Quotes about mother
mother war doors
My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door. Thomas Pynchon
mother may dear-friend
In after-life you may have friends--fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none but a mother bestows. Thomas B. Macaulay
mother philosophy leisure
Leisure can be one of the Mothers of Philosophy. Thomas Hobbes
mother school science
That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.
mother philosophy leisure
Leisure is the mother of philosophy; and commonwealth, the mother of peace and leisure.
mother philosophy philosophical
Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
mother father impact
The only engine big enough to impact Mother Nature is Father Greed. Thomas Friedman
mother daughter school
I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.
mother drama law
I once worked with Emma Thompsons mother, Phyllida Law. I worked with her on a BBC drama, and she was hilarious. I loved her so much, and she was great to work with. Thomas Brodie-Sangster
mother two wow
Raised by two mothers...wow, most of us barely survive one Woody Allen
mother believe meat
Do I believe in God? I did until Mother's accident. She fell on some meat loaf and it penetrated her spleen.
mother new-york father
I can't with any conscience argue for New York with anyone. It's like Calcutta. But I love the city in an emotional, irrational way, like loving your mother or your father even though they're a drunk or a thief. I've loved the city my whole life - to me, it's like a great woman.
mother children middle-child
My mother never had time for me. When you're the middle child in a family of five million, you don't get any attention.
mother attitude father
I've inherited the worst of each parent. I have my father's hypochondria and lack of concentration. I have his amorality. I have everything bad that he had. Then I have my mother's surly, pill-like, complaining, whining attitude.
mother depressing time
My father worked for the same firm for 12 years. They fired him and replaced him with a tiny gadget that does everything my father does, only much better. The depressing thing is my mother ran out and bought one
mother autumn night
Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see again… I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene O’Neill were laughing.
mother baby dog
When I asked my mother where babies came from, she thought I said rabies. She said you get them from being bitten by a dog. The next week, a woman on my block gave birth to triplets... I thought she'd been bitten by a Great Dane.
mother motherhood invention
Necessity, mother of invention. William Wycherley
mother growth tears
The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears. William Wordsworth
mother motherhood graves
One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.
mother children men
Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came.
mother heart babe
A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother's heart.
mother blessed sleep
Come, blessed barrier between day and day, Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!
mother dream art
Behold the Child among his new-born blisses A six years' Darling of a pigmy size! See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes! See, at his feet, some little plan or chart, Some fragment from his dream of human life, Shaped by himself with newly-learned art.
mother may invention
Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention. William Shenstone
mother brother dad
My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal. William Shatner
mother horse years
I got on a horse when I was about 12 years of age, and started galloping around. my mother came up said "where did you learn to ride a horse?" I said "this is the first time I've ever been on a horse" I just knew, I just felt the horse.
mother mean blessing
By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother. William McKinley
mother running men
When I started out in public life there used to be a saying we'd hear from time to time, that every man who runs for public office will claim that he was born in a log cabin he built with his own hands. Well, my mother knew better. And she made sure I did too. William J. Clinton
mother lying mystical-experiences
Divinity lies all around us, but society remains too hidebound to accept that fact...The mother sea and the fountain-head of all religions lies in the mystical experiences of the individual. William James
mother cheer worry
Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures. William Gilmore Simms
mother memories tired
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. Will Durant
mother race europe
India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.