinking facts
Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian. Lev Grossman
mother art school
My parents, and especially my mother, encouraged by the director of the local school which I was attending, wanted in spite of everything to send me to a National School of Arts and Crafts so that I could later become an engineer. Leon Jouhaux
mother nice dykes
My mother said to me, 'Why do you have to call yourself a dyke? Why can't you be a nice lesbian?' 'Because I'm not a nice lesbian, I'm a big dyke.' Lea DeLaria
mother teenager being-real
As a mother, anyone who has a teenager can attest to being really excited when they have something positive to be putting their energy into. They have so much energy, and it can go in the wrong direction. Lea Thompson