Best habit & mother Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.”

“Mothers and daughters are part of each other's consciousness, in different degrees and in a different way, but still with the mutual sense of something which has always been there. A real mother is just a habit of thought to her children.”

Way Children Stills Different Real Mother Consciousness Habit Degrees Daughter Different Ways Mutual Mother And Daughter

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)

“Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.”

Mother Habit Good Mother

Book:On the Heights

Source: On the Heights

“Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.”

Age Mother Advice Habit Prove

Book:In Her Day

Source: In Her Day

“In vain are Schools, Academies, and Universities instituted, if loose Principles and licentious habits are impressed upon Children in their earliest years . . . . The Vices and Examples of the Parents cannot be concealed from the Children. How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers.”

Source: The Portable John Adams

“In one family, all goes by two and two. If a member of it has any interest, he or she will confide it to some one other; but the rest know nothing. In another family, all feel what touches one; nothing is kept dark from the father and mother, brothers and sisters--all share. This family habit is by far the better, it strengthens the tie between the members, and makes the home one home.”

Ifs Knows Feels Two Home Mother Father Interest Dark Share Brother Habit Members Ties Brothers And Sisters

Book:Notes of Thought

Source: Notes of Thought

“When Jennie, mother of Winston Churchill invited playwright George Bernard Shaw to lunch, he telegraphed: "Certainly not. What have I done to provoke such an attack on my well-known habits?" She replied, "Know nothing of your habits; hope they are better than your manners."”

Knows Wells Done Mother Known Habit Manners Lunch Provoking Well Known Invited Playwright Bernard Shaw

Author:Anne Sebba

“I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first to see whether she wanted to read it. It was a strange reading habit.”

People Firsts Ends Stories Wanted Lasts Mother Hate Reading Novel Strange Habit Pages I Hate Reading Habits

Author:Alice Hoffman

“I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.”

Thinking Trying Littles Stills Mother Bits Sports Wife Reader Habit Little Bit Daughter Down And My Wife Envy My Time My Daughter Bad Habits

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“I feel that between my experience and my mother's, breast cancer is a little bit like someone who lives next door. I know what that person looks like and what their daily habits are.”

Knows Feels Looks Littles Persons Mother Next Bits Doors Habit Little Bit Cancer Breasts Breast Cancer Daily Habits

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.”

Action Beautiful Mother Produce Habit Daughter Nurse Prosperous

Book:The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Lord Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore: Sermons

Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, Lord Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore: Sermons

“You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.”

Men Used Mother Habit Eating Breakfast Eating Breakfast Fedoras

Book:Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

Source: Plainwater: Essays and Poetry

“You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Children Littles Ends Sometimes Whole Home Might Together Used Mother Poor Morning Seeing Stupid Habit Letters Tired Foolish Spells Instruction Torment

Book:Northanger Abbey (illustrated)

Source: Northanger Abbey (illustrated)

“Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father, whom my mother always critized for his cigarette habit and who always shouted back that she should feel guilty that he didn't let my mother speak her mind. Too little wood and you bent too quickly to listen to other people's ideas, unable to stand on your own. This was like my Auntie An-mei. Too much water and you flowed in too many different directions. like myself.”

People Feels Should Mind Littles Persons Made Ideas Different Mother Father Speak Water Fire Five Too Much Habit Elements Woods Guilty Temper Cigarette Bent Different Directions Bad Temper Auntie

Author:Amy Tan

“Anthony Bridgerton leaned back in his leather chair,and then announced, "I'm thinking about getting married." Benedict Bridgerton, who had been indulging in a habit his mother detested—tipping his chair drunkenly on the back two legs—fell over. Colin Bridgerton started to choke. Luckily for Colin, Benedict regained his seat with enough time to smack him soundly on the back, sending a green olive sailing across the table. It narrowly missed Anthony's ear.”

Thinking Two Enough Mother Habit Married Ears Tables Green Legs Seats Chairs Sailing Leather Choke Enough Time Getting Married Olives Smack Tipping

Book:The Viscount Who Loved Me With 2nd Epilogue

Source: The Viscount Who Loved Me With 2nd Epilogue

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