Quotes about mother
mother travel father
My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey. Rutherford B. Hayes
mother two might
My only objection to the arrangements there is the two-in-a-bed system. It is bad.... But let your words and conduct be perfectlypure--such as your mother might know without bringing a blush to your cheek.... If not already mentioned, do not tell your mother of the doubling in bed.
mother wall sorry
One day when I was fourteen, I told Charlie that I hated Mother. “Don’t hate her, Jo,” he told me. “Feel sorry for her. She’s not near as smart as you. She wasn’t born with your compass, so she wanders around, bumping into all sorts of walls. That’s sad.” I understood what he meant, and it made me see Mother differently. But wasn’t there some sort of rule that said parents had to be smarter than their kids? It didn’t seem fair. Ruta Sepetys
mother men good-man
Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.
mother independent persons
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
mother children body
The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings. Ruth Bernhard
mother writing years
My mother - my stepmother, really, she herself have been what they call an elocutionist. And she was the one who first encouraged me to write poetry, because she used to read it to us. And then when I began to write when I was nine years old, my first poem was published in the Amsterdam News. I called it "The Graveyard." Ruby Dee
mother kids hard-life
Like any working mother I find it hard to have a social life. But my kids are so well adjusted. There isn't a brat bone in their body so I haven't done anything that bad. Ruby Wax
mother war eye
For too many families, the aftershock of the war in Afghanistan will be felt every day, most probably for the rest of their lives. I know because I've looked into the eyes and the faces of grieving mothers. Ross Kemp
mother baby children
When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is using drugs, and she is in crisis, usually we cannot place that baby with a heterosexual family. Almost all of the times when we have a drug-addicted child, we place the baby in a homosexual family. Rosie O'Donnell
mother kids florida
I took in a foster kid that I wanted to adopt in the state where I live, and I pay taxes, said to me, based on not your morality, not on how good you are as a mother, not on how much you've given to foster kids in Florida, based on the facts that you're in love with a woman, you can't keep her.
mother stupid father
Don't fear the terrorists. They're mothers and fathers.
mother good-mother knows
I know I'm a really good mother. I know it. I'm a really good mother.
motherhood world morality
If you didn't have any conscious beings in the world, there really wouldn't be morality but with consciousness that you have it. Roger Penrose
mother daughter coal-miners
I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit. Sam Rockwell
mother dad parent
My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
mother saws cry
One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died. Sam Taylor-Wood
mother baby sorry
Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
mother running memorable
I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl. Russ Grimm
mother men people
People need to be cautious because anything built by man can be destroyed by Mother Nature. Russel Honore
mother names views
The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock [and Lynn Margulis] puts forward a scientific view of the living Earth, which in one respect is modern, empherical, scientific, in another respect re-awakens an ancient archetype, which in fact is so clearly suggested by the very name of the hypothesis, Gaia, the Greek name for Mother Earth. Rupert Sheldrake
mother children crazy
I'm considered homophobic and crazy about these things and old fashioned. But I think that the family - father, mother, children - is fundamental to our civilisation. Rupert Murdoch
mother father responsibility
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.
mother country children
What kind of country are we, to participate in separating mothers and fathers from their children? Right now we have," and whatever the number is, "800,000 children 15 and under who've arrived in our country in the last two years, and where are their parents? We have not let them come in. And we can't deport them. Why send them back to the hellholes? Rush Limbaugh
mother children husband
Children need love and discipline. They need mothers and fathers. A welfare check is not a husband. The state is not a father.
mother milk
Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.
mother morning fun
I'd get up in the morning, get ready to go to school, and I would dread it. I hated it. My mother would have the radio on. And the guy on the radio sounded like he was having so much fun. And I knew, when his program was over, he wasn't going to go to school.
mother light boston
No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding. W. G. Sebald
mother growing-up son
I am a proud mother - that's another reason I love doing any kind of animation. When my son was growing up, if he was watching something animated and I was in it, that was way cooler to him than seeing me in a movie. Virginia Madsen
mother father native-american
I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.
mother supporter
My mother's my biggest supporter. Vinny Guadagnino
mother heart sleep
The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep. W. H. Auden
mother writing political
A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.