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“I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deeply in love with my father, and he died when I was nine. She remarried, and her second husband died, too. I saw the grieving process she went through. My mother had this way of moving on. It was a fine trait.”

Way Should Trying Believe Moving Mother Father Process Saws Regret Fine Husband Died Don't Believe Nine Grieving Traits Mum Deeply In Love Grieving Process

Author:Robert Winston

“Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in a nursing home? You and your spouse already have two kids; should you have a third?such decisions are hard for a number of reasons. For one the stakes are high. There's also a great deal of uncertainty involved. Above all, decisions like these are rare, which means you don't get much practice making them. You've probably gotten good at buying groceries, since you do it so often, but buying your first house is another thing entirely.”

“I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.”

Should Law Mother Given Pleasure Brain Good Day In-laws Recollection Mother In Law

Book:Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Oh, nice one, honey. Yes. Clever. That's becoming quite a familiar quotation in its own right, isn't it? Maybe I should just add it to the next edition. 'Mother was right.' Author: Mrs. Bartlett, world-renowned nag. Year: 1859. Attribution: A short play entitled Every Goddamn Weekend!”

World Should Years Play Mother Next Nice Becoming Add Clever Familiar Honey Weekend Entitled Quotations Renowned Attribution World Renowned

Author:John Bartlett

“Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.”

Should Mother Courses Grief Darkness Impossible Possibility Deny Grieving Rebirth Transforming Radiant Old Life

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“The adoration of Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament is the end of the Church Militant, just as adoration of God in His glory is the end of the Church Triumphant. A holy rivalry, a concert of prayer, a harmony of divine service should exist between the heavenly court and the Eucharistic court here below, between the adorer and his mother the Church.”

“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

“Partial-birth abortion, I think that's going to be upheld. I think that ban is going to be upheld. I think it should be. And I think, as long as there's provision for the life of the mother, then that's something that should be done.”

Thinking Should Long Done Mother Birth Abortion Provision Bans

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.”

Men Should Looks Two Mother Father Hours Died Merry Father Died My Father Died

Book:Hamlet: Revised Edition

Source: Hamlet: Revised Edition

“Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.”

Should Mother President Dance Ballerina

Author:Chita Rivera

“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

“And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This the good Queen Blanche did most earnestly by St. Louis, her son: witness her oft-repeated words, "My son, I would sooner see you die than guilty of a mortal sin;" words which sank so deeply into the saintly monarch's heart, that he himself said there was no day on which they did not recur to his mind, and strengthen him in treading God's ways.”

Way Should Mind Heart Children Said Reason Use Pain Mother Dies Father Sin Son Guilty Witness Mortals Queens My Son Monarchs Treading Mortal Sin Blanche

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Perhaps the profession of doing good may be full, but every body should be kind at least to himself. Take a course of good water and air, and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you. Some have strange, morbid fears as soon as they find themselves with Nature, even in the kindest and wildest of her solitudes, like very sick children afraid of their mother-as if God were dead and the devil were king.”

Source: STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California

“I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.”

People Feels Should Humans Important Earth Mother Rocks Planets Harmony Mother Earth Format Save Mother Earth

Author:Jimmy Carl Black

“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

“I would take school instruction out of the hands of the old order of decrepit, stammering, journeymen-teachers as well as from the new weak ones, who are generally no better for popular instruction, and entrust it to the undivided powers of Nature herself, to the light that God kindles and ever keeps alive in the hearts of fathers and mothers, to the interest of parents who desire that their children should grow up in favour with God and man.”

“My mother took too much, a great deal too much, care of me; she over-educated, over-instructed, over-dosed me with premature lessons of prudence: she was so afraid that I should ever do a foolish thing, or not say a wise one, that she prompted my every word, and guided my every action. So I grew up, seeing with her eyes, hearing with her ears, and judging with her understanding, till, at length, it was found out that I had not eyes, ears or understanding of my own.”

Source: Works of Maria Edgeworth: Tales of fashionable life. 1826.- -v. 7. Patronage. 1825

“We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change implanted in the young. It seems as if the eternal Lawgiver intended that, at a certain age, man should leave father, mother, and the dwelling of his infancy, to seek his fortunes over the wide world.”

Ifs Men World Should Believe Seems Age Young Mother Certain Father Position Eternal Fortune Wide Providence Globes Destined Dwelling Infancy Father Mother

Book:Lodore

Source: Lodore

“"You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision." [...] "The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her mesenger," Okonkwo said. "A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm."”

