Quotes about moth
mother men vanity
Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother. Robert Frost
mother children father
I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other.... It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way.... But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us. Robert Fulghum
mother father teaching
When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother's car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to the car one night at dinner, it was a major rite of passage for him and my mother. Their perception of me had changed and was formally acknowledged. For me the occasion meant a private sanction to do in public what I had already been doing in secret.
mothers-day mom women
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
mother children sometimes
Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed. Robert Bloch
mother dog boys
Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother who lets him have one Robert Benchley
mother daughter thinking
All my life I've felt like somebody's wife, or somebody's mother or somebody's daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And that's why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.
mother queens london
It is one of the most discouraging experiences I have ever had, not forgetting the time when I winked at the Queen Mother in London once.
mother father greek
My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood. Rita Wilson
mother father medicine
I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened, looking at me with that serious and penetrating gaze of his that caused me such trepidation, and asked whether I knew what I wanted to do. Rita Levi-Montalcini
mother children book
Anyone can tell you that how you're raised as a child has a great deal to do with how you behave as an adult and whether you have complexes or whether you need to prove yourself or all that kind of stuff and yet the mother in a traditional family who has raised a child never makes it in the history books. Rita Dove
mother father parent
My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
mother school lunch
My mother was the worst cook ever. In school, when we traded lunches, I had to throw in an article of clothing. Rita Rudner
mother turkeys house
I loved my mother very much, but she was not a good cook. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. In our house Thanksgiving was a time for sorrow.
mother father dollars
I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother.
mother book men
Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.
mother turkeys taste
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
mother children father
I want to have young children although my mother and father are even now young sufficient to just take care of them.
mother advice age
Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice. Rita Mae Brown
mother sorrow bills
Death is a greatly overrated experience. I hated Mother's and I'm not looking forward to my own. Apart from the sorrow there are the bills to be paid. Nobody dies for free.
mother aunt past
No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.
mother aunt feelings
Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
mother profound abandoned
When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
mother country blood
This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free. Richard V. Allen
mother daughter envy
I envy my daughter's childhood. Rene Russo
mother twins ifs
If I'm his 'twin,' we do not have the same mother. Rene Preval
mother brother littles
My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows. Renee Fleming
mothers-day mom heart
This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee! Thomas Moore
mother religious home
This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still. Thomas Paine
mother creative sides
The bigger the budget, the more you can afford to compromise with Mother Nature. The smaller the budget, the more you're like, "Okay, well, we have to do this, but how can we afford to do it." That's when you have to get really creative on the business side, as far as making compromises. Thomas Ian Nicholas
mother men wife
O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Thomas Hood
mother art moon
Mother of light! how fairly dost thou go Over those hoary crests, divinely led! Art thou that huntress of the silver bow Fabled of old? Or rather dost thou tread Those cloudy summits thence to gaze below, Like the wild chamois from her Alpine snow, Where hunters never climbed--secure from dread?
mother thinking
I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all. Samantha Morton