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My mother taught me a lot about respect for all living things - for plants and animals. I am a vegetarian. I was brought up that way.
I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.
My mother, religious-negro, proud of Having waded through a storm, is, very obviously, A sturdy Black bridge that I Crossed over, on.
We listened [with my mother] to [Frank] Sinatra and Glen Campbell and we had some Beatles records that I liked. This was in the '70s.
If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.
Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls.
When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.
I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
Wherever you find a wife and mother-in-law slugging it out, you'll find a son who's not speaking up to either his mother or his wife.
You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live.
He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.
I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.
My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays.
It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.
Whatever consequences come as a result, in terms of work, I'm fully prepared to embrace because it's a priority to me to be a mother.
The Glorious Virgin did not have a stain in her birth because she was santified in her mother's womb and safeguarded there by angels.
Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.
I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?
I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out there who hates me.
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
[Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.
Does your mother know that you're carrying a gun? I'm going to tell her. I'm going to call and tell her right now." Joe Morelli's mom
Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.
You never want to do anything that you don't want your mother to see, because it will haunt you and eventually come back to bite you!
I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father's joy.
What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another?
India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it.
My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded these luxuries, and I'm very young.
The person who received maximum affection from mother, that person also sort of cultivated the potential showing affection to others.
The earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.
My mother used to tell me when I went somewhere, "Please leave your foolishness at home." But how could I do that? It was stuck on me.
My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.
Struggling in my father's hands, Striving against my swaddling bands, Bound and weary, I thought best To sulk upon my mother's breast.
The only thing my mother would say to me about my music - I'd say, "Mom, listen to this," and she'd say, "Junior, I know who you are."
My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
But even in your world it’s a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds… get a Mother.
I'm going to let people know that it's cool to have a child and be young and still be a good mom. It's really tough, but I'm doing it.
I think it's good for moms to work. I have three daughters, so I like them to see me working and doing something I'm passionate about.
When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.
The more famous an actress becomes, the less she's allowed to eat. Unless she wants to play people's mothers. And in bad clothes, yet.
To all fathers and mothers of the Church, tell your children that you love them and that you are so happy to have them in your family.
My mother was my Girl Scout leader, and George's mother was his Cub Scout leader. In fact, that's when some say her hair turned white.
The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will.
When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born.
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.
Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.