Best listening & mother Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.”

World Art Mother Father Listening Singing Our Family Spokes Listening To Music

Author:Kiki Smith

“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

“All scientists have found that preconceived notions, dogmas, and all personal prejudice and bias, must be set aside, listening patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will may see and know. She conveys her truths only to those who are passive and receptive.”

Knows May Light Mother Found Nature Teach Mystery Listening Lessons Scientist Prejudice Notion Dogma Passive Bias Mother Nature Receptive Preconceived Notions Shedding Light

Author:Luther Burbank

“When I was growing up, when I was 11 years old I was listening to The Mothers of Invention. You know, I mean I was a Frank Zappa fan in Arkansas.”

Knows Years Mean Mother Growing Up Growing Fans Listening Invention Frank Arkansas Zappa

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“Turn up the TV. No one listening will suspect, even your mother won't detect it, no your father won't know. they think that I've got no respect but everything means less than zero.”

Thinking Knows Mean Mother Turns Father Tvs Listening Suspects Zero No Respect No One Listening Less Than Zero

Author:Elvis Costello

“It came from my mother. She was a singer, and literally every day of the week she sang at a different club in a different genre of music: country, R&B clubs, jazz clubs, church on Sunday morning where she was the music director, pop hits, soft rock. I grew up listening to all this music, so it was never one thing for me.”

“She [my mother] said that if I listened to her, later I would know what she knew: where true words came from, always from up high, above everything else. And if I didn't listen to her, she said my ear would bend too easily to other people, all saying words that had no lasting meaning, because they came from the bottom of their hearts, where their own desires lived, a place where I could not belong.”

People Ifs Knows Heart Said Mother Desire Listening Ears Bottom Lasting True Words

Book:The Joy Luck Club

Source: The Joy Luck Club

“What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You know, your father enjoys his matinees.' I never even saw them go to the movies together. What could she mean? All those afternoons, I thought she was upstairs listening to La Traviata, and those high notes apparently were not coming from the radio.”

Thinking Knows Years Mean Together Mother Father Sex Parent Enjoy Saws Listening Daughter Notes Radio Afternoon Hints Upstairs High Notes

Author:Joy Behar

“It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening to everything from country to heavy metal to Indigo Girls to Elton John. I guess when I was really young I didn't like Willie Nelson, and she obviously loved him. Now I do too, I'm so thankful to her for playing his music nonstop.”

Country Young Mother Girl Growing Up Growing Huge Listening Heavy Metals Fanatics Nelson Heavy Metal Indigo

Author:Tig Notaro

“The tension to mother the "right" way can leave a peculiar silence within mother daughter relationships--the silence of a mother'sown truth and experience. Within this silence, a daughter's authentic voice can also fall silent. This is the silence of perfection. This silence of perfection prevents mothers from listening and learning from their daughters.”

Way Mother Fall Voice Silence Listening Daughter Perfection Silent Tension Peculiar Right Way Mother Daughter Mother Daughter Relationship

Author:Elizabeth Debold

“Listening to learn isn't about giving advice--at least not until asked--but about trying to understand exactly what someone means,how it is that someone looks at and feels about her particular situation.... Listening to learn from a daughter in adolescence, conspiring with her thoughts and feelings, keeps a mother in touch with a daughter's growing and changing self.”

Giving Feels Trying Looks Mean Self Feelings Mother Situation Growing Advice Particular Listening Daughter Adolescence Thoughts And Feelings Giving Advice Conspiring

Author:Elizabeth Debold

“So your strength is failing you? Why don't you tell your mother about it? ... Mother! Call her with a loud voice. She is listening to you; she sees you in danger, perhaps, and she-your holy mother Mary-offers you, along with the grace of her son, the refuge of her arms, the tenderness of her embrace ... and you will find yourself with added strength for the new battle.”

Christian Mother Voice Grace Failing Danger Son Arms Listening Holy Battle Offers Embrace Loud Finding Yourself Mary Tenderness Refuge Loud Voices Holy Mary Mother Mary

Author:Josemaria Escriva

“I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America. The mother and father osprey stay together. It's a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children. They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter - the mother and father.”

“The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.”

“You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power.”

World Running Action Mother Can Do Position Listening Return Terrible Late Tales Spots Witness Miserable Too Late Precise Retreat Infant Womb Old World

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“The other day my twelve-year-old says to me, I don't feel like I'm with you right now. You're in the car with me, you're checking your e-mail, you're not listening to me, I don't feel like I'm with you. And I say, You know what? That was your mother's gripe, too. And she was right. And you're also correct. When you cop to something, you get to the next level. In this case, the next level is: I just learned something from my twelve-year-old.”

Knows Feels Years Mother Next Levels Cases Car Listening Right Now Mail Twelve Cop Next Level

Author:Bob Saget

“My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.”

“I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish and then move on to gospel and later to "make believe" ballroom music. I got to hear all kinds of music and my mother would get up to go to work listening to country music. That was her alarm clock. My dad was a jazz lover and listened to the man who wrote "Misty", Errol Garner. He loved piano players, so I got to listen to that as well.”

“I sat around the kitchen every Sunday afternoon listening to my mother and aunts talk about the people in the neighborhood. Gossip - I loved it. And that turns out to be the writer's job: to attend to the gossip and spread it as far as you can.”

People Jobs Mother Turns Listening Spread Sat Kitchen Neighborhood Sunday Gossip Afternoon Aunt Sunday Afternoons

Author:John Dufresne

“I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'”

Mother Listening Birth Daughter Yeah My Daughter Baths

Author:Norah Jones

“It was tough sitting in jail listening to Jay Leno and Rush Limbaugh and everybody making jokes about me getting shot. And watching the media report all kinds of lies about me, like that I got raped in jail. That never happened. But at least while I was locked down, all the inmates gave me props encouragement, and so did lots of mothers and kids, who wrote me letters of support.”

Kind Kids Lying Mother Support Listening Jokes Tough Encouragement All Kinds

Author:Tupac Shakur

“Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.”

Giving Trying Has Beens School Mother Talking Journey Students Listening High School Incredibles

Author:Jill Scott

“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.”

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