Quotes about mother
mother thinking perfection
Repetition is the mother of perfection. If there is true perfection, it's about doing something over and over again. I truly think that if somebody does a recipe they've never done before and gets it right, they're probably more lucky than they are talented. Thomas Keller
mother maids dies
Yet I would not die a maid, because I had a mother, As I was by one brought forth, I would bring forth another. Thomas Campion
mother children our-world
Throughout our world the cry of the poor so often goes unheard. The prophets harangued Israel and Judah unceasingly about the powerless and marginalized, the overlooked widows, orphans, and "sojourners in our midst," who are still with us today as single mothers, hungry children, and helpless immigrants, wraiths invisible in our prosperous societies. Thomas Cahill
mother baby wells
Mothers can get weaned as well as babies. Thomas Chandler Haliburton
mother lying heart
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases. Thomas Brooks
mother spring saint
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.
mother people perception
Mother Angelica is proof that we are not limited by other's perceptions, and that God sometimes calls the most unlikely people to great things. Raymond Arroyo
mother father want
Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution. Viktor Yushchenko
mother book car
My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you. Vin Diesel
mother believe thinking
My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her. Victoria Wood
mother years seven
My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage. Vidal Sassoon
mother father home
I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
mother winning
You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
mother father holes
During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
mother would-be premonition
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
mother government feminist
If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government? Victoria Woodhull
mother daughter women
No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter....
mother children rights
The rights of children as individuals begin while yet they remain the foetus...Whoever has read the 'Weekly' knows I hold abortion (except to save the life of the mother) to be just as much murder as the killing of a person after birth is murder.
mother prayer
God hears a mother's prayer. Victoria Gotti
mother thinking careers
I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother. Victoria Beckham
mother daughter want
I definitely want to teach my daughter Spanish. Victor Cruz
mother new-york moving
My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York. Victor Garber
mother children eye
The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood. Victor Hugo
mother pain children
...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.
mother growing-up believe
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
mother dream nature
Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.
mother daughter son
Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger.
mother revolution events
Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution
mother strong self
Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
mother children two
The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.
mothers-day mom mother-daughter
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
mother sweet children
Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein.
mother father disease
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it. Victor Borge