M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Mothers tend toward right on most things.”
Source: The Forgotten Garden
“Mothers took their mothering so seriously now. Their frantic little faces...Ponytails swinging. Eyes fixed on the mobile phones held in the palms of their hands like compasses.”
Source: Big Little Lies
“Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.”
“Mothers were meant to love us unconditionally, to understand our moments of stupidity, to reprimand us for lame excuses while yet acknowledging our point of view, to weep over our pain and failures as well as cry at our joy and successes, and to cheer us on despite countless start-overs. Heaven knows no one else will.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers. Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people's minds and know when anything unusual was going on.”
Source: The Mystery of the Hidden House
“Mothers were the only ones you could depend on to tell the whole, unvarnished truth.”
Source: How to Be an American Housewife
“Mothers who are strong people, who can pursue a life of their own when it is time to let their children go, empower their childrenof either gender to feel free and whole. But weak women, women who feel and act like victims of something or other, may make their children feel responsible for taking care of them, and they can carry their children down with them.”
“Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.”
“Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home. Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world’s goods in order to spend more time with their children—more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying. These mothers choose carefully and do not try to choose it all.”
“Mothers Who Know Honor God They bring daughters in clean and ironed dresses with hair brushed to perfection; their sons wear white shirts and ties and have missionary haircuts. These mothers know they are going to sacrament meeting, where covenants are renewed. These mothers have made and honor temple covenants. They know that if they are not pointing their children to the temple, they are not pointing them toward desired eternal goals. These mothers have influence and power.”
“Mothers who live vicariously through the success of their children or husband need to find their own identity. While it is wonderful to see your children and husband become successful, what is even more effective is to lead and inspire through the example of your own successes. - Strong by Kailin Gow”
“Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years!”
“Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to their standards for their children.”
Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure
“Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything to keep her son alive another day.”
“Mothers, are you so busy with social life, [with projects], with clubs, with working out of the home, or with housework, that you have not time to sit down and talk to your little girls and tell them the things they should know when they are nine, and ten, and eleven, and older? Can you be frank and loving to them so that they in turn can be frank in giving you their confidences?”
“Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful.”
“Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.”
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“Mothers, take time to be a real friend to your children. Listen to your children, really listen. Talk with them, laugh and joke with them, sing with them, cry with them, hug them, honestly praise them. Yes, regularly spend unused one-on-one time with each child. Be a real friend to your children.”
Source: Come, Listen to a Prophet's Voice
“Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.”
“Mothers, train up your children in righteousness; do not attempt to save the world and let your own family fall apart.”
Source: An enemy hath done this
“Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.”
“Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.”
“Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.”
“Mothers, your relationship with your daughter is of paramount importance, and so is your example. How you love and honor her father, his priesthood, and his divine role will be reflected and perhaps amplified in your daughter’s attitudes and behavior.”
“Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream -- I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one.”
“Mothers." The man made a word sound like a curse. "I think birthing does something to your minds. You are all mad.”
“Mother’s Day really was in its origin an antiwar day, an antiwar statement. Julia Ward Howe was sickened by what had happened during the Civil War, the loss of life, the carnage, and she created Mother’s Day as a call for women all over the world to come together and create ways of protesting war, of making a kind of alternate government that could finally do away with war as an acceptable way of solving conflict.”
“Mother’s particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.”
Source: The Liars' Club: Picador Classic
“Mothman flew away from town, like a giant bat, and then disappeared from sight behind a thicket of skeletal autumn trees.”
Source: Heebie-Jeebies: Volume One
“Moths and flames, mankind and death--there is little difference.”
“Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There's something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic.”
“Moths ate holes in his mind and their wings beat a frantic migraine behind his eyes.”
Source: Don't Let the Forest In
“Moths kissing the porch light.”
Source: The Notebook
“Moths, large and white and fluttering in a manner just a little too bat-like, came out of hiding to revel in this unexpected dismissal of day. So too did fireflies: Rapunzel squealed in delight when, like tiny candles, they twinkled in slow, unhurried loops around grass.
