Quotes about mother
mother-daughter caution circumspection
Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother. Franz Grillparzer
mother children father
There are two facts that all children need to disprove sooner or later; mother and father. If you go on believing in the fiction of your own parents, it is difficult to construct any narrative of your own. Jeanette Winterson
mother heart passion
St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry. She wanted to be a nun. She hoped I would be a priest and saved to give me an education while my friends plaited rope and trailed after the plough. I can't be a priest because although my heart is as loud as hers I can pretend no answering riot. I have shouted to God and the Virgin, but they have not shouted back and I'm not interested in the still small voice. Surely a god can meet passion with passion? She says he can. Then he should.
mother sex book
I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex.
mother father wealth
When I was born, my father wanted to drown me, but my mother persuaded him to let me live in disguise, to see if I could bring any wealth to the household.
mother art thinking
Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue.
mother book too-late
Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!
mother book fall
Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.
mother art thinking
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue.
mother school problem
I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Jim Clyburn
mother sorry father
I'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else. Jim Carrey
mother crazy madness
I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.
mother crazy mirrors
I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.
mother pain feel-better
I started out performing as a little boy, I was trying to make my mother feel better and laugh because she was sick and in pain all the time. I found out that I had that power to relieve her.
mother dad stage
My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
mother kids feel-better
I was that kid. I was entertaining everybody in the living room and throwing myself down flights of stairs and making the family look special and making my mother feel better and I really wanted to make people happy. That has been my ministry my whole life. I call it The Church of F.F.C. - The Church of Freedom From Concern. And I'm a high priest in that church.
mother way dresses
I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see. Jessie Ware
mother games nursery
I came across Mother Goose, so I turned her loose, she was screaming. Jethro Tull
mother laughing unanswered-questions
How can you laugh when your mother's hungry? How can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong?
mother daughter home
My wife is the boss at home, and my daughters are the bosses. I am just the worker. We are a very warm family and very happy. Jet Li
mother abortion birth
Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life. Jerry Weller
mother baby cutting
She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies, as blind puppies, as sun-starved newly hatched baby snakes. She left us a dark Gulf and salt-burned land. She left us to learn to crawl. She left us to salvage. Katrina is the mother we will remember until the next mother with large, merciless hands, committed to blood, comes. Jesmyn Ward
mother father fighting
My father and mother. I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material. Jerry Stiller
mother children kindness
Children, honor your parents in your hearts; bear them not only awe and respect, but kindness and affection: love their persons, fear to do anything that may justly provoke them; highly esteem them as the instruments under God of your being: for Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father. Jeremy Taylor
mother father men
Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.
mother cities heaven
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
mother sweet self
A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol
mother book saws
I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person. Jennifer Saunders
mother tissues scar
like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone. Jennifer Stone
mother father eye
I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.
mother daughter book
I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books. Jennifer Weiner
mother kids way
The way I see it,” she began, “your mother’s devoted her whole life to you kids.” She said “you kids” in precisely the same tone I would have used for “you infestation of cockroaches
mother heart body
This is motherhood for you,' said my own mother. 'Going through life with your heart outside your body.