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“I'm not sure exactly why I chase storms. Perhaps it's to witness the incredible beauty of what Mother Nature can create.”

Mother Nature Incredibles Storm Witness Not Sure Mother Nature

Author:Tim Samaras

“...Iknow the bitter fact that most lives are incredibly wasted, that opportunities for developing identity, for receiving pleasure, for achieving a sense of self-worth are limited and, not only underdeveloped, but in most cases not developed at all--because no one thinks that a housewife, or a mother, or a typist has anything to develop.”

Thinking Self Facts Mother Opportunity Pleasure Cases Achieve Identity Self Worth Bitter Developing Receiving Sense Of Self Housewife

Author:Irena Klepfisz

“... nothing seems completely to differentiate the poor but poverty. We find no adjectives to fit them, as a whole, only those of which Want is the mother. "Miserable" covers many; "shabby" most, and I am sadly aware that, in a large majority of minds, "disagreeable" includes them all.”

Want Mind Whole Seems Mother Poor Poverty Fit Majority Miserable Disagreeable Adjectives Differentiate Shabby Classism

Book:Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations

Source: Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations

“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

“It is the women of Europe who pay the price while war rages, and it will be the women who will pay again when war has run its bloody course and Europe sinks down into the slough of poverty like a harried beast too spent to wage the fight. It will be the sonless mothers who will bend their shoulders to the plough and wield in age-palsied hands the reaphook.”

World War Hands Running Age Mother Fighting Courses Pay Poverty Europe Rage Shoulders War Of The Worlds Beast World War I Bloody Pay The Price Slough

Author:Kate Richards O'Hare

“The so-called ‘crank’ may be quite original in his ideas. … Invention, however, in the engineering sense involves originality; but not that alone, if the results are to be of value. There is imagination more or less fertile, but with it a knowledge of what has been done before, carried perhaps by the memory, together with a sense of the present or prospective needs in art or industry. Necessity is not always the mother of invention. It may be prevision.”

Ifs Needs May Has Beens Art Ideas Done Together Mother Values Imagination Memories Results Industry Originals Invention Originality Engineering Fertile Crank Prevision

Author:Elihu Thomson

“What ignited the rocket that sent you up into the vast regions of comedy, and why? I would say, for me, that philosophical treatise about having black beginnings and wanting love to compensate for that, wanting audiences and wanting attention - I say, "Au contraire." Completely opposite. I want the continuation of my mother's incredible love and attention to me.”

Want Mother Black Attention Audience Comedy Opposites Philosophical Incredibles Regions Rockets Continuation

Author:Mel Brooks

“My father is doing a radio program - classical music. He has a beautiful speaking voice and that's his passion in life, his music. My mother lives in Melbourne and is an avid photographer. She's also started writing for a magazine out there and she submits poems, very funny ones, and articles. In some way or other, my family is always doing something with the media.”

Way Writing Beautiful Mother Passion Father Voice Media Program My Family Photographer Radio Magazines Articles Submit Classical Music Avid Melbourne

Author:Olivia Newton-John

“I had a good, sound upbringing with sensible people around me. I was brought up by intelligent parents. My mother always said to me, "You've got to work at your career and you've got to be good at it. Okay, you've had a bit of success but that's not longevity. You've got to really work for a long time."”

People Long Said Mother Bits Parent Sound Careers Long Time Okay Intelligent Be Good Sensible Longevity Upbringing

Author:Olivia Newton-John

“What writing ROOM taught me was that I know exactly how to be the perfect mother, but I'm not willing to do it for more than ten minutes at a time.”

Knows Writing Mother Perfect Rooms Minutes Taught Willing Ten

Author:Emma Donoghue

“My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.”

Years Different Mother Father Parent Religious Christianity Five Teacher Thirty Five Years Traveled Nigeria Evangelists

Author:Chinua Achebe

“My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.”

Mother Father Parent White Couple African American Adopted Passed Away

Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“Like every human we have to categorize ourselves, so you kind of start to build a mythos 'cause I had no information about [ biological mother]. So you have to build a mythos around yourself. And so my mythos included me not being wanted or me being a wretched person, which is just great fertilizer for comedy.”

