Quotes about mother
mother writing language
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before. W. H. Auden
mother father taken
The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all -- isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth.
mother mistake drama
Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.
mother children making-love
Praise the child, and you make love to the mother. William Cobbett
mother father people
Most people marry their mother. I married my father. Wayne Gretzky
mother children memories
I've been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I've filled two journals. It's a great thing to do as a mother - you forget a lot as you go along, but reading over what you've written brings all the memories back. Tory Burch
mother challenges great-business
My biggest challenge every day is to be a great mother and a great businesswoman.
mother thinking knowing
That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because she was wearing a mink, and I thought we should be taking a taxi. She just said, 'Who cares what people think?' and I remember sitting on that bus, being utterly embarrassed, but knowing somehow that she was totally correct. Tony Wilson
mother army clothes
My biological mother made my clothes or bought my clothes from Salvation Army or Goodwill. Tonya Harding
mother hard
It is hard to tell your mother to change her life. Tony Yayo
mother father thinking
I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage. Venerable Bede
mother inspiration unexpected
The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.
mother college class
My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me. Valorie Curry
mother fate guilty
I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them. Valerie Trierweiler
mother past males
The male is just a bundle of conditioned reflexes, is incapable of a mentally free response, is tied to his early conditioning, is determined completely by his past experiences. His earliest experiences are with his mother, and he is throughout his life tied to her. It never becomes completely clear to the male that he is not part of his mother, that he is him and she is her. Valerie Solanas
mother thinking want
I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother and what she would think about what I just did. I often adjust my approach. Ursula Burns
mother self pragmatic
My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
mother impact mentor
I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
mother thinking work-out
My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
mother children growing-up
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole. Ursula K. Le Guin
mother moon men
Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.
mother baby father
There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk.
mother daughter athlete
My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes. Tyson Gay
mother thinking young
I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk. Tyra Banks
mother battle assertiveness
when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own life. Twyla Tharp
mother war teaching
My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.
mother years two-year-olds
What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.
mother children pieces
With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances.
mother children years
I began ear training when I was about six months old. My mother was a concert pianist, and she started all of her children with music before they were a year old. Then she began to see that I had a musical gift.
mother creativity creative
I've always thought my creative life began the moment my mother called me Twyla.
mother aunt feet
My face is muffled in my mother's clothing. Her rhinestones injure me. See: my feet are going. Fish flee the forefinger of my aunt. The sun streams over the geraniums. What has this to do with what I feel, with what I am. William H. Gass
mother children godliness
Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother. William Gurnall
mother attractive mice
Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother. William Golding