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“A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative hints about it as you go along so that you don't end up with the entire explanation all in one place. This keeps you from skidding to a stop and sounding teacherish. Otherwise it's better to omit the obscure topic altogether, or as mothers might put it: if you can't say it interestingly, don't say it at all.”

Ifs Writing Ends Might Mother Explanation Obscure Topics Hints Cardinals Informative Cardinal Rules

Author:Florence King

“A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'”

Men Littles Christian Mother Jesus Speak Christ Boys Morning Rose Christian Inspirational Ministers Sunday Hung Little Boys Pulpit Sunday Morning

Author:Vance Havner

“You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.”

Ifs Mother Mom Evidence Sanity Rebellious Knuckleheads

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Whatever a man loves he inevitably clings to, and in order not to lose it he rejects everything that keeps him from it. So he who loves God cultivates pure prayer, driving out every passion that keeps him from it. He who drives out self-love, the mother of the passions, will with God's help easily rid himself of the rest, such as anger, irritation, rancor and so on. But he who is dominated by self-love is overpowered by the other passions, even against his will. Self-love is the passion of attachment to the body.”

Men Self Helping Body Mother Order Passion Loses Prayer Love Is Self Love Pure Driving God Love Rejects Attachment Irritation Rancor

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“A mystic sees beyond the illusion of separateness into the intricate web of life in which all things are expressions of a single Whole. You can call this web "God, the Tao, the Great Spirit, the Infinite Mystery, Mother or Father," but it can be known only as love.”

Whole Spirit Mother Father Known Mystery Expression Illusion All Things Infinite Tao Mystic Intricate Interdependence Great Spirit Separateness Web Of Life

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.”

Mother Father Issues Source Abandonment

Author:Kenny Loggins

“My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her.”

Want Giving Wanted Used Mother Voice Lessons Singing Painful

Author:Linda Lavin

“I know my mother-in-law would drive two hours to go see a movie that I'm in.”

Knows Two Law Mother Hours In-laws Mother In Law

Author:Melanie Lynskey

“My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.”

Said Wanted Mother Father Tradition Scholar Family Tradition

Author:Norman Lamm

“My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.”

Mother Clothes

Author:Phillip Lim

“I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened, looking at me with that serious and penetrating gaze of his that caused me such trepidation, and asked whether I knew what I wanted to do.”

Way Wanted Mother Father Speak Decision Study Serious Medicine Trepidation

Book:In praise of imperfection: my life and work

Source: In praise of imperfection: my life and work

“My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job, her family, and her community, and has been a role model of mine for many, many years. I'm extremely proud of her.”

Years Has Beens Jobs Mother Girl Three Winning Community Roles Mines Proud Models Journalist Role Models My Sister Dedication Exceptional Jennifer Emmys

Author:Ron Livingston

“Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.”

Running Mother Poor Ready Naked Running Away

Author:Sheryl Lee

“When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.”

Mother Acting Class Singing Dancing Singing And Dancing

Author:Beau Mirchoff

“If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly all illiterate.”

Ifs Looks Mother Degrees University Educated Illiterate University Degrees

Author:Greg Mortenson

“My mother and father are still together after forty something years. I lived in one place till I was 6. I lived in another place from when I was 6 till I was 17.”

Years Stills Together Mother Father Forty Mother And Father

Author:Janet McTeer

“Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.”

Mother Values Growing Up Growing Generations Birth Jokes Traditional Traditional Values

Author:Janet McTeer

“My mother never married my father. She was married to and divorced from another man, then she married and divorced my stepfather and then, ultimately, they ended up getting back together.”

Men Together Mother Father Married Divorced Another Man Back Together Stepfathers Getting Back Together

Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.”

People Mean Littles Kids Wanted America Used Mother Church Known Trouble Hero Used To Be Preacher Little Kid My Hero Goofy Murphy Imitating Coming To America Goofing Off

Author:Lamorne Morris

“My mother married three times. My dad is... I don't really have one. I mean, he does exist, but I have zero relationship with him.”

Mean Doe Mother Three Dad Married My Dad Zero Three Times

Author:Leslie Mann

“If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.”

Ifs Whole School Mother Son Summer If I Could My Son Camps Summer Camp

Author:Nate Mendel

“My mother and I never got along, not even when I was a child.”

Children Mother

Author:Tamara Mellon

“I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.”

Source: I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is

“I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We read about Mother Teresa and what a wonderful example she was.”

