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I do believe that there is something at the core of protecting your offspring - the love of a mother, you just don't get in the way of it.
We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
My mother taught me about the power of inspiration and courage, and she did it with a strength and a passion that I wish could be bottled.
I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]
My mother-in-law has come round to our house at Christmas seven years running. This year we're having a change. We're going to let her in.
You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.
I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.'
It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.
As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.
Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.
A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.
Like any working mother, I have to balance and manage my time very carefully. My children and husband come first, of course, then my work.
Fortunately, I was given an incredible foundation from my independent mother. She showed me what was possible from a strong, loving woman.
Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.
Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.
The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.
The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.
In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.
I'm not sure that people want to go back to the womb. People want to go back to the teats of your mother and hear your mother's heartbeat.
The birth mother is placing the baby out of love. I still believe that. Well, the ones weve dealt with who were actually pregnant, anyway.
In order to help those around you, and in order to even be a good actress and a good mother at the same time, you have to know your worth.
Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.
Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.
Long before we discovered mirrors and photographs, our mothers' reflections provided us with the earliest glimpses of our female identity.
My mother is home. Your mother is your home. Everybody is a momma's boy or a momma's girl. That's where we came from, from a woman's womb.
[When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness.
But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible
My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.
I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it.
My daughter refuses to call me mother in public; my little grandson calls me Spongeslob Squarebottom, and nobody else ever calls me at all.
That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.
My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.
My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.
For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.
A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.
Helmer: "Before all else you are a wife and a mother." Nora: "That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being."
When I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.
After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.
Mother Nature may be forgiving this year, or next year, but eventually she's going to come around and whack you. You've got to be prepared.
I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.
When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.
My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.
My mother drove back to the intersection. "Who are you dating?" "Don't ask," I said. I wasn't dating anyone. I was fornicating with Batman.
My mother hated foundation; she hated having a mask on her face - and she pushed me to build my own vision and concept of beauty for women.
A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there.
My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.
You have to find a mother inside yourself. We all do. Even if we already have a mother, we still have to find this part of ourselves inside
I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.
I know my mother would be overwhelmed by the continued outpouring of kindness and I want to thank everyone for keeping us in their prayers.