Quotes about moth
mother children thinking
Mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise James Blunt
mother ignorance worship
Many infidels have maintained that Ignorance is the mother of Devotion. James Boswell
mother jobs husband
My father said it himself in an interview many years ago: 'Husband and wife failed, but mother and father didn't.' I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job. Jakob Dylan
mother brother distinguished
What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became a woman, I seemed to repel her. Jamaica Kincaid
mother echoes feels
I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone. Jamaica Kincaid
mother shadow rooms
The shadow of my mother danced around the room to a tune that my own shadow sang. Jamaica Kincaid
mother wall eye
Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world. Jamaica Kincaid
mother daughter father
Like father like son, like mother like daughter! Jamaica Kincaid
mother book mad
I've written a book about my mother, and I don't remember anyone going to Antigua or calling up my mother and verifying her life. There is something about this book that drives people mad with the autobiographical question. Jamaica Kincaid
mother reading eden
At the time I was taught to read, it was an Eden-like time of my life. My mother adored me. Everyone adored me. So I associate reading with enormous pleasure. Jamaica Kincaid
mother gay death-sentence
My mother thought me being gay was a death sentence. Jai Rodriguez
mother art honor
I really try and work very closely with the designers to be as consistent as possible to their vision and for their look because I know how intricate and how much time it takes for them to make it. My mother was a seamstress and I really honor the art of each piece that's made and so for me it's all about that. Jaime King
mother law car
A car is like a mother-in-law - if you let it, it will rule your life. Jaime Lerner
mother creativity gestation
In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation. Jacques Barzun
mother simple tongue
Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for. Jacques Barzun
mother running men
I just remember lot of men running around in little tiny gold shorts! The format - it was kind of hard. You really have to know about pop culture and I'm not really knowledgeable about a lot of those things. I know what I like. They'd ask about Gwyneth Paltrow, and I don't know anything about her, except her mother. I know who her mother is. So you really have to be current and relevant. Jackee Harry
mother facts problem
I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman. Jacki Weaver
mother giving birth
I love Downton Abbey. It's just great. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending. Jack Whitehall
mother school grandparent
My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents. Jack White
mother children special
My mother's the youngest of 10 children too, so we have sort of a special bond in that we know what that feels like. It's a strange spot to be in. Jack White
mother father moving
Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. James Gandolfini
mother stupid journey
This is gonna sound stupid, but I saw at one point that our mothers are ... bus drivers. No, they are the bus. See, they're the vehicle that gets us here. They drop us off and go on their way. They continue on their journey. And the problem is that we keep tryin' to get back on the bus, instead of just lettin' it go. James Gandolfini
mother giving way
My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith. J. R. R. Tolkien
mother taken writing
I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a green great dragon', but had to say 'a great green dragon'. I wondered why, and still do. The fact that I remember this is possibly significant, as I do not think I ever tried to write a story again for many years, and was taken up with language. J. R. R. Tolkien
mother brother body
Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother. J. R. R. Tolkien
mother children crazy
Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy. J. A. Jance
mother daughter lucky
I'm so lucky to be in a situation that I can always have my daughter with me. Izabella Scorupco
mother daughter son
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. Izaak Walton
mother daughter cancer
In 2002, my daughter was diagnosed with a rare form of colon cancer. And it was such a shock, a surprise to us. Iyanla Vanzant
mother support roles
My purpose is to teach and demonstrate what is possible. To demonstrate love of God and good. Remember what my role is as a woman: to be... good. My role as a mother: to teach, support and nurture my offspring. My role as a grandmother: to remind everybody - right where you are, God is. Iyanla Vanzant
mother children father
I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and search for the truth. In our home and in many other homes the eternal questions were more actual than the latest news in the Yiddish newspaper. In spite of all the disenchantments and all my skepticism I believe that the nations can learn much from those Jews, their way of thinking, their way of bringing up children, their finding happiness where others see nothing but misery and humiliation. Isaac Bashevis Singer
mother independent hard-work
That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother [Marie Curie] has told us always, but never that science was the only career worth following.
mother piano mirrors
My mother always wanted to be in show business, but her parents discouraged her. So when I started performing for the mirror she enrolled me in dancing, singing and piano lessons. Irene Cara