Best mother & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.”

Ifs Want Giving Years Young Mother Chance Pay Four Taxes Prison Horrible Four Years Contributors

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.”

Ifs Want Years Said Stories Age Remember Mother Simple Rooms Fronts Tvs Mom Conversation My Mom Watching Tv

Author:Derek Luke

“There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.”

Ifs Mean Enough Bigs Mother Fairs Introducing Misconception Arranged Marriage

Author:Archie Panjabi

“I think my mother would be very happy if I found a nice Welsh girl.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Mother Girl Found Nice Very Happy Welsh

Author:Matthew Rhys

“If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle class. My mother and father were separated, so he doesn't count.”

Ifs Mother Father Class Middle My Family Middle Class Mother And Father

Author:Dave Van Ronk

“I find being a mother is a huge advantage. Of course, I'm probably a little more tired than I might be if I didn't have children, but I think they provide me the balance that I need to keep my mind off of lifting.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Mind Children Littles Might Mother Courses Huge Balance Advantage Tired Lifting Being A Mother

Author:Melanie Roach

“When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."”

Ifs Knows Said Mother Eight Mum God Knows No Hope God Knows Everything

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.”

Ifs Long Mother Middle Climate Tendencies Australia Consumption

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.”

Ifs Needs Children Mother Speak Language Community Work Out Tongue Locals My Children Beneficial Pubs Cafes Welsh Mother Tongue

Author:Bryn Terfel

“The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.”

Ifs Mother Fall Pieces Plans Advice Sticks Fall Back Plan B

Author:Zoe Tapper

“Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Looks Children Important Home Mother Asks Parent Emotional Depends Picks Fulfilled Stay At Home Emotional Life Plath

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I wonder if that's the difference between fathers and mothers. I'm friends with people who have kids that are like 5 and under, and they're still in that intense mother-bonding phase. It might just be that. Because the dads haven't changed.”

People Ifs Stills Might Kids Mother Father Differences Wonder Havens Changed Dad Intense Phases Bonding

Author:Jen Kirkman

“A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative hints about it as you go along so that you don't end up with the entire explanation all in one place. This keeps you from skidding to a stop and sounding teacherish. Otherwise it's better to omit the obscure topic altogether, or as mothers might put it: if you can't say it interestingly, don't say it at all.”

Ifs Writing Ends Might Mother Explanation Obscure Topics Hints Cardinals Informative Cardinal Rules

Author:Florence King

“You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.”

Ifs Mother Mom Evidence Sanity Rebellious Knuckleheads

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“If you look at the 9/11 highjackers, certainly they were educated, some even had university degrees, but nobody really checked their mothers, who were nearly all illiterate.”

Ifs Looks Mother Degrees University Educated Illiterate University Degrees

Author:Greg Mortenson

“If I could, I would have my son on tour the whole time. But he has school, summer camp, and he has to see his mother.”

Ifs Whole School Mother Son Summer If I Could My Son Camps Summer Camp

Author:Nate Mendel

“I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was from Southern Virginia. They migrated to Washington and I wouldn't even exist if it were not for that migration. And I brought her back to Georgia, both my parents, actually.”

Ifs Mean Mother Father Parent Mets Southern Rome Virginia Georgia Migration Airmen

Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.”

Ifs Way Littles Mother Found Father Speak Voice Heard Brother Quiet Best Way Shut Up Older Brother Little Sister

Author:Peter Welch

“My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of the night. She said she wanted me to know that even if I was hurt, I was still fine.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Made Said Stills Running Wanted Mother Night Hurt Broken Fine Injury Toes Lap I Was Hurt

Author:Ronda Rousey

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Might Able Mother Father Forget Brother Treats Forgiving Honestly Treated Adversaries Grudge Older Brother

Author:Monte Irvin

“For a Jewish mother, having a country wage war on your son is the worst. If Kim Jong-un only knew what he was doing to my mother!”

Ifs War Country Mother Worst Son Kim Your Son Jewish Mother

Author:Seth Rogen

“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

“My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.”

Ifs Writing Mother Song Games Decided

Author:R. Kelly

“My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you've listened to them carefully and you still think that you're right, then you must have the courage of your convictions.”

People Ifs Thinking Stills Important Mother Taught Agree Important Things Conviction Taught Us

Author:Jane Goodall

“I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?”

