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“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory - there will be a garden where all of us as one child will sleep in our mother Eve, hooped in her ribs and staved by her spine.”

Firsts Children Has Beens Lasts Mother Time Force Memories Sleep Behinds Known Events Movement Return Garden Brilliant Mourning Prophecy Reconciliation Spine Ribs Expulsion

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“In the event of an oxygen shortage on airplanes, mothers of young children are always reminded to put on their own oxygen mask first, to better assist the children with theirs. The same tactic is necessary on terra firma. There's no way of sustaining our children if we don't first rescue ourselves. I don't call that selfish behavior. I call it love.”

Ifs Way Firsts Children Young Mother Events Behavior Our Children Selfish Mask Airplane Rescue Oxygen Tactics Shortage Young Children Sustaining

Author:Joyce Maynard

“Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life.”

Source: This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

“Instead of being a static one-time event, bonding is a process, a dynamic and continuous one. Thus, a reciprocal, loving attachment is still realizable even when early contact is delayed--as it is for many mothers and their prematurely born infants, or when illness of either the newborn or the mother intervenes.”

Stills Mother Process Born Events Illness Contact Attachment One Time Infant Static Bonding Newborn Delayed Reciprocal

Author:Julius Segal

“Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution”

Mother Events Revolution Invention Printing Gutenberg

Author:Victor Hugo

“You might be a redneck if your mother has been involved in a fist fight at a high school sports event.”

Ifs Has Beens Might School Mother Fighting Sports Events Involved High School Fists Redneck You Might Be A Redneck If

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“But I'm still a work in progress. My mother calls me quite frequently with various critiques of my performance on TV and other public events. She's usually pretty severe with her comments.”

Stills Mother Progress Events Tvs Performances Various Call Me Comment Severe Critique Work In Progress

Author:John McCain

“What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness. It didn't matter what job I took, my mother's answer was, "Do what will make you happy." It brought attention to my own feelings, and the realization that I never knew what the future would bring so to keep an optimistic view of it, because who knows what today's events will bring.”

Knows Heart Matter Feelings Today Jobs Mother My Own Answers Views Attention Events My Heart Optimistic Realization Selfishness Make You Happy

Author:Bernie Siegel

“My role relationship to the event will continue to mutate. My relationship to my mother will continue to change as I revise my judgments of her depending on what I learn about her. It goes on. But I feel no less obsessive about my work and no less passionately committed to the life I have now, but I feel poised inside. Which is a good thing to feel at 48.”

Feels Mother Roles Events Goes On Judgment Good Things Committed Obsessive

Author:James Ellroy

“My family was very engaged in the world around us. My father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and an immigrant from Panama. He was deeply involved in civil rights causes, which scared my mother - she was also an immigrant, from Barbados, who had her hands full with six kids, and she worried that my father would get deported. But because of his passion for politics and civil rights, we paid close attention to current events. We would watch political conventions together - for fun!”