“As the mother of a grown son with a traumatic brain injury, I couldn't be more excited about the prospect of finding out how to repair even a small part of the damage that changed his life.” MotherBrainChangedSonFindingsExcitedDamageInjurySmall PartsBrain InjuryTraumatic Brain Injury Author:Judy Woodruff
“I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.” ShouldLawMotherGivenPleasureBrainGood DayIn-lawsRecollectionMother In Law Book:Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose
“Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.” IfsThinkingGivingStillsI CanFeelingsPainMotherCan DoSleepForgetLevelsBrainEmpowermentFunctionIncrediblesScaryVocabularyBeing A MotherGrumpy Author:Anna Friel
“My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.” MenWaySaidSometimesMotherDealsBrainEqualBest WaySmarterMules Book:The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4 Source: The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4
“Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.” MotherSexBrainWifeFashionLoversCease Author:Honore de Balzac
“We all experience 'soul moments' in life-when we see a magnificent sunrise, hear the call of the loon, see the wrinkles in our mother's hands, or smell the sweetness of a baby. During these moments, our body, as well as our brain, resonates as we experience the glory of being a human being.” HumansWellsSoulMomentsBodyHandsMotherHuman BeingsBrainBabyGlorySmellMagnificentSunriseSweetnessWrinkles Author:Marion Woodman
“My mother used to say when we were children, 'When a boy gets a stick in his hand, his brains run out the other end of it.' Power is a stick in the hand, and I have never heard of anybody who wielded a very big stick of power whose brains did not run out the other end. As a nation, our brains are running out the other end of our power right now.” ChildrenEndsHandsBigsRunningUsedMotherNationsBrainBoysPowerHeardRight NowSticks Author:Jane Jacobs
“Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.” HeartChildrenHas BeensStillsIdeasHandsFormLyingMotherGirlSidesPoorSecretBrainMysteryBrokenArmsQuietBeatsBlameLaysSilentCharityWaveStormGravesThinkerWoePortUnbrokenWorkmenStorms Of LifeChafing Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.” KnowsMenWorldMayHas BeensMotherBornBrainFireBloodConditionsStudentsGeniusHarmonySatisfiedPleasantGreat MenRemarkableMakersVirtuousElectricCommonplaceWildnessDomesticityNatal Author:Gertrude Atherton
“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
“We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brothers winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.” MadeMotherGirlWinningBehindsBrainAdviceBrotherRedLipsNewspapersMy BrotherTerritoryHalloweenSuggestionsCostumesLipstickSweatersBrasRed LipsRed LipstickInspirational HalloweenCashmereHalloween Costume Author:Ann Hood