Best mother & has-beens Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.”

People Knows Writing Has Beens Mother Term Careers Influence Huge Grandmother My Grandmother Supportive Writing Life

Author:Tea Obreht

“Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened a long time ago. My mother was, I hope, not the reason that I have been successful. It's not as simplistic as 'My mum killed herself; I've got to prove myself.' I was very lucky that my parents took an interest in me...”

Long Has Beens Ends Reason Mother Parent Difficult Interest Successful Nice Happened Lucky Prove Long Time The End Of The Day Mum Long Time Ago Prove Myself Your Mum

Author:Stuart Rose

“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 Beens Able Mother Television Summer Rivers Window Very Good East Apartment

Author:Susan Sullivan

“My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.”

People Has Beens I Can Two Matter Mother Father Influence No Matter What Mother And Father

Author:Jack Wagner

“My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job, her family, and her community, and has been a role model of mine for many, many years. I'm extremely proud of her.”

Years Has Beens Jobs Mother Girl Three Winning Community Roles Mines Proud Models Journalist Role Models My Sister Dedication Exceptional Jennifer Emmys

Author:Ron Livingston

“My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.”

Humans Has Beens Mother Human Beings Advantage Doctors Oxford Undergraduate Women's Education

Author:Antonia Fraser

“A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”

Men Life Has Beens Feelings Mother Winning Self Esteem Self Respect Conqueror

Book:Letters of Sigmund Freud

Source: Letters of Sigmund Freud

“If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Feelings Mother Son Confidence My Son Darling Triumphant Mother And Son Mother Son Undisputed Mother Son Relationship

Author:Sigmund Freud

“But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father.”

Children Has Beens Mother Father

Book:The bad parents' garden of verse

Source: The bad parents' garden of verse

“Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.”

Ifs Men World Has Beens Political Mother Desire Culture Winning Situation Teach Survival Daughter Strategy Males Betray Hostile Mother Daughter Adrift

Author:Elizabeth Debold

“Of all the roles I've played, none has been as fulfilling as being a mother.”

Has Beens Mother Roles Mom Motherhood Fulfilling Being A Mother Happy Mothers Day

Author:Annette Funicello

“Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention; and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.”

Has Beens School Mother Difficulty Invention Facility

Book:Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct

Source: Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct

“Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.”

Thinking Way May Children Has Beens Seems Would Be Mother Father Family Boys Too Much Expecting Inadequate Mother Love Unloved

Author:Frank Pittman

“When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education”

Has Beens Ideas Mother Christianity Modern Motive Faculty Sentiments New Ideas Modern Education

Book:Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics

Source: Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics

“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.”

“My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The borders were changing. My dad brought over a large family of Shatners when he was very young. Scraped together the money, got 11 brothers and sisters a passage on the boat. There's a lot of Shatners in Montreal.”

Has Beens Together Young Mother Born Cities Brother Dad My Dad Boat Borders Germany Immigrants Passages Brothers And Sisters Could Have Been Poland Montreal Austria Large Family

Author:William Shatner

“My parents have a wonderful marriage, but they have been together since my mother was 12, married when they were just teenagers and are barely ever separated. They even work together. As a result, I have always thought of marriage as involving the loss of a certain amount of autonomy.”

Has Beens Together Mother Certain Parent Loss Results Wonderful Amount Married Teenager Working Together Autonomy Involving Wonderful Marriage

Author:Jessica Valenti

“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.”

Children Doe Has Beens Able Mother Courses Careers Blessed My Children Extras Procedures

Author:Cindy Margolis

“As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies”

Has Beens Mother Suffering Father My Own Party Solitude Sick Bitter Servant Chairs Abandoned Tied Agony Amused Perishing

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For what has been spoiled by the father can only be made good by a father, just as what has been spoiled by the mother can only be repaired by a mother. The disastrous repetition of the family pattern could be described as the psychological original sin, or as the curse of the Atrides running through the generations.”

Source: Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of psychic opposites in alchemy

“Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals.”

Has Beens Mother Nature Animal Stepmothers

Book:Thoughts on Art and Life:

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:

“We doubt not the destiny of our country that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.”