Ifs Men Years Young Mother Fighting Son Burden Young Man My Son Tempted Eighteen Tempting Eighteen Years Old

Author:Nadine Labaki

“I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?”

Ifs World Years Reason Happens Would Be Mother Religious Strange Mom Atheist My Mom Nine Nine Years

Author:Tarsem Singh

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Stills I Can Feelings Pain Mother Can Do Sleep Forget Levels Brain Empowerment Function Incredibles Scary Vocabulary Being A Mother Grumpy

Author:Anna Friel

“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

“Your Nafs is just like a suckling child. If you do not take the pains to wean him, he will yearn for his mother's breast even when he's grown up. Therefore you should not try to satisfy your lust by indulging in sins. This will only increase the desire for more sins. The same is the case with the disease of gluttony. The more a person eats, the more his hunger increases.”

Ifs Should Trying Children Persons Wisdom Pain Mother Desire Sin Cases Disease Increase Hunger Lust Islamic Breasts Gluttony Nafs

Author:Busiri

“If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity... We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?”

“I respect every mother and I believe people are entitled to use whatever benefits, claims and entitlements, if you like, that are available to them”

People Ifs Believe Use Mother I Believe Benefits Claims Available Entitled Entitlement

Author:Chris Bowen

“I'm thinking about anything and everything. I'm making stuff up in my head, I'm using sense memory. Sometimes when it doesn't come and you've got no choice because you're getting paid to do it, you grasp at straws. It's always easy now with my kids. I just create some "what-ifs" in my head, something horrible that would devastate me as a mother.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Kids Mother Choices Easy Stuff Memories Paid Horrible Straws Anything And Everything

Author:Vera Farmiga

“Then, there's the modern mother-in-law. In her mid 40s, she is the compact car of her breed: efficient, trim, attractive and in harmony with her times. She's pretty stiff competition for the plain young matron who's overweight and under-financed. If there is going to be friction in this relationship, it could start from envy and resentment in the younger woman. But Father Time is on her side, even if Mother Nature played her a dirty trick”

“Virtue is the nursing-mother of all human pleasures, who, in rendering them just, renders them also pure and permanent; in moderating them, keeps them in breath and appetite; in interdicting those which she herself refuses, whets our desires to those that she allows; and, like a kind and liberal mother, abundantly allows all that nature requires, even to satiety, if not to lassitude.”

Ifs Humans Kind Mother Desire Pleasure Virtue Pure Breaths Refuse Permanent Appetite Nursing Rendering Satiety

Author:Socrates

“I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted.”

“I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.”

Ifs Children Made Mother Sides Dark Concentration Camps Locks Closets Being Afraid Concentration Camp

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.”

“When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think of all the Chinese children who have nothing to eat.' But now, for my children, Chinese people make everything, and for my grandchildren, they buy everything.”

People Ifs Thinking Children Littles Mother Girl Chinese My Children Soup Grandchildren My Grandchildren

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“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

“If my mother hadn't thrown my football boots on the fire, I might have become as famous as Denis Compton.”

Ifs Might Mother Fire Football Thrown Boots Compton

Author:Len Hutton

“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.”

Ifs World Should Self Kids Mother Boys Aspect Ideals Decided Baseball Idealism Circus Self Centered Backyards Grandpa Ideal World

Author:Norman Rockwell

“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.”

“How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.”

Ifs Children Matter Mother Language Mom Conversation Outcomes What Matters Infant Initiate

Author:Po Bronson

“If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.”

Ifs Mother Father Poverty Crime Stupidity

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don't keep her in the living room.”

Ifs Eye Law Mother Rooms In-laws Foreheads Living Room Mother In Law

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. My folks were Indian. Both my mother and father had Cherokee blood in them. I was born and raised in Indian Territory. 'Course we're not the Americans whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, but we met them at the boat when they landed.”

Ifs Running Mother Courses Father Born Blood Mets Diversity Raised Folks Track Boat Indian Territory Ancestor Mother And Father Born And Raised Right Track Cherokee Mayflower

Author:Will Rogers

“I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.”

Ifs Mother Support Gone

Author:Patsy Cline

“I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands a child as well as his mother, and children are so different that they need individual training and study. A teacher with a roomful of pupils cannot do this. At home, too, they are in their mothers care. She can keep them from learning immoral things from other children.”

Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks

“I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.”

Ifs Hard Wisdom America Mother Doubt Determined Checks Ambitious Elephants Charging Rhinos

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

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