Quotes about mother
mother father tired
I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.' 'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed. William Goldman
mother wife daddy
Her mother was my wife," the Count roared, loudest of all. "You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of the world." And with a shriek of disgust he turned and was gone. Guilietta was beside Inigo then, so excited. "Daddy likes you," she said.
mother pay forget
Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)
mother home night
Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)
mother cracks want
Clearly, there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, How did this happen? Where's your mother? Are you physically ill? Mentally ill? William Baldwin
mother kissing sweetest
The mother's kiss is the sweetest thing ever. William Allingham
mother home kissing
Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this Than any other thing!
mother encouragement son
Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'. Wilferd Peterson
mother art children
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated. Wassily Kandinsky
mother art time
Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.
mother world faces
The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes - it never tires - it endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute. In the face of the world's condemnation, a mother's love still lives on. Washington Irving
mother heart son
There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart
mother animal men
It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him. Voltaire
mothers-day mom children
Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. William Feather
mother father medicine
To my father, business was the highest calling, but to my mother, medicine was the top profession. William Standish Knowles
mother children father
A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a father's decision to let it mature into a live child. William Rehnquist
mother commitment justice
I made a commitment and a promise to Ms. McSpadden, Michael Browns mother, that I will pursue justice with the family at every avenue, be it on the federal level or at the state level. William Lacy Clay, Jr.
mother years age
In the seventeenth year of my age my mother died. William Lilly
mother dad kids
My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid. William Levy
mother men hands
Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. William Lloyd Garrison
mother elephants bird
There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system. William Booth
mother light body
I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb. William Butler Yeats
mother heart hatred
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
mother heart wind
O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.
mother light worship
Both nuns and mothers worship images, But those the candles light are not as those That animate a mother's reveries, But keep a marble or a bronze repose.
mother reality moon
I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.
mother heart womb
I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.
mother vegetables mind
...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all. Wilkie Collins
mother children father
People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of embracement. Wilhelm Reich
mother milton
The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public. Walter Winchell
mother father men
Verily has man freewill to control his actions. That my Father-Mother has given to man as his inheritance. But the control of the ractions to those actions man has never had. This my Father-Mother holds inviolate. These cannot become man's except through modifying his actions until the reactions are their exact equal and opposite in equilibrium. Walter Russell
mother children
Children are what the mothers are. Walter Savage Landor
mother hope
Hope is the mother of faith.