Humans Kind Persons Wanted Mother Causes Comedy Information Wretched Fertilizer

Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“My adoptive mother tirelessly worked most of her life to build up my self-esteem. So what happened was finding her started to shed light and destroy my mythos. So for the first year of knowing her, my mom kind of actually literally visited me in Detroit and kind of gave me a tour of my life - where I was conceived, where I was born, where she found out she was pregnant. It was amazing, Terry, and very emotional.”

Years Firsts Kind Self Light Mother Found Born Knowing Happened Self Esteem Emotional Mom Findings My Mom Esteem Pregnant Shed Detroit Were Pregnant

Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“I don't think you have to live in the fantasy world of Westeros to have problems with your mother-in-law.”

Thinking World Problem Law Mother Fantasy In-laws Mother In Law Fantasy Worlds

Author:Natalie Dormer

“When we [adoption agency] have a birth mother who is pregnant and she doesn't know the race of the father, she is using drugs, and she is in crisis, usually we cannot place that baby with a heterosexual family. Almost all of the times when we have a drug-addicted child, we place the baby in a homosexual family.”

Knows Children Mother Father Race Baby Birth Drug Crisis Agency Pregnant Adoption Homosexual Birth Mother

Author:Rosie O'Donnell

“I took in a foster kid that I wanted to adopt in the state where I live, and I pay taxes, said to me, based on not your morality, not on how good you are as a mother, not on how much you've given to foster kids in Florida, based on the facts that you're in love with a woman, you can't keep her.”

Said States Facts Kids Wanted Mother Given Pay Morality Taxes Florida

Author:Rosie O'Donnell

“I live a very privileged life, obviously. I'm an accomplished actor, I have a very solid normal family, tons of siblings, and a mother that loves me.”

Mother Actors Normal Accomplished Privileged Sibling Normal Family Privileged Life

Author:Chloe Grace Moretz

“I want my mother to think - she's a tough fashion critic.”

Thinking Want Mother Fashion Tough Critics

Author:Eva Mendes

“You realize how much the relationship when kids are young can suffer. And it's important to make sure that you are able to spend some time with each other. As a father, the best thing you can do for the kid is to love the mom. Even as a parent, I believe that loving the mother is the most important thing. And even parents who maybe aren't together I think that's important for them as well to respect each other and to be kind to each other, because I think it does so much in who they would pick to be around, or how they feel about themselves.”

“I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.”

People Thinking Knows Want Play Mother Father Expectations Lawyer Coaches

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all these great musicians would come through our town of Memphis. There wasn't adequate hotels, so these musicians - the lady who ran the theater knew my mother, who had a large house, and many of them would stay with us. So that was another great blessing, so I'm always around these great geniuses, and to realize their humanity is such a touching thing.”

Men Young Mother Humanity House Realizing Genius Blessing Musician Theater Towns Moved Ran Young Man Hotel Touching Adequate Great Music Dukes Memphis Great Musician Our Town Hamptons

Author:Charles Lloyd

“One of the best indicators of student achievement is the academic success of the mother in the home.”

Home Mother Students Achievement Academic Indicators Academic Success Student Achievement

Author:Tony Danza

“Few stories are written about what happens to the princess after the wedding. Reading between the lines of other stories, we can sketch out her "happily ever after": The princess gets pregnant and hopes for sons. As long as she is faithful and bears sons, she is considered to be a good wife. We don't hear whether or not she's a good mother, unless something goes wrong with her children.... All of history has been written about the subsequent adventures in the chapters of his life.”

Source: Mother daughter revolution: from betrayal to power

“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

“Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.”

“Today's fathers and mothers--with only the American dream for guidance--extend and overextend themselves, physically, emotionally,and financially, during the best years of their lives to ensure that their children will grow up prepared to do better and go further than they did.”

Years Children Dream Today Mother Father Grows Growing Up Prepared Guidance American Dream Best Year

Book:Daughters: from infancy to independence

Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence

“Life with a daughter of nine through twelve is a special experience for parents, particularly mothers. In a daughter's looks, actions, attitudes, passions, loves, and hates, in her fears and her foibles, a mother will see herself at the same age. You are far enough away to have some perspective on what your daughter is going through. Still, you are close enough, if reminded, to feel it all again.”

