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My mother was a very elegant woman. When a flying saucer landed on the lawn, she turned it over to see if it was Wedgwood.
it is a little considered fact that simply in the process of becoming a mother, one does not automatically become a saint.
Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.
Growing up with three brothers and three sisters, I was the storyteller of the family... what my mother called 'The Liar.'
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
The mother is the one who is going to help you in the long run! You must make her your friend. It matters what she thinks.
As a mother, I always have something better to be doing. I love work still, but I'm less tolerant of my time being wasted.
My mother is so full of joy and life. I am her child. And that is better than being the child of anyone else in the world.
My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
I was always very curious about other people. I would always stare and my mother would say - just please close your mouth!
O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.
I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves.
Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.
Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one
When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.
I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.
My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.
Mothers of today have no greater opportunity and no more serious challenge than to do all they can to strengthen the home.
When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem.
My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.
It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.
When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is.
Fathers and mothers,” she found herself saying, “leave their mark, no matter if we’ve known them a lifetime or only a day.
The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.
Satan is not going to leave. The only way to get him out is to invite God in, and God is not welcome in my mother's house.
My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.
God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.
Mothers always think their children are prettier than they really are, and mine has always told me I look like Tom Cruise.
My mother and our pastor always said you have to pray for your enemies and people who do you wrong, and that's what I did.
Mother Russia is on the move, she can't stand still, she's restless and can't find rest, she's talking and she can't stop.
Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, "At the very least, you will be polite to them.
I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever.
But we have to look after mother nature so she can look after us - the water, the soil, the air and all the life within it.
There are mothers that feel they made a mistake by having a kid at a very young age and they didn't get to live their life.
Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.
To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.
I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.
But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him.
Families don't always realize that mother is exhausted, because mother is always exhausted. Exhausted is what looks normal.
Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy my daughters bring me.
I don't really have a plan. I've lived a very big life, and I don't feel my age, and I feel like I was born to be a mother.
There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.
It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.
Every time I look into the mirror, I want to see a man whose mother, sister, wife and daughter are proud to call their own.