Ifs Should Children Said Earth Mother Dies Asks Sound Decision Pieces Authority Hot Fingers Ask Me Should I Palms Obeying Oracles Things Fall Apart Okonkwo Yams Okonkwo

Author:Chinua Achebe

“What I do for living, working on something called string theory which we think may answer the fundamental question: Are there other universes? Can you go through a black hole? Can you warp the fabric of space and time and meet your mother before you were born? These are all questions that in principle string theory should be able to answer.”

Thinking Should May Able Mother Universe Black Born Space Answers Principles Theory Fundamentals Holes Strings Fabric Time And Space Black Hole Warp String Theory

Author:Michio Kaku

“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

“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

“[Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children'.”

People Ifs Men Should Children Care Mother Father Community Answers Middle Should Have Responsible Comment Bores Looking Good Middle Aged Child Care

Author:Margaret Mead

“When Christ was about to leave the world, He made His will. His soul He committed to His father; His body He bequeathed to Joseph to be decently interred; His clothes fell to the soldiers; His mother He left to the care of John; but what should He leave to His poor disciples that had left all for Him? Silver and gold He had none; but He left them that which was infinitely better, His peace.”

World Should Made Soul Body Care Mother Father Left Peace Christ Poor Clothes Gold Soldier Committed Silver Disciple

Book:Bible commentary - Gospel of John

Source: Bible commentary - Gospel of John

“I feel like there are women who are genuinely born to be mothers, and women who are born to be aunties, and women who really probably not should be allowed near children. The tragedy that happens is when any one of those women ends up in the wrong category.”

Feels Should Children Ends Happens Mother Born Tragedy Categories

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.”

Should Mother Church Mouths Queens Nursing

Book:Letters of John Calvin

Source: Letters of John Calvin

“Rock and roll is a music, and why should a music contribute to ... juvenile delinquency? If people are going to be juvenile delinquents, they're going to be delinquents if they hear ... Mother Goose rhymes.”

People Ifs Should Mother Rocks Rock And Roll Rhyme Geese Juvenile Delinquents Delinquency Juvenile Delinquency Mother Goose

Author:Elvis Presley

“A great need a mother has to know that her daughters will find somebody or will be okay in life. That's very primal as they get older. You know, you should get married, you should have children.”

Knows Needs Should Children Mother Married Daughter Should Have Okay Primal

Author:Christine Baranski

“17,000 children starve on this planet every single day. That fact alone should blow any conscious person out of their chair. You know, my mother used to say that a woman’s most important job is taking care of her children and her home. I laughed at that when I was younger, but I don’t laugh at it anymore. I just realize now that every child on the planet is one of our children, and the earth itself is our home.”

Knows Should Children Persons Important Facts Home Care Earth Jobs Used Mother Realizing Laughing Planets Conscious Our Children Blow Chairs Laughed Important Jobs

Author:Marianne Williamson

“When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.”

People Way Feels Should Mother Sides Teacher Equal Authority One Way

Author:Maya Angelou

“The tendency to superstitions should be counteracted from the earliest age; or rather steps should be taken to protect the mind of the child from superstitions imposed upon it by ignorant nurses or silly mothers.”

Should Mind Children Age Mother Steps Taken Protect Silly Ignorant Tendencies Nurse Superstitions

Author:Arthur Alfred Lynch

“What! I should call on that Infinite Love that has served us so well? Infinite cruelty rather, that made everlasting hell, Made us, foreknew us, foredoom'd us, and does what he will with his own; Better our dead brute mother who never has heard us groan.”

Should Wells Doe Made Mother Hell Heard Atheism Infinite Cruelty Everlasting Brutes Infinite Love

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“Motherhood is so honorable a thing that nothing - no convention - can possibly make it dishonorable; and from the standpoint of the right of the child . . . the unmarried mother should be granted by society the same reverence and regard as the married mother.”

Should Children Mother Married Regard Motherhood Granted Conventions Reverence Honorable Standpoint Unmarried Dishonorable

Author:Ben Lindsey

“The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.”

Source: Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series

“I should like to be a full-time Mother and a full-time Artist and a full-time Wife-Companion and also a 'Charming Woman' on the side! And to be aware and record it all. I cannot do it all. Something must go - several things probably. The 'charming woman' first!”

Should Firsts Mother Artist Sides Records Wife Companion Charming Charming Woman Full Time Mother

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“Why should we not pray to our mother who are in heaven, as well as to our father?”

