“I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.” MotherFatherIssuesSourceAbandonment Author:Kenny Loggins
“Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle.” MenWorldFirstsLooksChildrenEyeMotherPassionSpeakUnderstandingStepsWatchesStruggleStudyExampleSourceArmsHabitFirst TimePrejudiceMirrorsStrikesHis EyesCradleBack In TimeWrappingPower Of ThoughtUnclear Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“A mother who is not everything for her children: a friend, a teacher, a confidant, a source of joy and founded pride, inducement and soothing, reconciliator, judge and forgiver, that mother obviously chose the wrong job.” ChildrenJobsJoyMotherTeacherJudgingSourcePrideSoothingConfidantWrong Job Author:Joseph Goebbels
“This was one of the greatest test of his faith he had ever experienced. The thought of deceiving the kind and faithful wife of his youth... was more than he felt able to bear.... his sorrow and misery were increased by the thought of my mother hearing it from some other source, which would no doubt separate them, and he shrank from the thought of such a thing, or of causing her any unhappiness.” KindAbleMotherFeltDoubtWifeYouthSourceBearsSorrowTestsMiseryHearingFaithfulNo DoubtUnhappinessDeceivingPolygamyFaithful Wife Author:Orson F. Whitney
“When I hear the deepest truths I speak coming out of my mouth sounding like my mother's, even remembering how I fought against her, I have to reassess both our relationship as well as the sources of my knowing.” WellsRememberMotherSpeakKnowingSourceMouthsComing OutOur Relationship Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“We must understand that the fact of error, demonstrated in subsequent work, does not suggest that ethical lapses are responsible. It is more likely that the source of error is, as the advertisement says, a reflection of the fact that "its dangerous to trifle with Mother Nature".” DoeFactsMotherDangerousSourceReflectionResponsibleErrorsEthicalTriflesMother NatureAdvertisementsLapses Author:Lewis M. Branscomb
“My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world.” WorldFeelsPersonsHomeMotherSource Author:Daphne Merkin
“However patriarchal the world, at home the child knows that his mother is the source of all power. The hand that rocks the cradlerules his world. . . . The son never forgets that he owes his life to his mother, not just the creation of it but the maintenance of it, and that he owes her a debt he cannot conceivably repay, but which she may call in at any time.” KnowsWorldMayChildrenHomeHandsMotherForgetRocksCreationSonSourceDebtNever ForgetMaintenance Author:Frank Pittman