Best mother & sides Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.”

Problem Mother Sides Advice My Friends Mum

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“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

“The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.”

“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”

“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

“I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.”

Mother Literature Sides Born Known My Family Ohio Cincinnati Ohio

Author:Kenneth Koch

“It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of continuing our conversation. It's also this Jewish thing of naming and remembering people, and I think there is a sense of keeping that side of life going.”

People Thinking Way Firsts Book Remember Mother Sides Alive Written Conversation My Way My Sister Continuing Sisters And Mothers

Author:Nigella Lawson

“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

“On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin.”

Mother Father Sides Polish Scottish Puffins

Author:Tamsin Greig

“I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.”

Way States Facts Mother Sides United United States Circumstances Offers Chiefs African American Indian Native Grandfather Native American Indian Chief

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“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

“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.”

“I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family.”

Mother Sides Harmonicas

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“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

“My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.”

Country Mother Father Sides Musician Western Singers Both Sides Bluegrass Country Western

Author:Brandi Carlile

“When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.”

Firsts Kind Book Mother Reading Sides Middle Summer Adults Library Lists Bored Grades Copies Frustrated Midnight Summer Reading

Author:Lauren DeStefano

“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

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