Quotes about moth
mother baby taken
Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth. Anna Friel
mother pain sleep
Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary. Anna Friel
mother two people
Two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa - not often coupled with each together, but the two people that I turn to most. Anita Dunn
mother simple two
The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa — not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point, which is, you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say, 'Why not?'; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before. Anita Dunn
mother garden childhood
I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy. Anita Diament
mother want firsts
If you want to understand any woman, you must first ask about her mother and then listen carefully. Anita Diament
mother birth pinnacle
Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers? Anita Diament
mother children gay
As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children. Anita Bryant
mother eight said
When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, 'Then there's no hope for me, Mum. Andrew Sullivan
mother attitude children
I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and that of a transgender woman who was asked to deliver a sermon at her Montana church and got a standing ovation from her congregation. The idea that Christianity is a blanket term that encompasses both of those attitudes seems ludicrous to me. Andrew Solomon
mother couple loss
I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable. Andrew Solomon
mother brother parent
My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high. Andrew Solomon
mother strong loss
I had always thought of myself as fairly tough and fairly strong and fairly able to cope with anything. And then I had a series of personal losses. My mother died. A relationship that I was in came to end, and a variety of other things went awry. Andrew Solomon
mother strong betrayal
Philip Galanes has fashioned a novel both bleak and funny about a young man's struggle to sort out his troubled love: the too-strong love for his mother, the too-weak love for his suicidal father, and the all-consuming love of anonymous sexual encounters. Pointed and acute, this story tells of the narrator's many betrayals of others and their many betrayals of him. It exists in an uncomfortable moral space where the humor of terrible things sometimes outweighs, but never obscures, their poignancy. Andrew Solomon
mother cancer years
My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do? Andrew Lo
mother sheep black
I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me. Andre Rieu
mother men innocent-man
Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live." (Page 79.) Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
mother father ignorance
Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves. Ameen Rihani
mother work-out trying
I had a mother who was very emotionally demanding, wanting to be the centre of attention. As they say in EastEnders, she thought it was all about 'er. I spent a lot of time trying to work out what was going on. Andrew Davies
mother real father
My mother was the one who totally got behind me as far as, do things and ask questions later. My father would say, "I don't care how dirty you are up there, just be funny." Because they knew me offstage. They knew I was a good guy. They knew my whole plan of becoming the most exciting comedian, visually, ever. A real rock-and-roll stand-up comic. Andrew Dice Clay
mother kings father
ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us. Ambrose Bierce
mother motherhood accountability
ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution. Ambrose Bierce
mother powerful father
I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father. Anthony Hopkins
mother father bars
Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers. Alison Bechdel
mother yeah
Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow. Alison Bechdel
mother acting world
I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater. Alicia Keys
mother emotional wonderful
I've always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional. Alicia Keys
mother crazy writing
When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that I'd be able to express myself was to write her. We would write letters back and forth for days. When I'm writing, I feel uninterrupted. I write what I'm going through and how I see it. Alicia Keys
mother dad grandparent
My parents weren't married. It wasn't like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad's mother is my nana, and I'm closer to her than almost anybody in this world. Alicia Keys
mother jobs husband
I've always valued the input of the people I love. So in the past, whenever I'd make a decision - what to wear to an event, whether to pursue a job opportunity - I'd consult those closest to me, like my mother, husband, or manager. Alicia Keys
mother fall who-i-am
I grew up around the theatre. My mother is an actress. I would fall asleep on tons of theatre chairs. It's in my blood; it's in my spirit and my fabric of who I am. Alicia Keys
mother reading actresses
My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading. Alicia Keys
mother father italian
I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African. Alicia Keys