Knows Heart Mother Given Christ Wonderful Example Catholic Genuine God Love Teresa

Author:Bill McCartney

“I never turned down a mother role.”

Mother Roles Turned Down

Author:Dorothy Malone

“When you're interviewing someone, even your mother - you have to sort of deal with you have to get some objective space from yourself and the person but you also have to find what's the best way to get the information from that person.”

Way Persons Mother Space Deals Information Best Way Objectives Interviewing Someone

Author:James McBride

“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.”

Thinking Long Matter Helping Running Mother Long Runs

Author:Sofia Vergara

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”

Motivational Mother Opportunity Business Liberty Inspirational Life Lucky Luck Gambling Good Luck Diligence Poor Richard Diligent Best Of Luck Saying Good Luck Fortune And Luck Good Night And Good Luck

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“My mother was a huge Steelers fan, so they were my team growing up.”

Mother Growing Up Growing Team Fans Huge Steelers

Author:Deron Williams

“I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was from Southern Virginia. They migrated to Washington and I wouldn't even exist if it were not for that migration. And I brought her back to Georgia, both my parents, actually.”

Ifs Mean Mother Father Parent Mets Southern Rome Virginia Georgia Migration Airmen

Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.”

Mother Known Heard Disease Diagnosis Alzheimer Alzheimer's

Author:Kevin Whately

“I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl.”

Thinking Wells Enough Mother Girl Born Creativity Lucky Piano Fairy Lazy Call Me Nuts Glitter Dressed Up Louisiana Plantations Rebecca

Author:Rebecca Wells

“If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.”

Ifs Way Littles Mother Found Father Speak Voice Heard Brother Quiet Best Way Shut Up Older Brother Little Sister

Author:Peter Welch

“My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.”

Firsts Mother Father Born Generations Hollywood Raised Greek Native Los Angeles Born And Raised Bulgarians

Author:Rita Wilson

“I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my father, and he died when I was nine. She remarried, and her second husband died, too. I saw the grieving process she went through. My mother had this way of moving on. It was a fine trait.”

Way Should Trying Believe Moving Mother Father Process Saws Regret Fine Husband Died Don't Believe Nine Grieving Traits Mum Deeply In Love Grieving Process

Author:Robert Winston

“I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.”

Whole Would Be Mother Bed Invisible Ritual

Author:Ahmet Zappa

“I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at the time that sabotaged my mother's security in Pakistan.”

Government Mother Security Pakistan Adequate

Author:Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

“I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.”

Children Mother Pieces Design Objects Brother Salt Brothers And Sisters Cousin Peppers Mother And Child Shakers Salt And Pepper

Author:Eva Zeisel

“When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.”

Wells Children Mother Felt Design Mets West Restaurants Village Airports West Indies Zurich

Author:Eva Zeisel

“I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.”

Thinking Knows Book Mother Lord Rings Cult

Author:Markus Zusak

“It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.”

Thinking Writing Believe Wells Hard Mother Night Games Interest Imagination Careers College Serious Pursuit My Sister Every Night Make Believe Playing Make Believe

Author:Sara Zarr

“Being a mother by far is my favorite and most important career.”

Important Mother Careers My Favorite Being A Mother

Author:Jenni Rivera

“One of the things my mother taught me when I was a child was just keep your eye on the prize and as long as you feel that you're right with your creator and you're right yourself, then other people's opinions really don't matter.”

People Feels Children Long Matter Eye Mother Opinion Taught Creator Prize Eye On The Prize

Author:Cathy Hughes

“Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.”

Men Stills Mother Father Parent Devoted Convincing Mother And Father Dissatisfied

Author:John Ralston Saul

“What my mother doesnt know wont hurt her”

Knows Mother Hurt

Author:Sonya Sones

“My mum is Brazilian and very proud. I'd love to do a Brazilian film. I've been brought up in the Brazilian culture. My mum brought me up on my own, I cook Brazilian food, I've never spoken a word of English to my mother.”

Film Mother Culture My Own Proud Cooks Mum

Author:Kaya Scodelario

“I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like I'm a greater being. I take my kids to school, pick them up, go to the grocery store. I'm a mother, and my kids mean more to me than even being an artist.”

People Looks Mean Kids School Mother Artist Song Greater Picks Stores Groceries Being An Artist Grocery Stores

Author:Faith Evans

“People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.”

People Thinking Mother Singing Chasing Womb Pavement

Author:Adele

“My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.”

Mother Father Games Too Much Honor Occasions

Book:The World of Lincoln Steffens

Source: The World of Lincoln Steffens

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