Quotes about moth
mother twilight swans
My mother is part albino." Bella Swan Stephenie Meyer
mother jobs growing-up
The irresponsible mother helped explain bella's maturity. She'd had to grow up early, to become the caretaker. That's why she didn't like being cared for- she felt it was her job.
mother self-esteem father
Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy Stephen Chbosky
mother children kids
A mother needs to be in the home even when the kids aren’t. A messy house sends a coded message to children: “I’m not loveable. Otherwise Mother would dust. Stephen Colbert
mother ballet
My mother danced; she loved the ballet. Stefanie Powers
mother would-be being-the-best
I don't like the word 'businesswoman.' Perhaps 'committed mother' would be the best description. Steffi Graf
mother husband son
Man is potentially a son, and woman is potentially a mother; woman depends on the dependence of man. The spinster, if pathetic at all, is pathetic because she has no one to look after, not because there is no one to look after her. Bear in mind that the conventional spinster keeps a canaary as a substitute for a husband. Stella Benson
mother song mean
Even though I loved the song [My Yiddish Momme] and it was a sensational hit every time I sang it, I was always careful to use it only when I knew the majority of the house would understand Yiddish. However, you didn't have to be a Jew to be moved by 'My Yiddish Momme.' 'Mother' in any language means the same thing. Sophie Tucker
mother extraordinary-person people
I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor. Sonia Sotomayor
mother income complaining
I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it's not modest at all. I have no right to complain.
mother father thinking
An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.
mother achievement challenges
The challenges I have faced—among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother—are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.
mother voice tears
There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears. Sophie Kinsella
mother wife personality
Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.
mother war doors
My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door. Thomas Pynchon
mother may dear-friend
In after-life you may have friends--fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none but a mother bestows. Thomas B. Macaulay
mother philosophy leisure
Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy. Thomas Hobbes
mother school science
That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.
mother philosophy leisure
Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.
mother philosophy philosophical
Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
mother father impact
The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed. Thomas Friedman
mother daughter school
I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.
mother drama law
I once worked with Emma Thompsons mother, Phyllida Law. I worked with her on a BBC drama, and she was hilarious. I loved her so much, and she was great to work with. Thomas Brodie-Sangster
mother two wow
Raised by two mothers...wow, most of us barely survive one Woody Allen
mother believe meat
Do I believe in God? I did until Mother's accident. She fell on some meat loaf and it penetrated her spleen.
mother new-york father
I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life - to me, it's like a great woman.
mother children middle-child
My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention.
mother attitude father
I've inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father's hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have everything bad that he had. Then I have my mother's surly, pill-like, complaining, whining attitude.
mother depressing time
My father worked for the same firm for 12 years. They fired him and replaced him with a tiny gadget that does everything my father does, only much better. The depressing thing is my mother ran out and bought one
mother autumn night
Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see again… I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene O’Neill were laughing.
mother baby dog
When I asked my mother where babies came from, she thought I said rabies. She said you get them from being bitten by a dog. The next week, a woman on my block gave birth to triplets... I thought she'd been bitten by a Great Dane.
mother motherhood invention
Necessity, mother of invention. William Wycherley
mother growth tears
The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. William Wordsworth