"Is this your mother's magic?" she shrieked, clawing at Gina's arm. "
ARE THOSE FAIRIES
?"
"No, those are lightning bugs, Princess," Flynn said with a sigh. "In-sects. Whose butts glow."
"Right. I'm an idiot," Rapunzel said, trying to get one to land on her. "Because in real life, fairies aren't real but witches are."
"Touché," he said good-naturedly, with a bow.
Rapunzel felt her chest flutter.”
Source: What Once Was Mine
“Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother!”
“Moths," repeats Will. "You're afraid of moths?"
"Not just a cloud of moths," she says, "like...a swarm of them. Everywhere. All those wings and legs and..." She shudders and shakes her head.
"Terrifying," Will says with mock seriousness. "That's my girl. Tough as cotton balls."
"Oh, Shut up.”
Source: Divergent
“Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)
“Motif Petrify in fairy tales, as multiple aesthetical, has complex origins and development. Forgotten Transformed ritual foundation motive is revealed in the ritual killing of old people. The cyclical myth dismissal of growth and decline is attributed to old people stopping power of life. In order to preserve the life force Penina points out that it took to destroy the creatures that personified their weakening. Mythological justification for the ritual murder of the demonized old lady is a representative of an old man’s death. In doing so, there is no risk of punishment or retaliation for the killing done, because in the moral and mythological plane victim turns into a bully who needs to catch up with retribution. Deeply rooted in the mythical magical notion of the sacred, ritual killing old people is not completely lost in the genres of oral tradition, but is largely hidden in fairy tales.
Another basis Petrify in fairy tales is tied for proofing hero. In this type of Petrify emphasized the dependence of suffering from violations of the ban. Offense prohibiting turning into a demonic time and space, or prohibiting speech that is not necessarily related to the hazards arising from the proximity of the demons in lyrical songs, ballads, and some traditions and psychologically conditioned, but the tales he has not shown in the light of personal motives, since the clash of two sacred place in the framework of fulfilling the task of the hero. The power of the heroes in the face of a hostile beings Petrifying people in fairy tales to finalize a victory over the demon, a demon or a subsequent grace which frees the victim of the killed hero of his unfortunate fate, eventually expires Penina Mezei.”
Source: Penina Mezei West Bank Fairy Tales
“motif, n. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you. You don’t love me as much as I love you.”
“Motion at low Reynolds number is very majestic, slow, and regular.”
“Motion Before Motivation: It means you get started FIRST, then FEEL the Inspiration to keep going.”
“Motion capture is amazing. I prefer it. You wear a 'Power Ranger'-esque suit, you have tape balls on you, you have 60 cameras around you capturing your every movement and there's no hair, no makeup.”
“Motion capture is exactly what it says: it's physical moves, whereas performance capture is the entire performance - including your facial performance. If you're doing, say, martial arts for a video game, that is motion capture. This is basically another way of recording an actor's performance: audio, facial and physical.”
“Motion is a great tranquilizer.”
Source: World Made by Hand: A Novel
“Motion is always a relative thing. I move in relation to something else. Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one, and in relation to what can it move? There is nothing besides it. So this infinite Unit is unchangeable, immovable, absolute, and this is the Real Man.”
Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge
“Motion is created by the destruction of balance.”
Source: Leonardo Da Vinci on Painting: A Lost Book (Libro A)
“Motion is the context of living. We find meaning my and in our doing.”
“Motion is the sign of life.”
Source: Eternal Platform
“Motion is the unifying force of Everything. Without motion, no other forces exist on the micro or macro level, quantum physics, or the Universe level. Motion is the force unifying the whole Universe in one Unified Field. This Unified Field is one organism, and we call it the Universe. Without motion, there is no unity. What powers the motion is the Universal Mind. The Universe is a Child of the Universal Mind. Although the Universe is a “program” of a Universal Mind, there is still freedom and free will based on the potential of the Absolute to always be different in its infinite manifestations.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Motion is tranquility.”