Best opposites & mother Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I had a mother who was very developed psychically and spiritually. She was, in a way, an opposite of my father, a complete liberal, interested in woman's liberation before it was the fashion.”

Way Mother Father Fashion Opposites Liberation Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.”

Ifs Men Writing Book Lying Mother Father Names Brother Praying Opposites Lust Denied Brutal Savages I Pray Maidens If There Is A God

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.”

People Way Stills Mother Desire Girl Born My Own Steps Generations Taught Daughter Opposites Misery Raised Chinese My Daughter Bitterness Up And Down Stairs

Author:Amy Tan

“As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.”

World Children Persons Mother Taste Opposites Surroundings Glamour Epitome Turner

Author:Lee Radziwill

“What ignited the rocket that sent you up into the vast regions of comedy, and why? I would say, for me, that philosophical treatise about having black beginnings and wanting love to compensate for that, wanting audiences and wanting attention - I say, "Au contraire." Completely opposite. I want the continuation of my mother's incredible love and attention to me.”

Want Mother Black Attention Audience Comedy Opposites Philosophical Incredibles Regions Rockets Continuation

Author:Mel Brooks

“Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. Undoubtedly, there are other routes to learning the wishes and dreams of the presumably opposite sex, but I know of none more direct, or more highly motivating, than being the mother of sons.”

Knows Made Dream Mother Wish Sex Boys Son Direct Opposites Generous Routes

Author:Mary Blakely

“I'm so opposite of my profession. No one - particularly my mother and father - ever thought I was going to be a boxer because I always felt that football and baseball were too dangerous. I was just such a quiet kid.”

Kids Mother Father Felt Dangerous Football Quiet Opposites Baseball Profession Boxers Mother And Father

Author:Sugar Ray Leonard

“There're lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I've got to make a record with my mother's voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I'm a baritone. She's a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.”

Wells Doe Mother Stars Voice Church Records Musician My Family Opposites Singers Solo Sopranos Baritones

Author:Grace Jones

“I was lucky in that I had a mother that was full of this colloquial wisdom and she used to say to me 'You know, failure is not the opposite of success, it's the stepping stone to success. There is nobody who has not failed along the way.' So I think its very important for young women, especially as they are starting in life, to recognize that because otherwise, they only see people's success. So, when I speak, I speak of my failures.”

People Thinking Knows Way Important Young Used Mother Speak Lucky Stones Opposites Starting Young Women Stepping Stones

Author:Arianna Huffington

“My view of addiction, whether it's drugs, food, alcohol or any list of other things, is the same reason I asked my mother why I wasn't a drug addict or alcoholic, which is because when you're not loved, often people become an addict and self destructive. Now the opposite of love is indifference and even worse is rejection and abuse, and I meet those people.”

People Self Reason Mother Love Is Views Drug Opposites Abuse Addiction Alcohol Lists Indifference Rejection Destructive Addict Alcoholics Drug Addict Self Destructive Self Destruct

Author:Bernie Siegel

“Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success.”

Mother Failing Taught Stones Opposites Stepping Stones

Author:Arianna Huffington

“Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.”

Littles Mother Girl Worry Daughter Adults Opposites Cute Relief Adolescence Relaxed

Book:Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“Kids, she says. When they’re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you’re the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it’s just the opposite. After that, you’re either a liar or a fool or a villain.”

World Believe Littles Kids Age Together Mother Magic Fool Opposites Liars Villain Dictionary Encyclopedia

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life. She was who she said she was, and everything Sophia, my mother, the pathologically manipulative liar, had never been.”

World Said Mother Honest Opposites Liars Lied Oasis Manipulative Sophia

Book:Deathwish

Source: Deathwish

“I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.”

Remember Mother Hate Opposites Indifference

Book:Something Borrowed: A Novel

Source: Something Borrowed: A Novel

“She would have colored gracefully with embarrassment had she not possessed the complexion of one of those “heathen Italians,” as her mother said, who never colored, gracefully or otherwise. (Convincing her mother that Christianity had, to all intents and purposes, originated with the Italians, thus making them the exact opposite of heathen, was a waste of time and breath.)”

Said Mother Purpose Christianity Waste Opposites Breaths Wasting Time Possessed Convincing Embarrassment Heathen Complexion

Author:Gail Carriger

“My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to find it. Keep trying doors; one will eventually open. She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It's not the opposite of success; it's an integral part of success. I talk a lot about learning to become fearless in your approach to life. But fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's all about getting up one more time than you fall down.”

“Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.”

Men Mother Literature Wish Goal Opposites Fortune Perseverance Idleness Good Fortune Diligence Mother And Son Well Wishes Best Wishes

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.”

Hands Eye Mother Father Parent Opposites Moved Parenting Contrary

Book:Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography

Source: Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography

“Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for whom I am, exactly the opposite of my mother, whose love I have to earn with great effort and with little success.”

Way Littles Mother Effort Opposites Spoil Orphan Nannies Great Effort Loving Me

Book:A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories

Source: A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories

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