Best mother & thinking Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think once you're a mother to one, you're a mother to them all.”

“I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.”

Thinking Mind Eye Past Mother Gone Spring Crosses Edges Lovely Fleeting Luminous Cardinals

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.”

Thinking Trying Remember Mother Found Sick Journal

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.”

Thinking Mother Nuclear Traditional Good Mother Nuclear Families

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“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

“One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.”

Thinking Firsts Persons Said Lasts Mother Chance Sorry Unfair Exes First Person Ex Boyfriend Your Ex

Author:Lily Rabe

“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

“There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.”

Thinking Humans Kind Use Mother Human Beings Mistake Understood All Kinds Labels

Author:Phylicia Rashad

“I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.”

Thinking Mind Wells Care Mother Father

Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“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

“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've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.”

Thinking Mind Looks Mother Dad Comfort Bored Dozen Hung Suspicious Of My Mind Playgrounds Disapproving Single Dad

Author:Dominic West

“Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.”

Thinking Said Play Mother Interesting Roles Exciting Deeper Teenager

Author:Naomi Watts

“For most mothers, vaccinations become a matter of faith - faith in pharmaceutical companies, faith in public health officials - and I think there's been an erosion of faith.”

Thinking Matter Mother Company Officials Public Health Pharmaceutical Erosion Vaccinations Pharmaceutical Companies

Author:Paul A. Offit

“The mother is the one who is going to help you in the long run! You must make her your friend. It matters what she thinks.”

Thinking Long Matter Helping Running Mother Long Runs

Author:Sofia Vergara

“I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl.”

Thinking Wells Enough Mother Girl Born Creativity Lucky Piano Fairy Lazy Call Me Nuts Glitter Dressed Up Louisiana Plantations Rebecca

Author:Rebecca Wells

“I think 'The Lord Of The Rings' is the mother of all cult books, because you can be in that cult and not even know you're in it.”

Thinking Knows Book Mother Lord Rings Cult

Author:Markus Zusak

“It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.”

Thinking Writing Believe Wells Hard Mother Night Games Interest Imagination Careers College Serious Pursuit My Sister Every Night Make Believe Playing Make Believe

Author:Sara Zarr

“People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.”

People Thinking Mother Singing Chasing Womb Pavement

Author:Adele

“I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.”

People Thinking Knows Years Happens Kids Mother Father Parent Understanding Rights Separation Whatever Happens

Author:Dwyane Wade

“In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories.”

Thinking Stories Dream Remember Mother Song Dies Born Sleep Growing Broken Bed Shadow Roots Healed Old Song Sleep And Dream Broken Images

Author:Meinrad Craighead

“The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction.”

Thinking Mother Inaction

Author:Iimani David

“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

“Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence.”

People Thinking Enough Young Mother Speak Sex Love Making Away From Love

Author:Madame de La Fayette

“When you become a mother, you think less about yourself and care more about the world.”

Thinking World Care Mother About Yourself

Author:Natalia Vodianova

“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 think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.”

Thinking Two Book Mother Company Shapes Ships Auditors

Book:Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond

Source: Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond

“I think my mother was always worried about me when she was alive.”

Thinking Mother Alive Worried

Author:Martha Wainwright

“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

“My mother is somebody who I think of as having just an intense close focus. She's somebody who really can pay very, very close attention to the thing she's focusing on for a very long period of time, and that has served her incredibly well in her professional career. She knows - the things she knows, she knows them just so deeply.”

Thinking Knows Wells Long Mother Pay Attention Careers Focus Periods Intense Long Periods Of Time Professional Career

Author:David Plotz

“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

“I spent a lot of time reading blogs by mothers who had children with varying degrees of neural dysfunction, from schizophrenia to all sorts of different issues. And honestly, I don't think it's different for anybody. There's no right way to make sure your child will be emotionally and mentally healthier. It's just frustrating.”

Thinking Way Children Different Mother Reading Issues Degrees Our Children Honestly Your Children Right Way Frustrating Blogs Schizophrenia Dysfunction

Author:Vera Farmiga

“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

“I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.”

Thinking Wells Children Mother Father Sin Virtue Written

Author:Charles Dickens

“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

“Mother love has been much maligned. An over mothered boy may go through life expecting each new woman to love him the way his mother did. Her love may make any other love seem inadequate. But an unloved boy would be even more likely to idealize love. I don't think it's possible for a mother or father to love a child too much.”

Thinking Way May Children Has Beens Seems Would Be Mother Father Family Boys Too Much Expecting Inadequate Mother Love Unloved

Author:Frank Pittman

“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.”

“At work, you think of the children you have left at home. At home, you think of the work you've left unfinished. Such a struggle is unleashed within yourself. Your heart is rent.”

“Who can justly say aught against Joseph Smith? I was as well acquainted with him, as any man. I do not believe that his father and mother knew him any better than I did. I do not think that a man lives on the earth that knew him any better than I did; and I am bold to say that, Jesus Christ excepted, no better man ever lived or does live upon this earth. I am his witness”

Thinking Men Believe Wells Doe Earth Mother Father Jesus Christ Jesus Christ Witness Better Man Joseph Smith

Author:Brigham Young

“We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.”

Thinking Men Mother Nations Women Mistake Benefits

Author:Joy Browne

“I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mum.”

Thinking America Mother Careers Personality

Author:Victoria Beckham

“I will tell you what I can't abide - and I think the Internet has really created a space for it - women criticizing other women and mothers criticizing other mothers.”

Thinking I Can Mother Space Internet Criticize Criticizing Others

Author:Jennifer Garner

“To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter, the deceitful son - how can we do it? Only, I think, by remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night, “Forgive our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” We are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse God’s mercy for ourselves. There is no hint of exceptions and God means what he says.”

“I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundaries. My mother was a strong influence and so was my dad. My mom was my friend whom I couldn't cross.”

Thinking Important Kids Mother Strong Influence Mom Dad My Friends Crosses My Dad My Mom Boundaries

Author:Karisma Kapoor

“Nicias, do you think you can erase with good deeds the wrongs you committed against your mother? What good deed will ever reach her? Her soul is a scorching noon time, without a single breath of a breeze, nothing moves, nothing changes, nothing lives there; a great emaciated sun, an immobile sun eternally consumes her.”

Thinking Soul Moving Mother Sun Breaths Committed Deeds Good Deeds Breeze Things Change Erase Noon Scorching

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.”

Thinking Kids Mother Father Amount Dreamer

Author:Frank Gehry

“In marrying, a man does not, to be sure, marry his wife's mother; and yet a prudent man, when he begins to think of the daughter, would look sharp at the mother; ay, and back to the grandmother too, and along the whole female line of ancestry.”

Thinking Men Looks Doe Whole Mother Lines Wife Daughter Female Grandmother Ancestry Prudent Marrying

Author:Maria Edgeworth

“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

“The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.”

Thinking Said Mother Love Is Compassion Symbols Love And Compassion Lama Disinterested Mother's Love Dalai Disinterest Disinterested Love

Author:Richard Gere

“Call me communist, but I think that's something that everyone, regardless of their family's income, has a right to, and I was fortunate enough to have a mother who felt that way as well.”

Thinking Way Wells Enough Mother Felt Income Fortunate Call Me Communist

Author:Liev Schreiber

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