Best breaths & mother Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.”

Ifs Humans Kind Mother Desire Pleasure Virtue Pure Breaths Refuse Permanent Appetite Nursing Rendering Satiety

Author:Socrates

“Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.”

Thinking Soul Moving Mother Sun Breaths Committed Deeds Good Deeds Breeze Things Change Erase Noon Scorching

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“How fragile life was, how fleeting their days on earth, and how fickle was Death, claiming the young as often as the old, the healthy as often as the ailing, cruelly stealing away a baby's first breath, a mother's fading heartbeat.”

Firsts Earth Young Mother Baby Healthy Breaths Stealing Fragile Fleeting Heartbeat Fading Fickle

Author:Sharon Kay Penman

“Come to the bridal-chamber, Death! Come to the mother's, when she feels, For the first time, her first-born's breath! Come when the blessed seals That close the pestilence are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke!”

Feels Firsts Death Mother Born Cities First Time Breaths Blessed Broke Strokes Chamber Crowded Seals Pestilence Bridal Crowded Cities

Book:Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

Source: Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems

“Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.”

Happens Mother Roles Wife Special Example Draws Breaths Planning Ritual Womanhood Widows Qualifications Widowhood

Author:Jacquelyn Mitchard

“O ye by wandering tempest sown 'Neath every alien star, Forget not whence the breath was blown That wafted you afar! For ye are still her ancient seed On younger soil let fall— Children of Britain's island-breed, To whom the Mother in her need Perchance may one day call.”

Needs May Children Stills Mother Fall Stars Forget One Day Breaths Ancient Seeds Wander Aliens Islands Soil Britain Tempest Afar

Author:William Watson

“Nine planets round the sun, only one does the sun embrace. Upon this watered one, so much we take for granted; So let us sleep outside tonight, lay down in our mother's arms, for here we can rest safely ... One sweet world around a star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming, and here we will rest in peace.”

World Doe Mother Stars Sleep Sun Planets Sweet Arms Breaths Embrace Lays Rounds Nine Granted Tonight Swimming Spinning Rest In Peace

Author:Dave Matthews

“One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.”

Men Mother Race Draws Breaths

Author:Pindar

“I started teaching myself, taking a breath or a moment that's not overreacting or having an explosion. It made me such a better person. Let alone a better mother, but also just a better human.”

Humans Persons Made Moments Mother Teaching Breaths Explosions Better Person

Author:Mila Kunis

“We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too.”

Thinking Needs Mother Bears Couple Drink Daughter Crosses Breaths Deep Breath Take A Deep Breath Crosses To Bear

Author:Julia Roberts

“My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.”

Ends Mother Tragedy Breaths Get Up Sheets Laundry Deep Breath Hang Ups Take A Deep Breath

Author:Patti Smith

“For all the ghosts and corpses that shall never know the breath of our children so long for the sacrifice and endurance of our mothers and the sustained breath of our fathers we live”

Knows Children Long Mother Father Sacrifice Breaths Our Children Ghost Endurance Corpses Our Father

Book:She

Source: She

“My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.”

World Humans Mean Made Book Mother House Names Born Memories Rooms Grew Grew Up Breaths Ancient Melancholy Latin Furniture Jungle Meaning Life Mummy

Book:Eva Luna

Source: Eva Luna

“He [Ranger] stopped in front of my parents' house, and we both looked to the door. My mother and my grandmother were standing there, watching us. "I'm not sure I feel comfortable about the way your grandma looks at me," Ranger said. [Stephanie] "She wants to see you naked." "I wish you hadn't told me that, babe." "Everyone I know wants to see you naked." "And you?" "Never crossed my mind." I held my breath when I said it, and I hoped God wouldn't stike me down dead for lying.”

Source: Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel

“And that was as far as he got before i heard it. The thumping of footsteps, running up the lawn toward me: It seemed like I could hear it through the grass, like leaning your ear to a railroad track and feeling the train coming, miles away. As the noise got closer I could hear ragged breaths, and then a voice. It was my mother.”

Feelings Running Mother Voice Heard Ears Breaths Train Track Miles Noise Grass Footsteps Lawns Railroads Miles Away Ragged Railroad Tracks

Book:Dreamland

Source: Dreamland

“I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice telegram or by his father's corpse in the city morgue.”

Way Believe Moments Wanted Lasts Mother Purpose Father I Believe Cities Died Breaths Witness Chill Corpses Telegrams Morgues

Author:Mitch Albom

“My Papa's Waltz: The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother's countenance Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt.”

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“Pass by the synthetic yarn department, then, with your nose in the air. Should a clerk come out with the remark that All Young Mothers In This Day and Age (why can't they save their breath and say "now"?) insist on a yarn which can be machine-washed and machine-dried, come back at her with the reply that one day, you suppose, they will develop a baby that can be machine-washed and -dried.”

Should Age Young Mother Air Baby One Day Machines Breaths Noses Department This Day Remarks Clerks Knitting Synthetic Yarn Young Mother

Book:Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac: The Commemorative Edition

Source: Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac: The Commemorative Edition

“In a world beyond this one, that river goes on singing sweetly, enchanting us with what we want to hear, shaping what we need to see in order to keep going. In those waters, all disappointments are forgotten, our mistakes forgiven. Gazing into them, we see a strong father. A loving mother. Warm rooms where we are sheltered, adored, wanted. And the uncertainty of our futures is nothing more than the fog of breath on a windowpane.”

