Quotes about mother
mother knowing people
I had learned that there were substitutes for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You could find love with other people. You could find it in places you weren't even looking. But the original wound would never heal. I would carry it with me forever, and so would Tara. That was the trick . . . accepting it, going on with your life, knowing it was part of you. Lisa Kleypas
mother doors ems
Evie ” came his faint whisper “I’m going to your mother see…she’s got ’em to leave a back door open…so I can steal into ’eaven.
mother trust-me knows
I do trust women. I have a lot of women in my life. I have a mother. I have a woman. There's a lot of women around me. And I do trust them. And they trust me, as far as I know. Johnny Depp
mother children thinking
One thing I have is that I have never been afraid to expose myself in a way, and I really think I got that from my mother. That's a great gift you can give to a child, that they have confidence in their abilities. John Turturro
mother children memories
I grew up, in my childhood, with some of the greatest women performers, on stage and on screen, and even my family - my mother and my sisters. So I was very busy watching women, as a child! I have a lot of memories of great women performers John Travolta
mother body letters
We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters. John Updike
mother different asking
In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their own sexuality, which is different but not basically different, perhaps, from our own. For women, too, there seems to be that tangle of supplication and possessiveness, that descent toward infantile undifferentiation, that omnipotent helplessness, that merger with the cosmic mother-warmth, that flushed pulse-quickened leap into overestimation, projection, general mix-up.
mother women world
The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.
mother people way
...but with his mother there's no question of liking him they're not even in a way separate people he began in her stomach and if she gave him life she can take it away and if he feels that withdrawal it will be the grave itself.
mother critics raises
My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.
mother boys
As a boy, when I was bad, my mother would chew me out in Spanish. And since I was bad a lot, I learned a lot of Spanish! John Sununu
mother school boys
As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at ten. (...)Boys like Andrew Carnegie who begged his mother not to send him to school and was well on his way to immortality and fortune at the age of thirteen, would be referred today for psychological counseling; Thomas Edison would find himself in Special Ed until his peculiar genius had been sufficiently tamed. John Taylor Gatto
mother daughter years
My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia. John Sergeant Wise
mother autumn events
THE autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.
mother qualms-about faithful
Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.
mother sweet mother-nature
Mother Nature is not sweet. John Shelby Spong
mother jesus children
Now, if Mary has an egg cell, then Jesus gets 50 percent of his genetic make up from his mother. And if his mother is a child of Adam, she, too,is fallen so Jesus is not perfect.
mother daughter son
I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters. John Ratzenberger
mother teacher father
At an early age, I knew there were a lot of things I couldn't do. My father was a doctor, and my mother was a teacher. I knew I wasn't good in numbers, and I knew I wouldn't work well in overly structured environments. John Ridley
mother daughter light
A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter. John Ray
mother children blessing
A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.
mother father men
Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad. John Ralston Saul
mother water tea
When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water. James Joyce
mother mean kissing
What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?
mother children father
I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
mother strong arrogance-of-youth
The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it. Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one. James Robertson
mother baby guarding
Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 400 pounds and is guarding her baby. James Rollins
mother brother growing-up
Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'
mothers-day mom motherhood
That best academy, a mother's knee. James Russell Lowell
mother legends
The pine is the mother of legends.
mother heart love-is
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.
mother memories mean
I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined. James Rebhorn
mother loving-life wife
Childhood is so important. Without a loving one, you're vulnerable throughout your life. We're all the things our parents are - the good and the not so good. Thankfully, I have a wonderful wife who's a brilliant mother. James Fox