Quotes about mother
mother men thinking
No one expects a woman busy at her sewing to pay attention to what’s being said around her. Nevermind if a man’s mother and sister showerd them they heard everything while they stictched, he’ll still think a woman who plies her needles saves all her brains for the work. You’re a far better spy hemming sheets than if you clank with daggers. Tamora Pierce
mother tired asking-questions
Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?' 'Never. They're mother's milk to me.
mother silly warning
Sandry: "I am silly, now and then. My mother said I was, anyway." Daja: "If you know, you can stop it." Sandry: "Then you've never been silly or you'd know it just creeps up without any warning.
mother growing-up cat
The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was Cats, for my birthday. Tammy Blanchard
mother children
My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child. Tamara Mellon
mother father boston
I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but lives in Ghana. I grew up in Boston. Taiye Selasi
mother tongue wells
This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mother tongue. Tahar Ben Jelloun
mother growing-up thinking
It's interesting to talk to Bernie [Sanders] about his life and growing up, you know, growing up in an immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn. His mother died at a very early age. He was young then. And, you know, I think that experience really shaped him. Tad Devine
mother teacher children
My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back and got her high school equivalency degree at night, at Central High School in Providence, became a teacher's aide.
mother crazy denial
I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy. Tab Hunter
mother responsibility mind
My mother was Protestant, and in her mind life was more about work and obligations and responsibilities. Sylvia Kristel
mother dream children
Across the globe, regardless of nationality or financial status, there is a common dream every mother has for her children - for them to live full, healthy and productive lives. As a mother, I share that dream for my children. Sylvia Mathews Burwell
mother jobs college
I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English major. But an English major who knew shorthand would be something else again. Everybody would want her. She would be in demand among all the up-and-coming young men and she would transcribe letter after thrilling letter. The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters. Sylvia Plath
mother reality people
I need the reality of other people, work, to fulfill myself. Must never become a mere mother and housewife.
mother otherness
Mother of otherness, Eat me.
mother rose funeral
That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.
mother baby stars
I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the moon, to stare up. I want to be looking at them when they come Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots. I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces. Now they are nothing, they are not even babies. I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods. They will wonder if I was important.
mother suicide brother
The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother and brother had not been there I would have made no move to jump.
mother suicide suicidal
It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)
mother writing intelligent
Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?" My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me sweetly, like one intelligent, mature person with another. It's almost three in the afternoon." I'm writing a novel," I said. "I haven't got time to change into this and change into that.
mother art father
He is everywhere, the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All-merciful. "Thou art our father, Thou art our mother, Thou art our beloved friend, Thou art the source of all strength; give us strength. Thou art He that beareth the burdens of the universe; help me bear the little burden of this life." Thus sang the Rishis of the Vedas. And how to worship Him? Through love. "He is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life." Swami Vivekananda
mother sea calm
The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother.
mother mean idol-worship
One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots.
mother dog sight
Last of all will come self-surrender. Then we shall be able to give ourselves up to the Mother. If misery comes, welcome; if happiness comes, welcome. Then, when we come up to this love, all crooked things shall be straight. There will be the same sight for the Brahmin, the Pariah, and the dog. Until we love the universe with samesightedness, with impartial, undying love, we are missing again and again. But then all will have vanished, and we shall see in all the same infinite eternal Mother.
mother men clouds
Al Gore likes to say that mankind puts 70 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day. What he probably doesn't know is that mother nature puts 24,000 times that amount of our main greenhouse gas-water vapor-into the atmosphere every day and removes about the same amount every day. While this does not 'prove' that global warming is not man-made, it shows that weather systems have by far the greatest control over the Earth's greenhouse effect, which is dominated by water vapor and clouds. Roy Spencer
mother children memories
Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate that I chose to do acceptable things, for if I had chosen otherwise no one could have deflected me from my path. ... The Chairman of the Physics Department, looking at this record, could only say 'That A- confirms that women do not do well at laboratory work'. But I was no longer a stubborn, determined child, but rather a stubborn, determined graduate student. The hard work and subtle discrimination were of no moment. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
mother crazy father
Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions. Rosalind Wiseman
mother experts problem
As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.
mother reason my-sister
In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.
mother perfect wife
First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers ... Rosalynn Carter
mother art practice
It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art. Rosanna Arquette
mother dad saws
I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. Stephen King
mother sex cutting
The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo to perform an illegal sex act on himself. To engage in oral congress with various rodents and birds. He articulated his own proposal that all persons of Negro blood return to their native continent. He expressed his sincere belief in the position the limo driver's soul would occupy in the afterlife. He finished by saying that he believed he had met the limodriver's mother in a New Orleans house of prostitution.