World Way Humans Has Beens Made Country Hard Mother Race Known Destiny Doubt Human Nature Accomplish Great Things Our Country Schemes Nativity

Book:Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

Source: Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke

“I was that kid. I was entertaining everybody in the living room and throwing myself down flights of stairs and making the family look special and making my mother feel better and I really wanted to make people happy. That has been my ministry my whole life. I call it The Church of F.F.C. - The Church of Freedom From Concern. And I'm a high priest in that church.”

People Feels Looks Has Beens Whole Kids Wanted Mother Church Rooms Special Concern Whole Life Flight Priests Throwing Entertaining Ministry Feel Better Stairs Living Room Making People Happy

Author:Jim Carrey

“Honor thy Father and thy Mother was once said, but then someone said: What if I don't know your Father? A still voice said: Does that makes him the devil? He is still someone's Father, his name has been changed, but his story is the same. Why hate when we should Celebrate. In this world of two's, you got the Mourning Son, and the Daughter of the Night. They both equal light once you make it through the night. Now, wake the funk up!”

Ifs Knows World Should Doe Has Beens Said Stills Two Stories Light Mother Night Hate Father Names Voice This World Changed Son Honor Equal Daughter Devil Celebrate Mourning What If Funk

Author:Bootsy Collins

“No artist's masterpiece can match a mother's creation of a successful child, one who has been freed to explore and to grow. ... Success is measured not only by who we are, but by what gifts we give. As the old chief said, "The gift is not complete until it is given again." Ah, the mother whose gift to the world is a person !”

World Giving Children Persons Has Beens Said Mother Artist Given Grows Successful Creation Chiefs Who We Are Masterpiece Success Is Measured

Book:Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century

“Surely it is a matter of joy, that your faith in Jesus has been preserved; the Comforter that should relieve you is not far from you. But as you are a Christian, in the name of that Saviour, who was filled with bitterness and made druken with wormwood, I conjre you to have recourse in frequent prayer to 'his God and your God,' the God of mercies, and father of all comfort. Your poor father is, I hope, almost senseless of the calamity; the unconscious instrument of Divine Providence knows it not, and your mother is in heaven.”

Source: The Letters of Charles Lamb: To which are Added Those of His Sister, Mary Lamb. Edited by E.V. Lucas

“[Aristotle] was the most eminent of all the pupils of Plato.... He seceded from Plato while he was still alive; so that they tell a story that [Plato] said, " Aristotle has kicked us off, just as chickens do their mother after they have been hatched.”

Has Beens Said Stills Stories Mother Alive Chickens Plato Pupils

Author:Plato

“The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.”

Has Beens Mother Moral Blood Forgotten Feminist Goddess Blades Ambivalence Great Mother

Book:Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism

“I am tired of the warmakers making war with our children. I am tired of our tired troops being sent over to do the dirty work for mob bosses who are going to squeeze the life out of Iraq and not leave until every asset and every natural resource has been raped from the country. I am tired of seeing Iraqis burying their loved ones and hearing the reverberating screams of mothers all over our country who are being destroyed for the benefit of a very few.”

“If only Ed Fleming had a mother who gave such sound advice. The manager of Wazoo's, a downtown Denver restaurant, Fleming is a CSU alum who has been darned giddy about the Rams' recent success. So giddy that he donned a necklace made of Pez candies, a red blazer - and nothing else. A few people gaped (some actually set aside their beers), but most ignored Fleming as he strutted like a red-blazered rooster, demanding that all hail the Mighty Naked Beer King.”

People Ifs Has Beens Made Mother Sound Advice Kings Red Naked Managers Beer Restaurants Ignored Candy Hail Downtown Necklaces Denver Giddy Rams Roosters Blazers Pez Sound Advice

Author:J. R. Moehringer

“Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder.”

Children Has Beens Real Mother Parent Abuse Murder Jail Child Abuse Mother Nature Real Parents

Author:Nick Bostrom

“Spending the day with you has been marginally better than watching mother die of cancer.”

Has Beens Mother Dies Cancer Spending

Author:Arthur M. Jolly

“Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed--its first victims are those who harbour the feeling.”

Firsts Has Beens War Feelings Mother Passion Tragedy Murder Victim Jealousy Harbour

Author:Arthur Alfred Lynch

“A lot has been said about single mothers. Most of it has been less than flattering.”

