T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The mother is the first teacher of the child. The message she gives that child, that child gives to the world.”
“The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.”
Source: Glitter and Glue: A Memoir
“The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.”
Source: The Century of the Child
“The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist.”
Source: Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v
“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.”
“The mother island wants you to know she can't give you a constellation like the demigod Maui has, but she can return Noelani's seeing stone to you--- restored by her own lava. She hopes that this pendant will serve as a reminder of your role and everything you've done for her and the rest of the ocean, so you, Moana of Motunui, can never forget who you are.”
Source: How Far I'll Go
“The mother killing her two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we have to have change. I think people want to change and the only way you get change is to vote Republican.”
“The mother loved me, the sister loved me, the father loved me, IT COULD'VE BEEN PERFECT!”
Source: The Meaning of Mariah Carey
“The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best.”
Source: The Outlook
“The mother may be doing ninety percent of the disciplining, but the father still must have a full-time acceptance of all the children. He never must say, "Get these kids out of here; I'm trying to watch TV." If he ever does start saying this, he is liable to see one of his kids on the six o'clock news.”
“The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . .”
“The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood. They are not profound, but they have stayed with me through life, and when I am very old, they will still be near . . . Memories of mother drying my tears, reading aloud, cutting cookies and singing as she did, listening to prayers I said as I knelt with my forehead pressed against her knee, tucking me in bed and turning down the light. They have carried me through the years and given my life such a firm foundation that it does not rock beneath flood or tempest.”
“The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality, in good manners and acts of service.”
“The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters.”
Source: Laughter of Aphrodite: reflections on a journey to the goddess
“The mother must teach her son how to respect and follow the rules. She must teach him how to compete successfully with the other boys. And she must teach him how to find a woman to take care of him and finish the job she began of training him how to live in a family. But no matter how good a job a woman does in teaching a boy how to be a man, he knows that she is not the real thing, and so he tends to exaggerate the differences between men and women that she embodies.”
“The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.”
Source: Three Classic Thrillers 3-Book Bundle: The Firm, The Appeal, The Chamber
“The mother of an adult child sees her work completed and undone at the same time.' If this holds true, I may have to withstand not only rage, but also my undoing. Can one prepare for one's undoing? How has my mother withstood mine? Why do I continue to undo her, when what I want to express above all else is that I lover her very much?”
Source: The Argonauts
“The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery...is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.”
Source: Pope John Paul II Speaks on Women
“The mother of creation is vanity.”
“The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“The Mother of Ignorance is always pregnant. But at Sean Price house, the b**ch have twins!”
“The mother of invention in music is necessity, not Frank Zappa!”
“The Mother of Sorrows is my confidante, my teacher, my counselor, and my powerful advocate.”
“The mother of the imbecile is always pregnant.”
“The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil.”
Source: At Holy Mother's Feet: Teachings of Shri Sarada Devi
“The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children”
“The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Yes', she replied 'but not the same ones.'”
“The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.”
“The mother opens her perfect mouth, and any guilt Gabi is feeling is
allayed by the incredible stupid that comes out of it. ‘I hope not. I really
hope not. You being a single mother and all.’ It’s worse than patronizing.
It’s matronizing.
Broken Monsters
pg 281”
“The mother provides a spirit
with a womb and nurtures it for months before birth, and
years thereafter.”
Source: Karma Sutra - Cracking the Karmic Code: Karma Sutra - Cracking the Karmic Code by By Hingori
“The mother‘s relationship to her daughter not only forms the earliest, if not primary, foundation for how the daughter formulates her sense of self, but is the basic template for her understanding of how relationships work in the world.”
Source: Mean Mothers: Overcoming the Legacy of Hurt – An Eye-Opening Resource on the Cultural Taboo of Maternal Behavior and Psychological Effects
“The mother sings a hungry song
Of blood and cracking teeth
She dances in the dark below
wants to pull us underneath
Her claws, they rise, they sway in dance
to the melody of screams
Her lullaby will never end
till the world comes apart at the seams”
Source: The Women in the Walls
“The mother swells, expanding from within without, like the bud of the lotus.”
Source: The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4
“The Mother Tantra says that if one is not aware in vision, it is unlikely that one will be aware in behavior. If one is not aware in behavior, one is unlikely to be aware in dream. And if one is not aware in dream, then one is unlikely to be aware in the bardo after death.”
Source: The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep
“The mother tongue is propaganda.”
Source: Media Research: Technology, Art and Communication
“The mother was convinced that the purchase of this piece of furniture would facilitate the bond she so hungered for with Gabriela, although she hated the unnerving history associated with the paravent. But, she thought, what could it possibly do to a child?”
Source: Within Paravent Walls
“The mother was holding a baby, had a stroller with what looked like twin girls around three, and had a five-year-old boy who was running around the shelves with a finger shoved up his nose. I considered warning him that if he fell, he would poke his brain out, but it struck me that losing intelligence was not something he was worried about.”
Source: Unraveling Isobel
“The mother was looking at nothing and listening to nothing but herself. “It’ll kill me, doctor! I’ll die of shame!” I made no attempt to dissuade her. I didn’t know what to do. We could see the father pacing back and forth in the little dining room next door. Apparently he hadn’t finished composing his attitude for the occasion. Maybe he was waiting for things to come to a head before selecting a posture. He was in a kind of limbo. People live from one play to the next. In between, before the curtain goes up, they don’t quite know what the plot will be or what part will be right for them, they stand there at a loss, waiting to see what will happen, their instincts folded up like an umbrella, squirming, incoherent, reduced to themselves, that is, to nothing. Cows without a train.”
Source: Journey to the End of the Night
“The mother who abandoned her child or took her own life leaves a daughter with the most direct access route to anger--she left me--but even the mother who falls ill and dies can be an object of blame.”
Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
“The mother who abandons her daughter leaves a pile of questions behind: Who was she? Where is she? Why did she leave? Like the child whose mother dies, the abandoned daughter lives with a loss, but she also struggles with the knowledge that her mother is alive yet inaccessible and out of touch. Death has a finality that abandonment simply does not.”
Source: Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss
“The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days; while she who lets their habits take care of themselves has a weary life of endless friction with the children.”
“The mother who takes pains to endow her children with good habits secures for herself smooth and easy days.”
Source: The Original Home School Series
“The mother's and father's attitudes toward the child correspond to the child's own needs.... Mother has the function of making himsecure in life, father has the function of teaching him, guiding him to cope with those problems with which the particular society the child has been born into confronts him.”
Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“The mother's battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.”
Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution
“the mother's first job is to raise a daughter strong enough to outlast her.”
“The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life.”
Source: The Duties of Man and Other Essays
“The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come.”
Source: The Duties of Man and Other Essays
“The mother's kiss is the sweetest thing ever.”
“The Mother's knowledge of unity, her powers of sensitivity, humility, and balance, and her infinite respect for the miracle of all life have now to be invoked by each of us and practiced if the 'masculine' rational imbalance of our civilization is to be righted before its too late.”
Source: Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action
“The mother's love for her child is very strong in Korean society - almost on the borderline of being an obsession.”