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“One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.”

World Years Firsts Home Mother Felt Half One Word Anchors

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.”

Thinking Bigs Mother Left Felt Sides Space Effects Huge Filled Holes

Author:Imelda Staunton

“My father and mother are both very smart people and I always felt I was a little short of the mark. So I would compensate with a character like Logan Cale. He's wearing glasses, he's in a wheelchair, he's a computer genius. He's very far away from who I am, but I really wanted to play roles where I'd be taken seriously.”

People Littles Play Character Wanted Mother Father Felt Roles Taken Genius Computer Smart Mark Glasses Who I Am Far Away Smart People Very Smart Wheelchairs

Author:Michael Weatherly

“When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.”

Wells Children Mother Felt Design Mets West Restaurants Village Airports West Indies Zurich

Author:Eva Zeisel

“I was blessed enough to meet Pope John Paul when I was about 19 or 20 years old in the Vatican; I had that privilege, .. My mother took me to visit him and I remember distinctly his incredible charisma and personal charm and his warmth and compassion. You felt it immediately the minute you met him, and that spirit I came away with, having met the man, is something that I've been constantly working on to infuse the character with, so that we can have his spirit and his love and his compassion, because that's really the essence of the man.”

Men Years Enough Character Remember Spirit Mother Felt Compassion Minutes He Man Mets Essence Blessed Incredibles Privilege Charm Warmth Pope His Love Charisma John Paul Pope John Paul

Author:Cary Elwes

“I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or whether Napoleon , at Austerlitz, really felt that he was getting even with Madame Mère. I know nothing of the mother of Attila , but I rather suspect that she spoilt the little darling, who subsequently found the world irritating because it sometimes resisted his whims.”

Knows Men World Littles Sometimes Mother Found Father Felt Doubt He Man Filled Terror Chiefs Suspects Darling Pirate Whim Irritating Retrospective Spoilt

Book:Power: A New Social Analysis

Source: Power: A New Social Analysis

“Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.”

Thinking Way Wells Enough Mother Felt Income Fortunate Call Me Communist

Author:Liev Schreiber

“I didn't like what was on TV in terms of sitcomsit had nothing to do with the color of themI just didn't like any of them. I saw little kids, let's say 6 or 7 years old, white kids, black kids. And the way they were addressing the father or the mother, the writers had turned things around, so the little children were smarter than the parent or the caregiver. They were just not funny to me. I felt that it was manipulative and the audience was looking at something that had no responsibility to the family.”

Way Years Children Littles Kids Mother Father Felt Parent Black Term White Responsibility Audience Saws Color Tvs Smarter Little Kid Sitcom Manipulative Caregivers

Author:Bill Cosby

“I have never felt any connection with my family. There isI must say simplysomething in me that is not in my family. That was not visible in my father or mother. I do not know its origin.”

Knows Mother Father Felt My Family Connections Visible

Author:Jean Cocteau

“And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right!”

World Happens Mother Felt Parent Opinion Advice Horror Discovery Prejudice Folks Realising Superiority Propositions Scorned

Book:Love Over Scotland

Source: Love Over Scotland

“I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that.”

Ifs I Can Mother Wish Felt Rooms Benefits Empty Performances Performers Teresa Hospice Empty Rooms

Author:Bea Arthur

“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.”

Kind Able Mother Felt Doubt Wife Youth Source Bears Sorrow Tests Misery Hearing Faithful No Doubt Unhappiness Deceiving Polygamy Faithful Wife

Author:Orson F. Whitney

“For too many families, the aftershock of the war in Afghanistan will be felt every day, most probably for the rest of their lives. I know because I've looked into the eyes and the faces of grieving mothers.”

Knows War Eye Faces Mother Felt Grieving Afghanistan Aftershock

Author:Ross Kemp

“The loss of a mother is always keenly felt, even if her health be such as to incapacitate her from taking an active part in the care of the family. She is the sweet rallying-point for affection, obedience, and a thousand tendernesses. Dreary the blank when she is withdrawn!”

Ifs Care Mother Felt Loss Sweet Thousand Affection Active Obedience Tenderness Blank Dreary Rallying Rallying Point

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.”

