Quotes about mother
mother blow doors
My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door. Mem Fox
mother difficult please
My mother was a very difficult woman to please. She was the sort of woman who thought that if I were praised I would get above myself.
mother years alzheimers
I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being there for her every need for three years might have looked codependent but it wasn't because it was what I wanted to do. Melody Beattie
mother hands finding-yourself
The world's worst is when you find yourself going like Mother Hubbard and cupping your hand behind your ear. I was a major glutton for volume: 'Gotta feel it, gotta hear it.' Sooner or later you're going to pay the reaper. Mick Fleetwood
mother thinking space
What I do for living, working on something called string theory which we think may answer the fundamental question: Are there other universes? Can you go through a black hole? Can you warp the fabric of space and time and meet your mother before you were born? These are all questions that in principle string theory should be able to answer. Michio Kaku
mother children simple
"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and embarrassed the finest theologians, precipitating some of the thorniest theological debates over the centuries. All the great religions have elaborate mythologies surrounding the divine act of Creation, but none of them adequately confronts the logical paradoxes inherent in the question that even children ask.
mother father home
My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life. Michel Legrand
mother book angel
The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the name of one book alone; hatred of sexuality, women,and pleasure; hatred of feminine; hatred of body, of desires, of drives. Instead Judaism, Christianity, and Islam extol faith and belief, obedience and submission, taste for death and longing for the beyond, the asexual angel and chastity, virginity and monogamous love, wife and mother, soul and spirit. In other words, life crucified and nothingness exalted. Michel Onfray
mother daughter husband
I love to read about healthy eating and preach to my husband, who doesn't listen. Now I'm trying to teach it to my daughters. Martina McBride
mother adults kind
I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be. Martha Wainwright
mother thinking alive
I think my mother was always worried about me when she was alive.
motherhood track trying
It can often happen that motherhood can really stop a lot of women in their tracks and I wanted to try and keep working through that as much as I could.
mother
I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that. Martha Plimpton
mother new-york downtown
My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.
mother animal pet
As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother. Martha Stewart
mother inspiration looks
I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.
mother communication technology
I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears. Mark Potok
mother made hated
My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible. Mark Ronson
mother wind careers
And my mother caught wind of this. She never had really tried to guide my career or really had any say in my life as an adult, but this was the one time she said she would never speak to me again if I quit acting. Mark Ruffalo
mother daughter teenage
I'm doing 'I Hate My Teenage Daughter' with Katie Finneran and Jaime Pressly. Mark Consuelos
mother eye dark
When I look in the mirror, I see my late mother: I have her nose, her dark eyes - I call them chocolate eyes - I have her colouring, and my hair is greying the same way, although I use colour and she didn't. Marie Osmond
mother strong-women hero
My mother has always been my role model, and I believe my survival in the entertainment business is in large part due to my desire to be a strong woman like my mother. She is my hero.
mother baby taken
So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves.
mother body lessons
I learned a great lesson from my mother on her deathbed. She counseled me on the importance of taking care of myself so I wouldn't end up in an unhealthy body like she did.
mother taught example
My mother never asked me to do anything she wouldn't do herself. She always taught by example.
mother brother gun
I'm telling you that you got your facts wrong. I didn't kill your brother. But you killed my mother. You might as well have held the gun to her head! Marie Lu
mother humble thinking
My mother used to hope that I would rise up from my humble roots. Become someone sucessful, or even famous. I'm famous all right, but I don't think it's what she had in mind.
mother son beloved
Remember that every son had a mother whose beloved son he was, and every woman had a mother whose beloved son she wasn't. Marge Piercy
mother memories moving
Memory in Greek mythology is the mother of the muses, and it is so for me. Both personal and societal memory move me strongly, and that is one of the sources of my writing.
mother memories husband
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.
mother remember quarrels
I don't even remember what Mother and I quarreled about: it is a continual quarrel that began when I reached puberty.
mother wooing
With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.
mother children father
Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we curse and then pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can with eyes and hands and tongue. If you can't bless it, get ready to make it new.