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“I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.”

Earth Mother Born Painting Taste Painter Milk Milieu

“So mothers everywhere take heart. The indoctrination you administer now may have unanticipated positive effects years later.”

Years Heart May Mother Effects Manipulation Indoctrination

Author:Robert B. Laughlin

“The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So cry out, O soul brides of the Husband Lord, and dwell on the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.”

Mind Soul Light Mother Lord Gone Doors Cry Husband Praise Glorious Brides Widows Of My Mind

Author:Guru Nanak

“I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.”

People Years Book Mother Four Advice Asking Finished Four Years Childbirth

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.”

Should Mother President Dance Ballerina

Author:Chita Rivera

“Happy Ending I did with Paul Winfield. There was a play- within- the- play and I was his mother - which is a peculiar bit of casting, to say the least.”

Play Mother Bits Peculiar Casting Happy Endings

Author:Brett Somers

“People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster.”

People Men Trying Made Mother Disaster Mother Nature

Author:Larry Sabato

“If my mother hadn't thrown my football boots on the fire, I might have become as famous as Denis Compton.”

Ifs Might Mother Fire Football Thrown Boots Compton

Author:Len Hutton

“For the whole consequence of evolution from blind impulse through conscious will to self conscious knowledge, seems still somehow to correspond to a continued result of births, rebirths and new births, which reach from the birth of the child from the mother, beyond the birth of the individual from the mass, to the birth of the creative work from the individual and finally to the birth of knowledge from the work.”

Children Stills Self Whole Seems Mother Individual Results Creative Evolution Birth Mass Conscious Consequence Blind Impulse Rebirth Self Conscious Creative Work

Book:journal

Source: journal

“I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show.”

Shows Mother Television Singing Dancing Lucy Carols Singing And Dancing Television Watching

Author:Debra Messing

“The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself.”

Trying Stills Mother Girl Roles Models Feminist Gender Bother Role Models Not Interested Bourgeois Being A Mother

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other.”

Humans Mother Human Beings Wife Dear Titles Transitory Wives And Mothers

Author:Mary Livermore

“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.”

Ifs World Should Self Kids Mother Boys Aspect Ideals Decided Baseball Idealism Circus Self Centered Backyards Grandpa Ideal World

Author:Norman Rockwell

“I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.”

Mother Literature Sides Born Known My Family Ohio Cincinnati Ohio

Author:Kenneth Koch

“We have nothing to fear but our mothers.”

Mother Canaries

Author:Anne Taintor

“Being a mother is quite tiring. There's not much time to do anything. You just rush around and it's hard work.”

Hard Mother Hard Work Tire Being A Mother

Author:Kirsty Gallacher

“Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that Mexican troops from some other town had attacked our camp, killed all the warriors of the guard, captured all our ponies, secured our arms, destroyed our supplies, and killed many of our women and children.. when all were counted, I found that my aged mother, my young wife, and my three small children were among the slain.”

Source: Geronimo's Story of His Life: As Told to S. M. Barrett

“Prime Minister Golda Meir said that the Middle East will see peace when Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel. On behalf of many Arab mothers, this is one mother who not only loves her children, but also loves Israel's children.”

Children Said Mother Hate Love Is Middle Israel East Ministers Prime Middle East Prime Minister Behalf Only Love

Author:Nonie Darwish

“I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church within itself. The Delta is the church of American Roots music. The Badlands is a cathedral without a top on it. And the Ryman has been called the Mother Church of Country Music, but to me it's the Mother Church of American Music. If you can think it up, it's been done there. In my mind, this is kind of a spiritual odyssey as much as anything else, and I had the settings of three churches to make it in.”

“The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother.”

Needs Children Mother Television My Children Bows Clown Puppets

Author:Elinor Smith

“My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.”

Mother Masters Concerts Absurdity Symphony Eccentricity

Author:Martin Short

“And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.”

Helping Mother Father Equal Importance Equations

Author:Malik Yoba

“The attitude and reactions of artists toward their art children reveal an attitude similar to that which mothers in general possess toward their children. There is the same sensitivity to any criticism, the same possessive pride.”

Children Art Mother Artist Attitude Pride Criticism Reactions Sensitivity Possessive

Author:Beatrice M. Hinkle

“A mother's example sketches the outline of her child's character.”