Earth Mother Felt Cheeks Bosoms

Book:My Life and Some Letters

Source: My Life and Some Letters

“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.”

Able Past Mother Strong Felt Easy Sleep Inspiring Break Huge Mothers Day New Mother

Author:Amy Grant

“I had come to feel that my mother's love for me was designed solely to make me into an echo of her; and I didn't know why, but I felt that I would rather be dead than become just an echo of someone.”

Knows Feels Mother Felt Echoes Mother's Love

Book:Lucy: A Novel

Source: Lucy: A Novel

“The longer one lives in this hard world motherless, the more a mother's loss makes itself felt.”

World Hard Mother Felt Loss

Book:Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

Source: Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle

“I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.”

Mother Felt Fate Guilty

Author:Valerie Trierweiler

“I have sat with the mothers who have lost addicted sons. I have sat with families of kids who have been killed in drug-related gang violence. I have been to the prisons. I have seen the effects. At some point in time, I felt I had to do something other than write a novel about it, that I needed to try to make some sort of contribution, at least try to make some sort of difference in the real world.”

World Writing Trying Has Beens Real Kids Mother Lost Felt Differences Novel Violence Effects Son Needed Drug Prison Sat Related Contribution Real World Gang Gang Violence

Author:Don Winslow

“I myself am mixed race - my mother is Korean, and my father is an American Jew - so I've always felt other.”

Mother Father Felt Race Jew Korean Mixed Race

Author:Gabrielle

“My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, What can I do?”

Years Lasts Mother Felt Died Cancer Last Year Helpless Economist Lungs Mother Died Lung Cancer

Author:Andrew Lo

“The forest is the first cathedral. I felt that from the time I was a child. I credit my mother with that. I used to think it came from her Native-American side. Whichever it was, she instinctively connected with nature, and taught me that.”

Thinking Firsts Children Used Mother Felt Sides Taught Connected Credit Forests Native Native American Cathedrals

Author:Alice Walker

“I have always felt that too much time was given before the birth, which is spent learning things like how to breathe in and out with your husband (I had my baby when they gave you a shot in the hip and you didn't wake up until the kid was ready to start school), and not enough time given to how to mother after the baby is born.”

Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

“I have often felt that I cheated my children a little. I was never so totally theirs as most mothers are. I gave to audiences whatbelonged to my children, got back from audiences the love my children longed to give me.”

Giving Children Littles Mother Felt Audience Give Me My Children Cheated I Cheated Love My Children

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“Having children can smooth the relationship, too. Mother and daughter are now equals. That is hard to imagine, even harder to accept, for among other things, it means realizing that your own mother felt this way, too--unsure of herself, weak in the knees, terrified about what in the world to do with you. It means accepting that she was tired, inept, sometimes stupid; that she, too, sat in the dark at 2:00 A.M. with a child shrieking across the hall and no clue to the child's trouble.”

Source: Living Out Loud

“Every life and every childhood is filled with frustrations; we cannot imagine it otherwise, for even the best mother cannot satisfy all her child's wishes and needs. It is not the suffering caused by frustration, however, that leads to emotional illness, but rather the fact that the child is forbidden by the parents to experience and articulate this suffering, the pain felt at being wounded.”

Needs Children Facts Pain Mother Suffering Wish Felt Parent Imagine Childhood Emotional Filled Illness Frustration Wounded Forbidden Best Mother

Book:For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“All my life I've felt like somebody's wife, or somebody's mother or somebody's daughter. Even all the time we were together, I never knew who I was. And that's why I had to go away. And in California, I think I found myself.”

Thinking Together Mother Found Felt Wife Daughter California Going Away

Author:Robert Benton

“Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous shudder at the possessive outrage done to a free solitary human soul?”

Way Humans Children Soul Done Mother Certain Felt Family Kissing Nervous Cheeks Solitary Strokes Human Soul Outrage Possessive

Author:John Cowper Powys

“Operation Peter Pan spanned from 1960-62 whereby over 14,000 children were sent away from their families in Cuba, some never to reunite again. Pan Am flights took the children to Miami FL, 'Never-Never Land', and the children became known as the 'Peter Pans.' I wrote this song for my daughter, and it is sung for all the daughters and mothers, fathers and brothers who felt this pain of separation all because of governments and their politics.”