Quotes about moth
mother inspiration unexpected
The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me. Venerable Bede
mother college class
My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me. Valorie Curry
mother fate guilty
I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them. Valerie Trierweiler
mother past males
The male is just a bundle of conditioned reflexes, is incapable of a mentally free response, is tied to his early conditioning, is determined completely by his past experiences. His earliest experiences are with his mother, and he is throughout his life tied to her. It never becomes completely clear to the male that he is not part of his mother, that he is him and she is her. Valerie Solanas
mother thinking want
I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach. Ursula Burns
mother self pragmatic
My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person. Ursula Burns
mother impact mentor
I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother. Ursula Burns
mother thinking work-out
My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us. Ursula Burns
mother children growing-up
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole. Ursula K. Le Guin
mother moon men
Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free. Ursula K. Le Guin
mother baby father
There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk. Ursula K. Le Guin
mother daughter athlete
My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes. Tyson Gay
mother thinking young
I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk. Tyra Banks
mother battle assertiveness
when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life. Twyla Tharp
mother war teaching
My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching. Twyla Tharp
mother years two-year-olds
What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement. Twyla Tharp
mother children pieces
With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances. Twyla Tharp
mother children years
I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift. Twyla Tharp
mother creativity creative
I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla. Twyla Tharp
mother aunt feet
My face is muffled in my mother's clothing. Her rhinestones injure me. See: my feet are going. Fish flee the forefinger of my aunt. The sun streams over the geraniums. What has this to do with what I feel, with what I am. William H. Gass
mother children godliness
Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother. William Gurnall
mother attractive mice
Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother. William Golding
mother father tired
I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.' 'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed. William Goldman
mother wife daddy
Her mother was my wife," the Count roared, loudest of all. "You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of the world." And with a shriek of disgust he turned and was gone. Guilietta was beside Inigo then, so excited. "Daddy likes you," she said. William Goldman
mother pay forget
Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.) William Goldman
mother home night
Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.) William Goldman
mother cracks want
Clearly, there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, How did this happen? Where's your mother? Are you physically ill? Mentally ill? William Baldwin
mother kissing sweetest
The mother's kiss is the sweetest thing ever. William Allingham
mother home kissing
Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this Than any other thing! William Allingham
mother encouragement son
Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'. Wilferd Peterson
mother art children
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated. Wassily Kandinsky
mother art time
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions. Wassily Kandinsky
mother children doe
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life. W. Somerset Maugham