Source: Daughters: from infancy to independence

“In a cross-cultural study of 173 societies (by Herbert Barry and L. M. Paxson of the University of Pittsburgh) 76 societies typically had mother and infant sharing a bed; in 42 societies they shared a room but not a bed; and in the remaining 55 societies they shared a room with a bed unspecified. There were no societies in which infants routinely slept in a separate room.”

Mother Rooms Study Bed Crosses University Infant Pittsburgh

Author:Melvin Konner

“Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.”

“How can you just leave me standing? Alone in a world that's so cold? (So cold) Maybe I'm just too demanding, Maybe I'm just like my father too bold.Maybe you're just like my mother She's never satisfied (She's never satisfied) Why do we scream at each other? This is what it sounds like when doves cry.”

World Mother Father Sound Cry Cold Standing Satisfied Scream Leaving Me Dove Standing Alone

Author:Prince

“When I was a kid they didn't call it dyslexia. They called it you know, you were slow, or you were retarded, or whatever. What you can never change is the effect that the words 'dumb' and 'stupid' have on young people. I knew I wasn't stupid, and I knew I wasn't dumb. My mother told me that. If you read to me, I could tell you everything that you read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?”

People Ifs Knows Kids Young Mother Effects Stupid Dumb Lazy Never Change Retarded Dyslexia

Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.”

Mother Hundred Sixty Seventies Scarves

Author:Kelly Wearstler

“The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes - it never tires - it endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute. In the face of the world's condemnation, a mother's love still lives on.”

World Stills Faces Mother Endure Exhausted Tire Never Change Condemnation Mother Love Mother's Love Still Life

Author:Washington Irving

“My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.”

Mother

Author:Lindsey Haun

“From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.”

Writing Age Jobs Young Mother Fun Advice Very Good Young Age Good Advice

Author:Joanne Harris

“My mother had a book club that would dissolve into opening wine.”

Book Mother Wine Clubs Opening Book Club

Author:Tim Federle

“If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.”

Ifs Want Mother Ethics Working It Want Something

Author:Joanne Harris

“My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.”

Children Mother Patient Genes

Author:Merry Clayton

“Brian Howe had no mother, so he won't be missed.”

Mother Brian

Author:Mary Bell

“Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.”

Mother Capable Shocked

Book:Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.”

Knows Firsts Feelings Home Remember Mother Opportunity Millions Doors Fronts Proud Walking Findings First Time Excited Reaching My Sister Remember When Thirteen Front Doors First Home

Author:Kamala Harris

“Mother is the home we come from. She is nature, soil, ocean.”

Home Mother Ocean Soil

Book:THE ART OF LOVING

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“More and more details coming out now about spoiled rich kid Osama bin Laden. Time reports this week he was one of 52 kids. Mother must be exhausted. This guy inherited $80 million at age 13 and has since expanded it to $300 million through construction, smart investments and gas and oil investments. This way, he can use the money in his war against capitalism.”

Way War Use Kids Age Mother Guy Millions Rich Week Smart Capitalism Investment Details Oil Reports Gas Coming Out Construction Exhausted This Guy Bin Laden Spoiled Osama Bin Laden Rich Kids

Author:Jay Leno

“I get no respect... I tell you, when I was born, the doctor smacked my mother”

Mother Born Doctors No Respect

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.”

Mother Seeing Cry Blindness Hopelessness

Author:Stevie Wonder

“[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding.”

Mother Found Father Shirts Drawers Ham

Book:My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business - Dick Van Dyke

Source: My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business - Dick Van Dyke

“Jesus makes large claims for his heavenly father but never mentions that his mother is or was a virgin, and is repeatedly very rude and coarse to her when she makes an appearance.”

Mother Father Jesus Claims Appearance Heavenly Rude Virgins Heavenly Father Coarse

Book:God is Not Great

Source: God is Not Great

“There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.”

Mother Father Teacher Equal Dignity Contagious

Author:Amit Ray

“The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the youth and the children who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans, and that we are citizens of the world.”

World Children Mother Father Nations Memories Youth Son Pride Citizens Daughter South Deeds Honour South Africa

Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

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