Best mother & turns Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her.”

Believe Two Mother Turns Careers Teaching Raised My Sister Nursing Gowns

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.”

Source: Big Stone Gap: A Novel

“I think that at some point everybody turns into their mother or their father, it's just not normally from morning to afternoon.”

Thinking Mother Turns Father Morning Afternoon

Author:Kate Beckinsale

“Turn up the TV. No one listening will suspect, even your mother won't detect it, no your father won't know. they think that I've got no respect but everything means less than zero.”

Thinking Knows Mean Mother Turns Father Tvs Listening Suspects Zero No Respect No One Listening Less Than Zero

Author:Elvis Costello

“Mother was the disciplinarian, but it was Daddy who could turn me into an angel with just one look.”

Looks Mother Turns Angel Just One Daddy Turn Me

Book:my heart belongs

Source: my heart belongs

“My mother would put me on a wooden box at the stove and tell me to call her if certain things would happen. Like if the steam turns blue, that is danger!”

Ifs Happens Mother Certain Turns Danger Blue Boxes Steam Stoves

Author:Paul Prudhomme

“A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.”

“A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.”

May Children Mother Turns Father Endure My Mom Sister Mother Love Mother's Love Mother And Child Mother Proverbs Love For My Mother Mom And Child Love My Mom

Author:Washington Irving

“I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.”

People Giving Mother Turns Games Teacher Speech Giving Up Therapy Autism Aunt One On One Nannies Science Teacher Yaks Speech Therapy

Author:Temple Grandin

“Every act of motherhood contains a dual intent, as the mother holds the child close and prepares it to move way from her, as she supports the child and stands it firmly on its own feet, and as she guards it against danger and sends it out across the yard, down by the stream, and across the traffic-crowded highway. Unless a mother can do both - gather her child close and turn her child out toward the world - she will fail in her purpose.”

World Way Children Moving Mother Purpose Turns Can Do Support Failing Feet Danger Motherhood Streams Traffic Yards Highways Crowded

Author:Margaret Mead

“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

“Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.”

“Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.”

Men Wells Littles Mother Turns Levels Known He Man Grew Grew Up Recalls

Author:Frances Parkinson Keyes

“Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will.”

Men May Children Done Mother Turns Nature Environment

Book:The Stone Field

Source: The Stone Field

“I think that indigenous women's wisdom is crucial. So much of the care of the Earth has come from the mothers. I think it's imperative we turn to their wisdom in how to take care of the planet.”

Thinking Care Earth Mother Turns Planets Take Care Crucial Indigenous Imperatives

Author:Alice Walker

“The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don't.”

Men Mother Turns Grows Growing Up Trouble

Author:Oscar Wilde

“. . . the labor with which we give birth is simply a rehearsal for something we mothers must do over and over: turn ourselves inside out, and then let go.”

Giving Mother Turns Birth Letting Go Labor Rehearsal

Author:Susan Piver

“Love is the reason why my mother and father stick together in a hard life when they might each have an easier one apart; love is the reason why you choose a life with someone, and you don't turn back although your heart cries sometimes and your children see you cry and you wish out loud that things were easier. Love is getting up each day and fighting the same fight only to sleep that night in the same bed beside the same person because long ago, when you were younger and you did not see so clearly, you had chosen them.”

“The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.”

“Why is it every careerist tries to turn his mother into a Madonna--to prove his intellect is a virgin birth, papa had nothing to do with it? It's the sign of the misogynist.”

Trying Mother Turns Birth Prove Intellect Misogyny Virgins Papa Virgin Birth

Book:For Love Alone

Source: For Love Alone

“Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.”

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