Children Character Mother Example Outlines

Author:Tim Howard

“How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.”

Ifs Children Matter Mother Language Mom Conversation Outcomes What Matters Infant Initiate

Author:Po Bronson

“Humility is the mother of many virtues because from it obedience, fear, reverence, patience, modesty, meekness and peace are born. He who is humble easily obeys everyone, fears to offend anyone, is at peace with everyone, is kind with all.”

Kind Mother Born Virtue Humility Humble Obedience Reverence Modesty Meekness

Author:Thomas of Villanova

“[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.”

Source: The Letters of Emily Dickinson

“The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother”

Children Mother Destiny Motherhood Just A Mom Future Destiny

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.”

“If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.”

Ifs Mother Father Poverty Crime Stupidity

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room.”

Ifs Eye Law Mother Rooms In-laws Foreheads Living Room Mother In Law

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.”

Used Mother Stuff Grew Distance Folks Motherhood Ems Meant To Be Were Meant To Be

Book:A White Heron and Other Stories

Source: A White Heron and Other Stories

“And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good Queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis, her son: witness her oft-repeated words, "My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin;" words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind, and strengthen him in treading God's ways.”

Way Should Mind Heart Children Said Reason Use Pain Mother Dies Father Sin Son Guilty Witness Mortals Queens My Son Monarchs Treading Mortal Sin Blanche

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.”

Children Long Mother Get Over Mothers Day

Book:The Country of the Pointed Firs

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs

“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.”

Ifs Running Mother Courses Father Born Blood Mets Diversity Raised Folks Track Boat Indian Territory Ancestor Mother And Father Born And Raised Right Track Cherokee Mayflower

Author:Will Rogers

“The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul Alas, what wickedness to swallow flesh into our own flesh, to fatten our greedy bodies by cramming in other bodies, to have one living creature fed by the death of another! In the midst of such wealth as earth, the best of mothers, provides, yet nothing satisfies you, but to behave like the Cyclopes, inflicting sorry wounds with cruel teeth! You cannot appease the hungry cravings of your wicked, gluttonous stomachs except by destroying some other life.”

“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

“Some good news. Finally, President Bush is going to do something about global warming. He became alarmed when another chunk of ice fell off his mother.”

Mother President News Ice Global Warming Good News President Bush Chunks

Author:David Letterman

“Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.”

Firsts Real Problem Happens Mother Inspiring Serious Mom Months First Time Mental Health Veteran Mothers Day Childbirth Postpartum Postpartum Depression

Author:Richard Codey

“I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.”

Ifs Mother Support Gone

Author:Patsy Cline

“Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always.”

Mother Son Mom My Son Mother And Son Inscrutable Mother Son Mother Son Relationship

Author:A. E. Coppard

“Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.”

Men Said Law Mother He Man Died Expenses Funeral In-laws Mother In Law Drawbacks

Author:St. Jerome

“Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased”

Mother Father Duty Navy Absent Naval

Author:John James Audubon

“Who can justly say aught against Joseph Smith? I was as well acquainted with him, as any man. I do not believe that his father and mother knew him any better than I did. I do not think that a man lives on the earth that knew him any better than I did; and I am bold to say that, Jesus Christ excepted, no better man ever lived or does live upon this earth. I am his witness”

Thinking Men Believe Wells Doe Earth Mother Father Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Witness Better Man Joseph Smith

Author:Brigham Young

“Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years.”

Years Humans Children Hands Mother President Human Beings Darkness Gone Wise Honor Equal Soldier Planes Chasms

Book:In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

“Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest, When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board The old broken links of affection restored, When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?”

Men Eye Care Past Mother Girl Rich Broken West South Rounds Lips Affection East Boards Links Gray Guests Worn Pie Pilgrim Pumpkin Thanksgiving Day North And South Pumpkin Pie

Author:John Greenleaf Whittier

“I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands a child as well as his mother, and children are so different that they need individual training and study. A teacher with a roomful of pupils cannot do this. At home, too, they are in their mothers care. She can keep them from learning immoral things from other children.”

Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks

“The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not; It was fought by the mothers of men.”

Men World Mother Battle Maps

Book:Joaquin Miller's Poems

Source: Joaquin Miller's Poems

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