Best mother & littles Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.”

Littles Said Used Mother Air Needed Draws Fingers Pencils

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.”

Feels Littles Said Kids Mother Odd

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“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

“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

“You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.”

Knows Littles Stills Mother Brother Little Brother My Little Brother

Author:Sam Raimi

“We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.”

Knows Littles Real Happens Young Mother Father Black Born Boys Issues Heard Serious Dad Young Women Serious Issues Black Boy

Author:Karrine Steffans

“After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad.”

Littles Book Done Mother Found Son Proud Died Mother Died

Author:Conrad Veidt

“You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.”

Feels Littles Helping Mother Bits Members Little Bit Casts Like A Mother Cast Members

Author:Julie Walters

“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

“A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'”

Men Littles Christian Mother Jesus Speak Christ Boys Morning Rose Christian Inspirational Ministers Sunday Hung Little Boys Pulpit Sunday Morning

Author:Vance Havner

“I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.”

People Mean Littles Kids Wanted America Used Mother Church Known Trouble Hero Used To Be Preacher Little Kid My Hero Goofy Murphy Imitating Coming To America Goofing Off

Author:Lamorne Morris

“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

“I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.”

Littles Mother Father Born Poor Poor Family

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“My dad left when I was a little boy and I grew up with my mother's family. There were foundations in the U.S. where Jewish people got together and sent money to Cuba, so we got some of that. We were a poor family, but I was always a happy kid.”

People Littles Kids Together Mother Left Poor Boys Grew Dad Grew Up Foundation My Dad Cuba Little Boys Poor Family Happy Kid

Author:William Levy

“I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.”

Littles Real Kids Mother Actors Company Theater Actresses Little Kid Cuba Default Miami Like Her

Author:Yul Vazquez

“I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.”

Trying Littles Mother Father Grew Grew Up Died Busy Open Minded Father Died My Father Died

Author:Sonia Braga

“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.”

“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

“Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.”

Should Littles Made Stills Mother Father Parent Half Generations Example Mom Dad Terrible Feminist Dinner Cooks Splits Household Chores Mom And Dad Household Chores

Author:Emily Oster

“The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.”

Years Littles Home Mother Left Term Secret Grew Grew Up Years Ago Extremes Bread Dirty Household Potatoes Cookies Rice Naughty Carbohydrates

Author:Ina Garten

“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

“I was Minnie Mouse for Halloween, every year when I was little. Then, I had the Cinderella nightgown, when I was really little, that I begged my mother to wear to school. I was also Snow White a lot.”

Years Littles School Mother White Snow Mice Halloween Snow White Minnie Minnie Mouse

Author:Sarah Silverman

“My father's a musician and my mother's a singer. My dad's originally from Brooklyn and he was a Latin percussionist so I've always had instruments around the house. He used to have a show like a 1950s rock and roll show with Little Richard music. They would do doo-wop songs and stuff like that.”

Littles Shows Used Mother Song Father House Stuff Rocks Dad Musician Instruments My Dad Singers Latin Rock And Roll Brooklyn

Author:Bruno Mars

“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

“The little boy who goes to the store and forgets what his mother sent him for, will probably grow up to be a congressman.”

Littles Mother Grows Forget Boys Growing Up Congress Stores Little Boys Congressman

Author:Evan Esar

“There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside that mother in pain, already beginning the birthing process. All around me there was darkness and perfect silence, except for the mother's pain. It was as if the war didn't exist in those hours.”

Ifs Littles War Light Pain Remember Mother Girl Process Hours Perfect Cities Silence Darkness Sitting Oil Pregnant Lamps Farming Spinning Barns Midwife Yarn Birthing Mares City Girl

Author:Diet Eman

“Father and Mother had told their own little lies very well, and I realized immediately that the Gerrisens didn't know a thing. And yet, my realization that they didn't know what I'd been through was like a cold shower for just a moment. Here I was looking at the first really familiar faces I'd seen in over a year, and they acted as though I'd merely been on vacation.”

Knows Years Firsts Wells Littles Moments Faces Lying Mother Father Cold I Realized Familiar Realization Vacation Showers Familiar Faces

Author:Diet Eman

“We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings.”

Love Looks Littles Earth Faces Mother Answers Yearning Mother Earth Little Women

Book:Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree. When my mother explained it, I kept after her: What are you saying? What do you mean? I couldn't believe it. It was astonishing. It was like--here's the man who makes all the trees. Then I wanted to be a writer, because, I suppose, it seemed the closest thing to being God.”

People Men Believe Mean Littles Book Facts Wanted Mother Five Tree He Man Six Manifestation Closest Astonishing

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.”

Littles Mother Teacher Dad My Dad Scripture Speakers Pastor

Author:Gloria Gaither

“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

“When tempted, the shortest and surest way is to act like a little child at the breast; when we show it a frightful monster, it shrinks back and buries its face in its mother's bosom, that it may no longer behold it.”

