Best mother & dream Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.”

Giving Littles Dream Eye Mother Certain Evil Blood Crosses Always Believe Grandma Gypsy Evil Eye

Author:Sam Raimi

“Imagine that the world had created a new 'dream product' to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it was available everywhere, required no storage or delivery, and helped mothers plan their families and reduce the risk of cancer. Then imagine that the world refused to use it.”

World Use Dream Earth Mother Born Imagine Plans Risk Products Cancer Available Imagine That Delivery Storage

Author:Frank Oski

“In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories.”

Thinking Stories Dream Remember Mother Song Dies Born Sleep Growing Broken Bed Shadow Roots Healed Old Song Sleep And Dream Broken Images

Author:Meinrad Craighead

“I dream of big things. I work for the small things. If you're going to dream, you might as well dream big. A lot of that came from my mother. She was adamant about the work ethic---about how you can't just dream things.”

Ifs Wells Dream Bigs Might Mother Ethics Work Ethic Big Things Small Things Adamant

Author:Kevin Costner

“With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying train of Life, fly backward far and fast The milestones of the fathers, the landmarks of the past. But human hearts remain unchanged: the sorrow and the sin, The loves and hopes and fears of old, are to our own akin; And if, in tales our fathers told, the songs our mothers sung, Tradition wears a snowy beard, Romance is always young.”

Source: Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier

“I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?”

People Knows Men Believe Dream Mother Wish Crime Son Blame Convinced Atrocities

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a combination of noble and striking sounds, our dream of artistic achievement, a pen name grand enough to compensate for my own feeling of insecurity and helplessness at the idea of everything my mother expected from me.”

Source: Promise at Dawn

“Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood.”

People Believe Heart Doe War Dream Mother Evil Father Dark Behinds Fire Inspire One Day Seeds Defeated Misunderstood Blooming Misplaced

Book:Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel

Source: Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel

“It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.”

May Dream Mother

Author:Sophocles

“Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.”

Littles Dream Mother Father Sleep Tree Baby Thee Sheep Shaking Dreamland Sleeping Baby

Author:Elizabeth Prentiss

“O German mother dreaming by the fire, While you are knitting socks to send your son His face is trodden deeper in the mud.”

Dream Faces Mother Fire Son Deeper Mud Sock Knitting Your Son

Book:War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

Source: War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

“My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.”

Dream Mother Girl Strong Dark My Family Laughed Very Strong Continents Strong Women

Author:Jane Goodall

“Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream -- I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one.”

Dream Law Mother House Wonderful Cost Pet In-laws Mother In Law

Author:Phyllis Diller

“Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!”

Men Kind Children Art Dream Mother Poor Childhood Seasons Infinite Rounds Sweetest Poor Man Radiance Slumber Huts Infinite Hope

Book:Sartor Resartus: The Historian

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Historian

“I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from this earth and all that I know, I know in this earth, the body of the bird, this pen, this paper, these hands, this tongue speaking, all that I know speaks to me through this earth.”

Knows Made Dream Body Hands Earth Mother Speak Paper Bird Tongue Pens

Book:Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

Source: Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

“Let's learn from the wisdom of every mother and father who teaches their daughters there is no limit on how big she can dream and how much she can achieve.”

Dream Bigs Mother Father Teach Achieve Limits Daughter Mother And Father

Author:Hillary Clinton

“My mother encouraged me and was very great about me being gay, but she always encouraged me to follow my musical dreams, which I'm very grateful for.”

Dream Mother Gay Grateful Musical Being Gay

Author:Elton John

“We have to divide mother love with our brothers and sisters. Our parents can help us cope with the loss of our dream of absolute love. But they cannot make us believe that we haven't lost it.”

Believe Helping Dream Mother Lost Parent Loss Havens Brother Absolutes Divides Brothers And Sisters Our Dreams Sibling Rivalry Mother Love Sibling Rivalry Absolute Love

Book:Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“I'm real ambivalent about [working mothers]. Those of use who have been in the women's movement for a long time know that we've talked a good game of "go out and fulfill your dreams" and "be everything you were meant to be." But by the same token, we want daughters-in-law who are going to stay home and raise our grandchildren.”

“What had I expected of the first child? Everything. Rocket scientist. Neurosurgeon. Designated hitter. We talked wisely at cocktail parties about the sad mistake our mothers had made in pinning all their hopes and dreams on us. We were full of it.”

Firsts Children Made Dream Mother Party Mistake Scientist Expected Rockets Cocktails Hopes And Dreams Cocktail Parties Neurosurgeons Designated Hitter

Book:Living Out Loud

Source: Living Out Loud

“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

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