Quotes about moth
mother baby children
Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go. L. Ron Hubbard
mother roots charity
Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues. Thomas Aquinas
mother justice mercy
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty. Thomas Aquinas
mother artist wings
If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers. Thom Yorke
mother names born
When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke
mother santa santa-claus
I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9. Thom Yorke
mother house want
I actually saw the loch ness monster when I was 9. She was big as a house. Want to know who the loch ness monster is? It's your obese mother. Burn mother****er Thom Yorke
mother eye
My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye. Thom Yorke
mother daughter responsibility
You don't think about it at the time, but there are certain responsibilities that come with being the vicar's daughter. You're supposed to behave in a particular way. I shouldn't say it, but I probably was Goody Two Shoes. Theresa May
mother religious queens
She is more Mother than Queen. Therese of Lisieux
mother religious joy
What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear? Therese of Lisieux
mother religious jesus
In that first 'fusion' with Jesus (holy communion), it was my Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it was she herself who placed her Jesus into my soul. Therese of Lisieux
mother religious trials
In trial or difficulty I have recourse to Mother Mary, whose glance alone is enough to dissipate every fear. Therese of Lisieux
mother kids santa
I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me. Terry Zwigoff
motherhood stronger vulnerable
Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you. Tess Gerritsen
mother creative leaving
I would say I am at peace with the mystery of my mother's journals. Of course, I will always wonder, but isn't that the creative tension of living with uncertainty? By leaving me her empty journals, my mother has made herself very present. Terry Tempest Williams
mother cancer inward
I was extremely close with my mother and my grandmothers, we shared our lives - fully, honestly - and it was heightened as each succumbed to cancer. Little was hidden between us. No time. And what was hidden, turned inward. I made a vow to speak. Speak or die. Terry Tempest Williams
mother daughter opportunity
A mother and daughter are an edge. Edges are ecotones, transitional zones, places of danger or opportunity. House-dwelling tension. When I stand on the edge of the land and sea, I feel this tension, this fluid line of transition. High tide. Low tide. It is the sea's reach and retreat that reminds me we have been human for only a very short time. Terry Tempest Williams
mother path would-be
When I said, "I am my mother, but I'm not," I was saying my path would be my own. Terry Tempest Williams
mother capacity-to-love rivers
I am slowly, painfully discovering that my refuge is not found in my mother, my grandmother, of even the birds of Bear River. My refuge exists in my capacity to love. If I can learn to love death then I can begin to find refuge in change. Terry Tempest Williams
mother thinking whales
John Lilly suggests whales are a culture maintained by oral traditions. Stories. The experience of an individual whale is valuable to the survival of its community. I think of my family stories-Mother's in particular-how much I need them now, how much I will need them later. It has been said when an individual dies, whole worlds die with them. The same could be said of each passing whale. Terry Tempest Williams
mother cancer rivers
I can tell that in Refuge the question that was burning in me was, how do we find refuge in change? Everything around me that was familiar had been turned inside out with my mother's diagnosis of ovarian cancer and with the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge being flooded. Terry Tempest Williams
mother thinking government
Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn't trust "Mothers of Borogravia!" and that was from the government. And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it... Terry Pratchett
mother children home
You can't make people happy by law. If you said to a bunch of average people two hundred years ago "Would you be happy in a world where medical care is widely available, houses are clean, the world's music and sights and foods can be brought into your home at small cost, travelling even 100 miles is easy, childbirth is generally not fatal to mother or child, you don't have to die of dental abcesses and you don't have to do what the squire tells you" they'd think you were talking about the New Jerusalem and say 'yes'. Terry Pratchett
mother horse men
I know it’s not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!" "My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow…" "Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig! Terry Pratchett
mother writing trying
I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you never knew your mother because she ran away before you were born. Distinctly remember writing it down in my diary. Would you like another try?' 'Permission to go and find my mother?' Terry Pratchett
mother country hero
Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't. Terry Pratchett
mother years two
I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Terry Pratchett
mother self differences
An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American humor, some of it comes out of playing the dozens in which you insult the other person or insult the other person's mother, and so much of Jewish humor is like, you're insulting yourself. It's totally self-deprecating. Terry Gross
mother father book
So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left. Terry Gross
mother dad kids
"The Prince Of Tides" is a lot about my mother - what my mother would do after Dad would hit one of the kids or hit two of the kids, hit all the kids, hit her, she would usually get in the car. We'd drive out. She would say, I'm going to divorce him. I'm never going back. Terry Gross
mother children class
I was in an adolescent psychology class at Citadel when the guy said, if you had a mother who was beaten, there's a great chance you'll beat your wife. And if you were beaten as a child, there's a terrific chance you're going to be a child-beater. Terry Gross
mother daughter son
I'm really interested in, who's booked the guests, who's decided to have Lena Dunham and to have the mothers of sons who were shot - sons and daughters who were shot by the police and, you know, the other performers, Paul Simon and Alicia Keys. Terry Gross