Way May Children Littles Shows Faces Mother Monsters Temptation Breasts Tempted Shrinks Bosoms

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.”

Thinking Mind Children Littles Ideas Mother Father Half Talking Saws Forgotten Neighbor Manifest Destroying Agnostic Here And There Bounty Dead Mother

Book:Winesburg, Ohio

Source: Winesburg, Ohio

“Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, "Mamma, mamma." You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc., If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.”

Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120

“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

“I'm working at trying to be a Christian and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddyit's serious business. It's not something where you think, Oh, I've got it done. I did it all day, hotdiggety. The truth is, all day long you try to do it, try to be it, and then in the evening if you're honest and have a little courage you look at yourself and say, Hmm. I only blew it eighty-six times. Not bad.”

“I've always loved books. My mother told me that before I could talk, I'd babble in my crib as I turned the pages of my little cloth books, apparently telling stories to go along with the pictures.”

Littles Book Stories Mother Pages Telling Stories

Author:JoAnn Ross

“Although the needs of babies have changed very little over the millennia, over the past decades, female equality in education and occupational opportunities has altered maternal expectations. This renders baby-care requirements discordant with ambition for many mothers, and produces heartfelt dilemmas for others.”

Needs Littles Care Past Mother Opportunity Changed Produce Baby Ambition Expectations Female Decades Requirements Dilemma Altered Over The Past Heartfelt

Author:Joan Raphael-Leff

“Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for him, and for the mother who is striving in this age of profusion to guard the innate simplicity of her child's nature, that I have written my little stories.”

Children Littles Stories Age Mother Love Is Written Mirrors Strive Simplicity Folks Delight Tales Familiar Fairy Innate Children Love

Book:A story garden for little children

Source: A story garden for little children

“A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'”

Ifs Children Littles Important Helping Might Mother Girl Asks Pleasure Clear Teacher Messages Busy Bother Puzzles Frustrating Request Important Work

Author:Daniel Goleman

“My comedic instinct, is a little bit more rooted in - my mother's British so I've always been more of the dry receiver of the crazy as opposed to the initiator of the crazy. I'm kind of predisposed to be the straight man.”

Men Kind Littles Mother Bits Crazy Little Bit Instinct British Dry Rooted Comedic Receiver

Author:Jason Bateman

“I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find him to be the most beautiful creature in the world. I know all mothers and fathers feel that way.”

Knows World Way Feels Littles Beautiful Mother Father Known Wonderful Lucky Creatures Romantic Love Mother And Father Beautiful Creatures

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“My daughter refuses to call me mother in public; my little grandson calls me Spongeslob Squarebottom, and nobody else ever calls me at all.”

Littles Mother Daughter Refuse My Daughter Call Me Grandson

Author:Joan Rivers

“Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.”

Knows Littles Kids Mother Water Half Boys Wet Daddy Skulls Little Boys Treading Treading Water

Book:Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

“I appreciate your giving my book -- and in no small way, me -- a chance. To thank you, I really wanted to acknowledge all of you in the book. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough room for each name. So I've put in a code name that stands for all of you reading this book. The name is 'Mom.' It will be our little secret. So when you see 'Mom' in the acknowledgments, you'll know I'm really talking about you. And don't let my mother try to tell you otherwise.”

Knows Way Giving Trying Littles Book Enough Wanted Mother Reading Names Chance Rooms Secret Talking Mom Appreciate Code Acknowledge Acknowledgment Appreciate You

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“My mother and my father had very, very strong Scots accents. We were Australian, and in those days when I was young, I spoke with a much more of an Australian accent than I have now. However I knew that if I went to England to become an actor, which I was determined to, I knew that I had to get rid of the Australian accent. We were colonials, we were Down Under somewhere, we were those little people Over There. But I was determined to become an Englishman. So I did.”

People Ifs Littles Young Mother Actors Father Strong England Determined Spokes Very Strong Accents Australian Englishmen Scots

Author:George Ogilvie

“Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.”

Children Littles Mother Sleep Rooms Air Scene Findings Our Children Errors Faults Your Children Sunshine Surroundings Confinement Good Nature Scolding Fault Finding

Author:Herbert Spencer

“Our children, Edward, Agnes, and little Mary, promise well; their education, for the time being, is chiefly committed to me; and they shall want no good thing that a mother's care can give. Our modest income is amply sufficient for our requirements; and by practising the economy we learnt in harder times, and never attempting to imitate our richer neighbours, we manage not only to enjoy comfort and contentment ourselves, but to have every year something to lay by for our children, and something to give to those who need it. And now I think I have said sufficient.”

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“I understand the sensitivities of grown children with little ones of their own!! They'll turn away a mother full of advice, but they'll never say no to one holding a mop.”

Children Littles Mother Turns Advice Sensitivity Grown Children

Author:Cathy Guisewite

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