Has Beens Said Mother Flattering Single Mother

Author:Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

“My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Lasts Mother Behavior Rational Last Year

Book:Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

Source: Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir

“I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'”

Ifs Men Years Mean Has Beens Said Jobs Mother Literature Gone College Summer Old Man Flash Juniors August Junior Year

Author:Chris Matthews

“May I say to mothers collectively, in the name of the Lord, you are magnificent. You are doing terrifically well. The very fact that you have been given such a responsibility is everlasting evidence of the trust your Father in Heaven has in you.”

Wells May Has Beens Facts Mother Father Names Given Heaven Responsibility Lord Evidence Magnificent Everlasting Father In Heaven

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“My father has been the real anchor of the family. Hes the one who has always encouraged my mother, my brother and me.”

Has Beens Real Mother Father Brother My Brother Anchors

Author:Yvette Clarke

“It's always seemed to me that black people's grace has been with what they do with language. In Lorrain, Ohio, when I was a child, I went to school with and heard the stories of Mexicans, Italians, and Greeks, and I listened. I remember their language, and a lot of it is marvelous. But when I think of things my mother or father or aunts used to say, it seems the most absolutely striking thing in the world.”

People Thinking World Children Has Beens Stories Seems School Remember Used Mother Father Language Black Grace Heard Greek Black People Marvelous Aunt Ohio

Author:Toni Morrison

“But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.”

Mind Firsts Has Beens Body Mother

Book:Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

Source: Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution

“You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.”

Giving Firsts Kind Has Beens Mother My Own Attention Planning Generosity Resolve Cabinets Anna

Book:The Letters of Jane Austen

Source: The Letters of Jane Austen

“The only options open for girls then were of course mother, secretary or teacher. At least that's what we all thought and were preparing ourselves for. Now, I must say how lucky we are, as women, to live in an age where 'Dental Hygienist' has been added to the list.”

Has Beens Age Mother Girl Courses Teacher Lucky Lists Secretary Preparing Dental Dental Hygienists

Author:Roseanne Barr

“I think it's easier to play when you do have a balanced home. I think if I did have alcoholism in my personal life, or my mother, or somebody close to me, it might have been much more uncomfortable to get in there.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Play Home Might Mother Easier Uncomfortable Balanced Personal Life Might Have Been Alcoholism

Author:Angelina Jolie

“My mother was a gypsy, and she had a lot of dark blood in her, and her hair was very, very thick - she couldn't even get a brush through it. So I have been very fortunate. And every time I go to cut it off, hairdressers refuse to do it.”

Has Beens Mother Dark Cutting Blood Hair Refuse Fortunate Thick Brushes Gypsy Hairdresser

Author:Robert Plant

“First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.”

Firsts Has Beens Mother Perfect Wife Expected First Lady

Book:First Lady from Plains

Source: First Lady from Plains

“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory - there will be a garden where all of us as one child will sleep in our mother Eve, hooped in her ribs and staved by her spine.”

Firsts Children Has Beens Lasts Mother Time Force Memories Sleep Behinds Known Events Movement Return Garden Brilliant Mourning Prophecy Reconciliation Spine Ribs Expulsion

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“No companion however wise, no friend however useful, can be to me what my mother has been: her image will long pursue my fancy; her voice for ever hang in my ears: may her precepts but sink into my heart!”

Heart May Long Has Beens Mother Voice Wise My Heart Ears Pursue Fancy Companion No Friends

Book:The letters of Mrs. Thrale

Source: The letters of Mrs. Thrale

“Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been prescribed by a predominantly masculine society. Per se it is accorded no respect whatever. When it results from a sexual relationship which has been duly sanctioned by organized society, it is holy, no matter how much it may transgress the rules of decency, health, or common sense. Otherwise it is a sin meriting social ostracism for the mother and obloquy for the child - an ostracism and obloquy, significantly enough, in which the father does not share.”

“the patriarchal family, with its division of functions between a providing and protective father and a home-making, submissive mother, however satisfactory it may have been in its time, has outlived its day. Bread-winning is no longer a monopoly of men, and home-making should no longer be the monopoly of women.”

Men Should May Has Beens Home Mother Father Winning Function Bread Division Providing Patriarchy Monopoly Protective Submissive

Book:Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

“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.”

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