Quotes about moth
mother pain children
...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain. Victor Hugo
mother growing-up believe
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
mother dream nature
Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
mother daughter son
Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
mother revolution events
Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
mother strong self
Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
mother children two
The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
mothers-day mom mother-daughter
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
mother sweet children
Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
mother father disease
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it. Victor Borge
mother piano play
I learned to play the piano on my mother's knee - that was before we got a piano.
mother school president
My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended. Vernon Jordan
mother love-you light
She walks away, and I am too stunned to follow her. At the end of the hallways she turns and says, "Have a piece of cake for me, all right? The chocolate. It's delicious." She smiles a strange, twisted smile, and adds," I love you, you know." And then she's gone. I stand alone in the blue light coming from the lamp above me, and I understand: She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallways. She knows about the initiation process. My mother was a dauntless. Veronica Roth
mother spring home
When i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few minutes. My mother was the one who taught me to steal moments like those, moments of freedom, though she didn't now it. I watched her... But I learned something else from watching her too, which is that the free moments always have to end.
mother running eye
Beatrice," she says. "Beatrice, we have to run." She pulls my arm across her shoulders and hauls me to my feet. She is dressed like my mother and she looks like my mother, but she is holding a gun, and the determined look in her eyes is unfamiliar to me.
mother selfish fighting
I wasn't good enough for abnegation," I say, "and I wanted to be free. So I chose Dauntless." "Why weren't you good enough?" "Because I was selfish." I say. "You were selfish? You aren't anymore?" "Of course I am. My mother said that everyone is selfish," I say, "but I became less selfish in Dauntless. I discovered there were people I would fight for. Die for, even.
mother suicide brave
Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.
mother done like-her
Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.
mother baby thinking
I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to give me to God. It has been a long time since I thought about God, but I think about him now. It is only natural. I am glad, suddenly, that I shot Eric in the foot instead of the head.
mother pain father
I guess I always knew there was something wrong with me, but I thought it was because of my father, or my mother, and the pain they bequeathed to me like a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation. - Tobias Eaton
mother school fire
But that wasn´t the first time I ever saw her. I saw her in the hallways at school, and at my mother’s false funeral, and walking the sidewalks in the Abnegation sector. I saw her, but I didn’t see her; no one saw her the way she truly was until she jumped. I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
mother hair brave
feel Tobias brushing my hair back before the first simulation. I hear him telling me to be brave. I hear my mother telling me to be brave(...) I am brave.
mother children father
You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are. Richard Bach
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