Should Wells God Mother Father Heaven Praying Our Father

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“The great constructive energies of the child ... have hitherto been concealed beneath an accumulation of ideas concerning motherhood. We used to say it was the mother who formed the child; for it is she who teaches him to walk, talk, and so on. But none of this is really done by the mother. It is an achievement of the child. What the mother brings forth is the baby, but it is the baby who produces the man. Should the mother die, the baby still grows up and completes his work of making the man.”

Men Should Children Stills Ideas Done Used Mother Dies Energy Grows Growth Walks Teach Growing Up Produce He Man Baby Achievement Motherhood Constructive Accumulation Concealed

Author:Maria Montessori

“The death of my mother permanently affects my happiness, more even than I should have anticipated, though I always knew that I must feel the separation at first as a severe wrench. But I did not apprehend, during her life, to what a degree she prevented me from feeling heart-solitude.”

Feels Should Firsts Heart Feelings Mother Solitude Degrees Should Have Separation Severe Wrenches

Book:Memoir and Letters

Source: Memoir and Letters

“All mothers love their own children as best they can, according to their temperament and circumstances, and all mothers should have done better, in their children's eyes, when the going gets tough for the children.”

Should Children Done Eye Mother Circumstances Tough Should Have Temperament Mother Love Going Gets Tough

Author:Fay Weldon

“When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.”

Should Mind Mother Born Shame Humble Be Good Our Thoughts

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.”

Knows Should Wells Enough Mother Born Half Talking Boys Baby Importance Filled Tired Intellect Nonsense Happy Life Infant Conceit Talking Nonsense

Author:Augustus William Hare

“A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life.”

Should Looks Kind Facts Mother Girl Social Causes Birth Disease Shadow Acknowledge Hypocrisy Enlightened Facts Of Life Birth Control Impunity Unmarried

Book:A Matter of Life and Death

Source: A Matter of Life and Death

“The young man who wants to marry happily should pick out a good mother and marry one of her daughters - any one will do.”

Men Want Should Young Mother Marriage Picks Daughter Young Man Good Mother

Author:J. Ogden Armour

“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

“So yeah, anyway - I'm thirty-four and my mother is desperate for me to get married. She thinks settling down is what you should be doing at thirty-four. How would she like it if I turned to her the day she hits eighty and said: 'Hey, Mum - when are you going to break your hip? All your friends are breaking theirs'?”

Ifs Thinking Should Said Mother Marriage Break Four Married Yeah Hey Hips Settling Thirty Desperate Mum Eighty Settling Down

Author:Sue Margolis

“claims about what's 'natural' have long been used to reinforce traditional gender roles and values. ... Even the notion that women should have children at all is based on the idea that a woman's inherent and most important role is that of mother. Shockingly, men's 'innate' roles are a lot more fun than the ones bestowed on women.”

Men Should Children Long Important Ideas Used Mother Values Fun Natural Roles Should Have Claims Notion Gender Traditional Sexism Inherent Innate Gender Roles

Author:Jessica Valenti

“I chose to be a working wife and mother. Why should I compromise on either?”

Should Mother Wife Compromise Should I Wives And Mothers

Author:Chanda Kochhar

“Is it to be imagined ... that women were made for no other purpose than to fabricate sweetmeats and gingerbread, construct shirts, darn stockings, and become mothers of possible presidents? Assuredly not. Should the women of America ever discover what their power might be, and compare it with what it is, much improvement might be hoped for.”

Should Made Might America Mother Purpose Women President Improvement Compare Shirts Sexism Constructs T Shirt Stockings Fabricate Gingerbread

Book:Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume

Source: Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume

“Even today . . . experts, usually male, tell women how to be mothers and warn them that they should not have children if they have any intention of leaving their side in their early years. . . . Children don't need parents' full-time attendance or attention at any stage of their development. Many people will help take care of their needs, depending on who their parents are and how they chose to fulfill their roles.”

People Ifs Needs Should Years Children Helping Care Today Mother Parent Sides Attention Roles Stage Development Intention Males Leaving Take Care Experts Attendance

Author:Stella Chess

“We, who have had tender, perfect mothers, would like to make it law that the other kind should always be called 'she-parents,' or 'female progenitors,' or any other descriptive title, but not profane the sacred name of mother!”

Should Kind Law Mother Names Parent Perfect Female Sacred Titles Profane

Book:The Rosary: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: The Rosary: Easyread Comfort Edition