Quotes about moth
mother daughter hopeless
My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless. Meg Rosoff
mother strong nice
Didn't your mother ever tell you," Rob asked, "that you're supposed to play hard to get?" I looked at his lips. I probably don't need to tell you that they're really nice lips, kind of full and strong-looking. "What," I wanted to know, "is that going to get me? Meg Cabot
mother spring olympus
When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her mother, Demeter, because Demeter was very worried that the gods of Olympus would do something terrible to her. Meg Cabot
mother anger people
My mother's psychologist says I have an overactive anger switch, but people just keep pissing me off. Meg Cabot
mother liars mean
God, what if TMZ got hold of the truth about me? What a liar I am, I mean? What kind of role model am I? I make Vanessa Hudgens look like Mother Freaking Teresa. Minus the whole nudity thing. Because I'm not about to take naked photos of myself and send them to my boyfriend. Meg Cabot
mother niece taken
No offense, but if you want to be with my niece, you should think about getting a haircut. My mother is very conservative.” “No offense taken,” John said mildly. Meg Cabot
mother hair long
Did you see him? I know the photo was grainy, but he looks like one of those death metal goth heads, or whatever they’re called. All dressed in black with long hair I took umbrage at my mother describing my boyfriend this way. John was the Lord of the Underworld. How else was he supposed to dress? Meg Cabot
mother real games
Tell me what game Steph Landry and I used to play in the big dirt pile they made while they were digging my family’s pool, back when we were both seven, or I’ll know you’re an alien replacement and you’ve got the real Steph up in your mother ship!” I glared at him. “G.I. Joe meets Spelunker Barbie,” I said. “And stop being so ridiculous. We have to go. We’re going to end up at a bad table for lunch. Meg Cabot
mother abortion march
I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion. Maxine Waters
mother justice childhood
Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies? Maxine Hong Kingston
mother said
You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.' Maxine Hong Kingston
mother phenomenal-woman grandmother
I am a woman phenomenally, phenomenal woman that is your grandmother, that is your mother, that is your sister, that is you and that is me. Maya Angelou
mothers-day mom mother-daughter
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow. Maya Angelou
mother self needs
I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother. Maya Angelou
mother son world
If I have a monument in this world, it is my son. Maya Angelou
mother children husband
There's a place in you that you must keep inviolate. You must keep it pristine. Clean. So that nobody has a right to curse you or treat you badly. Nobody. No mother, father, no wife, no husband, no-nobody. You have to have a place where you say: 'Stop it. Back up. Don't you know I'm a child of God? Maya Angelou
mother teacher educational
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. Maya Angelou
mother thinking musical
I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor Max von Sydow
mothers-day mom baby
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children. Maxim Gorky
mother wife dating
No one knew me until I met my wife Lulu. Lulu's mother used to ask, Which one is Maurice? For six months she thought Lulu was dating Barry. Maurice Gibb
mother america fields
I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch. Matthew Rhys
mother believe believe-in-you
Your mother is risking a lot, because she believes in you. Matthew Quick
mother men maps
Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive. Marina Warner
mother father wedding-anniversary
My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other. Marina Abramovic
mother sleep night
I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed. Marina Abramovic
mother father secret
Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father. Marilyn vos Savant
mother mean law
Just because you're unemployed doesn't mean you're not doing anything useful. You are, for example, at least keeping your mother-in-law's wit sharp. Marilyn vos Savant
mother distance thinking
The difference between America and England is that the English think 100 miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time. The difference between an autobiography and an unauthorized biography is like the difference between an account of your life written by your mother and one written by your mother-in-law. Marilyn vos Savant
mother time children
The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory - there will be a garden where all of us as one child will sleep in our mother Eve, hooped in her ribs and staved by her spine. Marilynne Robinson
mother expectations waiting
When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain. Marilynne Robinson
mother common-experience matter
Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too fast, and forget us, they are so lost in thoughts of their own, and soon or late they disappear. The only mystery is that we expect it to be otherwise. Marilynne Robinson
mother spiritual children
Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man. Maria Montessori
mother children father
This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in a common aim, attracting them as to a single centre. Mothers, fathers, politicians: all must combine in their respect and help for this delicate work of formation, which the little child carries on in the depth of a profound psychological mystery, under the tutelage of an inner guide. This is the bright new hope for mankind. Maria Montessori