“I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I wouldn't be able to afford to have my mother with me this summer. So television has been very good to me.” Has BeensAbleMotherTelevisionSummerRiversWindowVery GoodEastApartment Author:Susan Sullivan
“I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantMightAbleMotherFatherForgetBrotherTreatsForgivingHonestlyTreatedAdversariesGrudgeOlder Brother Author:Monte Irvin
“In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.” AbleMotherCreativityStageCreatorProducersProductiveMagnitudeSkipGestationLoafing Book:Teacher in America Source: Teacher in America
“My mother is my hero just because, what life becomes about is overcoming adversity, and I watched her overcome so many things in life but still able to smile. See it's one thing to overcome adversity and to be scarred and to carry that with you but when you have somebody overcomes adversity and they're still able to smile that's something else. That's true strength.” StillsAbleMotherOne ThingHeroOvercomingAdversityMmaThings In LifeOvercoming AdversityMy HeroTrue Strength Author:Rashad Evans
“I'm working 18 hour days and I'm feeling guilty not being able to be there when all those times I want to be mother.” WantFeelingsAbleMotherHoursGuiltyFeeling Guilty Author:Kate Hudson
“I have been blessed in my career and I was able to afford the extra procedures and everything to have my children. Does that make me a better mother than someone who cannot afford it? No, of course not.” ChildrenDoeHas BeensAbleMotherCoursesCareersBlessedMy ChildrenExtrasProcedures Author:Cindy Margolis
“I was always pretty organized in high school and my mother, she always pushed me to just overachieve, both my parents. (They) let me know education is key and without it nowadays, you probably wouldn't be able to get a good job or have a decent living.” KnowsAbleSchoolJobsMotherParentKeysHigh SchoolLet MeOrganizedDecentGood Job Author:Jeremih
“What I do for living, working on something called string theory which we think may answer the fundamental question: Are there other universes? Can you go through a black hole? Can you warp the fabric of space and time and meet your mother before you were born? These are all questions that in principle string theory should be able to answer.” ThinkingShouldMayAbleMotherUniverseBlackBornSpaceAnswersPrinciplesTheoryFundamentalsHolesStringsFabricTime And SpaceBlack HoleWarpString Theory Author:Michio Kaku
“Modern women are just bombarded. There's nothing but media telling us we're all supposed to be great cooks, have great style, be great in bed, be the best mothers, speak seven languages, and be able to understand derivatives. And we don't really have women we're modeling after, so we're all looking for how to do this.” AbleMotherSpeakLanguageWomenModernMediaStyleBedSevenSupposed To BeCooksBeing The BestModelingDerivativesBest MotherBombardedModern WomanBombarded By Author:Jamie Lee Curtis
“If you're lucky enough to be able to have therapy -- because I know it's very privileged -- it gets rid of so much garbage and enables you to focus on what's important. When I first went into analysis, my mother was absolutely horrified. She thought I'd be a loony!” IfsKnowsFirstsImportantEnoughAbleMotherFocusLuckyAnalysisTherapyPrivilegedGarbageWhat's Important Author:Julie Andrews
“I can't wait to be able to drive, but it's hard. Good driving doesn't really run in my family genes. My mother is possibly the worst driver ever.” I CanHardRunningAbleMotherWaitingWorstMy FamilyDrivingDriversGenes Author:Emma Watson
“This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of his youth... was more than he felt able to bear.... his sorrow and misery were increased by the thought of my mother hearing it from some other source, which would no doubt separate them, and he shrank from the thought of such a thing, or of causing her any unhappiness.” KindAbleMotherFeltDoubtWifeYouthSourceBearsSorrowTestsMiseryHearingFaithfulNo DoubtUnhappinessDeceivingPolygamyFaithful Wife Author:Orson F. Whitney
“Most of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers, because they were not able to become the unique people they were born to be.” PeopleAbleMotherBornUnique Author:Gloria Steinem
“In the past, when I'd recorded during a break in a tour, it was so easy to sing, because I felt strong. Also, like so many new mothers, I wasn't getting a lot of sleep, and sleeping is such a huge part of being able to sing.” AblePastMotherStrongFeltEasySleepInspiringBreakHugeMothers DayNew Mother Author:Amy Grant
“Every child has a legitimate narcissistic need to be noticed, understood, taken seriously, and respected by his mother. In the first weeks and months of life he needs to have the mother at his disposal, must be able to use her and to be mirrored by her.” NeedsFirstsChildrenUseAbleMotherTakenWeekMonthsUnderstoodNarcissistic Book:Prisoners of Childhood Source: Prisoners of Childhood
“Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.” WorldBigsWould BeEyeAbleMotherWallShadowStandingCastsCornersFrightened Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: Use your eyes! Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge.” FirstsLittlesUseEyeAbleMotherBitsVoiceChallengesActingTaughtLittle BitAspectMy FamilyGrandfatherMy Grandfather Author:Keith Coogan
“There is no danger of exaggerating. We an never hope to fathom this inexpressible mystery nor will we ever be able to give sufficient thanks to our Mother for bringing us into such intimacy with the Blessed Trinity.” GivingAbleMotherReligiousMysteryDangerBlessedThanksIntimacySufficientTrinityFathomVirgin MaryBlessed MotherExaggerating Author:Josemaria Escriva
“Things happen in my physical body, in my relationships. I've buried three fathers and a mother. I've had a doctor tell me I've got a tumor in my brain. And when you face those situations, they transform you, they change you, and when you're able to break through them to a new level, they allow you to have gifts to give other people.” PeopleGivingBodyHappensAbleFacesMotherThreeFatherLevelsBrainSituationBreakDoctorsThings HappenBuriedBreak ThroughPhysical BodyTumors Author:Tony Robbins
“One of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families. I mean, physical labor, horrible; beatings, horrible; lynching death, all of that, horrible. But the living life of a parent who, A, has no control over what happens to your children, none. They don't belong to you. You may not even nurse them. They may be shipped off somewhere, as in "Beloved" the mother was, to be nursed by somebody who was not able to work in the fields and was a wet nurse.” MayChildrenCountryHappensAbleMotherParentFieldsLaborOur ChildrenSlaveryHorribleLive LifeBelovedYour ChildrenBreakupNurseWetMonstrousLynching Author:Toni Morrison
“When people say money doesn't matter, it sure as hell does when you're able to show your mother a beach house and then hand her the keys to it. That was one of the happiest moments of my life.” PeopleDoeMatterMomentsShowsHandsAbleMotherHouseHellKeysBeachBeach House Author:Tony Robbins
“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.” ThinkingFeelsBelieveWellsKindDoeImportantKidsAbleTogetherYoungMotherSufferingFatherI BelieveParentCan DoRealizingMomPicksImportant ThingsBest ThingsBe KindRespect Each Other Author:Vince Vaughn