Source: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy

“We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping, agonal breaths, hospice nurses, scars and bruises and scabs, and how skin papers shortly after a person passes. We will nod in agreement that it is as much an honor to witness a person leave this world as it is to watch a person come into it.”

“Eat of my deep earth, drink of my living streams, for I am your Mother. Your heart is my wild drum, your breath my eternal song. If you would live, dance with me!”

Ifs Heart Earth Mother Song Drink Eternal Breaths Streams

Author:Juliet Marillier

“Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems." 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.”

Knows Men Play Shows Seems Might Eye Action Together Form Mother Black Grief Shapes Rivers Breaths Mood Suits Woe Not Alone Solemn Cloaks Windy Good Mother Dejected

Author:William Shakespeare

“I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son.”

Trying Kids Used Mother Interesting Cry Son Died Breaths Mother Died

Author:Mira Grant

“When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.”

Ifs Knows Men Mind Believe Two Mother Sound Window Breaths Smell Checks Climbs Bedroom Nasty Pulse Pupils Deceased Sound Mind Recently Deceased

Book:The Steel Remains

Source: The Steel Remains

“She would have colored gracefully with embarrassment had she not possessed the complexion of one of those “heathen Italians,” as her mother said, who never colored, gracefully or otherwise. (Convincing her mother that Christianity had, to all intents and purposes, originated with the Italians, thus making them the exact opposite of heathen, was a waste of time and breath.)”

Said Mother Purpose Christianity Waste Opposites Breaths Wasting Time Possessed Convincing Embarrassment Heathen Complexion

Author:Gail Carriger

“And anyway, considering that her mother dies and her boyfriend's spending a small fortune to get high off someone else's bad breath, I'd say Sophie's next in line for therapy.”

Mother Dies Next Lines Breaths Fortune Spending Therapy Considering Sophie Getting High Bad Breath

Author:Rachel Vincent

“No one really needs me,” he says, and there's no self-pity in his voice...“I do,” I say. “I need you.” He looks upset, takes a deep breath as if to begin a long argument, and that's no good, no good at all, because he'll start going on about Prim and my mother and everything and I'll just get confused. So before he can talk, I stop his lips with a kiss.”

Ifs Needs Looks Long Self Mother Voice Kissing Argument Breaths Lips Pity Upset Confused Need You Self Pity Deep Breath Peeta I Need You Take A Deep Breath

Author:Suzanne Collins

“Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until she went away. It wasn’t that she was ugly, or had bad breath or a bad personality. She was a perfectly nice, standard-issue, brown-haired, white woman with a high school education. She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone through so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn’t really like life at all.”

“Charlotte said that if I chose, I could cease to be a Gray and take the name my mother should have had before she was married. I could be a Starkweather. I could have a true Shadowhunter name." She heard Will exhale a breath. It came out a puff of white in the cold. His eyes were blue and wide and clear, fixed on her face. He wore the expression of a man who had steeled himself to do a terrifying thing, and was carrying it through. "Of course you can have a true Shadowhunter name," Will said. "You can have mine.”

Ifs Men Should Said Eye Faces Mother Courses Names White Clear Heard Mines Expression Cold Married Should Have Breaths Blue Wide Cease Fixed His Eyes Gray Shadowhunters Puff Charlotte

Author:Cassandra Clare

“When i get home, I sit on the front step and take deep breaths of the cool spring air for a few minutes. My mother was the one who taught me to steal moments like those, moments of freedom, though she didn't now it. I watched her... But I learned something else from watching her too, which is that the free moments always have to end.”

Ends Moments Home Mother Steps Air Minutes Fronts Taught Spring Breaths Stealing Deep Breath

Author:Veronica Roth

“What more delightsome than an infinite varietie of sweet smelling flowers? decking with sundry colours the greene mantle of the Earth, the universall Mother of us all, so by them bespotted, so dyed, that all the world cannot sample them, and wherein it is more fit to admire the Dyer, than imitate his workemanship. Colouring not onely the earth, but decking the ayre, and sweetning every breath and spirit.”

World Earth Spirit Mother Sweet Flower Fit Infinite Breaths Motherhood Admire Colour Admiration Sample

Author:William Lawson

“Actors worry about bad breath, weight, receding hairlines and why their leading lady looks like their daughter.”

Looks Mother Actors Worry Daughter Weight Breaths Mother Daughter Leading Ladies Bad Breath

Author:Matthew Ashford

“My mother was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. There are moments when I remember her beauty, unadorned, unposed, not in some artificial place like a set or a photo call but rather captured outdoors in nature, where she took my breath away. When those moments surface, I miss her the most.”

Moments Beautiful Remember Mother Missing Daughter Breaths Surface Artificial Beautiful Women Captured Mother And Daughter Her Beauty

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.”

Men Mother Heaven Differences Race Draws Breaths Brazen Unshakable

Author:Pindar

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