Best our-lives & mother Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.”

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Author:Loudon Wainwright III

“Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.”

Men Matter Might Mother Virtue Our Lives Wife Changed Honor Moon No Matter What Grandmother Threatened Virgins Restlessness Rigidity Faithless Mother Grandmother Wife Mother Togas

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“What mothers do - they act with love, at least good mothers do! They have a spirit of strong, fierce, protective energy - the way a mother would put her life on the line for her children - we need to put our life on the line for each other.”

Way Needs Children Spirit Mother Energy Strong Lines Our Lives Fierce Protective Good Mother

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.”

Mother Our Lives Died Profound Abandoned Mother Died Juncture

Book:Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

“[On Jung's theory of psychological types:] My mother, Katharine C. Briggs, introduced it into our family and made it a part of our lives. She and I waited a long time for someone to devise an instrument that would reflect not only one's preference for extraversion or introversion but one's preferred kind of perception and judgment as well. In the summer of 1942 we undertook to do it ourselves.”

Wells Kind Long Made Mother Our Lives Theory Type Judgment Perception Summer Long Time Instruments Psychological Made It Our Family Preference Introversion Jung

Author:Isabel Briggs Myers

“No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won't forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we'll include them in our future.”

Past Remember Mother Forget Our Lives Childhood Praying Our Future Aunt Infancy Early Childhood Forget The Past

Book:Rubyfruit Jungle

Source: Rubyfruit Jungle

“I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother. In fact, many times during the day you have to make those decisions...We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom.”

“What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.”

Life Play Mother Passion House Comedy Our Lives Division Womb Mirth

Book:Sir Walter Raleigh: Selected Prose and Poetry

Source: Sir Walter Raleigh: Selected Prose and Poetry

“However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology, fate . . . until we can actually live in a society where mothers and children genuinely matter, ours is an essentially powerless responsibility. Mothers carry out most of the work orders, but most of the rules governing our lives are shaped by outside influences.”

May Children Matter Mother Order Culture Responsibility Our Lives Fate Influence Biology Dedicated Powerless Governing Diligent Mother And Child Outside Influences

Author:Mary Blakely

“You know how everyone felt like they were the favorite person of Rasulallah salAllahu 'alayhi wa sallam? We need to bring that sunnah into our homes. When we speak to our mother, she should feel that she's the most loved person in our life. When we speak to our wife, she should also get the same feeling. Before we try to change the world, let's bring balance in our homes.”

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Author:Nouman Ali Khan

“Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and make a world based on our stories.”

World Firsts Stories Mother Language Our Lives Wraps

Book:Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story

Source: Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story

“I'm keeping everything on a human level, but essentially everything in our lives has to be on a human level. Any specification of something by art history doesn't make any sense. The point is, if you have a loving, adorable, supportive mother anywhere in the world and you tell her all of your dreams, all of your aspirations, and the reward you would like, and she understands you, then it's not worth doing.”

Ifs World Humans Art Dream Mother Levels Our Lives Rewards Your Dreams Aspiration Supportive Adorable Art History Specifications

Author:Lawrence Weiner

“Yes. Yes, when we live our life like 1950s detective films. I often go to my fridge, "Hullo, we're out of milk. I say mother, where's the milk?"”

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Author:Bill Bailey

“In Bolivia there are Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist churches, and so on. In Bolivia there are indigenous religious beliefs like the rite of Pachamama Mother Earth, which shows us that Mother Earth is our life, we are born out of the Earth we live on the Earth and return to the Earth.”

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Author:Evo Morales

“I was extremely close with my mother and my grandmothers, we shared our lives - fully, honestly - and it was heightened as each succumbed to cancer. Little was hidden between us. No time. And what was hidden, turned inward. I made a vow to speak. Speak or die.”

Littles Made Mother Dies Speak Our Lives Cancer Honestly Grandmother Inward My Grandmother Vow

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Mothers have the huge influence, and I feel like they're always teaching us from the day we're born what to be afraid of, what to be cautious of, what we should like and what we should look like. Then we spend half of our life trying to be not like them, and then we reach another part of our lives where we see these things we can't get rid of.”

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Author:Amy Tan

“As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.”

Looks Soul Ends Body Lasts Mother Hours Our Lives Ready Months Birth Ten All Things Eternity Womb

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The Zen Master warns: 'If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him!' This admonition points up that no meaning that comes from outside of ourselves is real. The Buddhahood of each of us has already been obtained. We need only recognize it. Philosophy, religion, patriotism, all are empty idols. The only meaning in our lives is what we each bring to them. Killing the Buddha on the road means destroying the hope that anything outside of ourselves can be out master. No one is any bigger than anyone else. There are no mothers or fathers for grown-ups, only sisters and brothers.”

Source: IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS

“Well, being a working mommy is something I've always wanted to be. My mother is my biggest role model and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in our lives and has a great career of her own. Same with my father. So I knew it was possible going in to stay closely connected to my children while also chasing big dreams.”

Wells Children Dream Bigs Wanted Mother Father Careers Roles Our Lives Models Connected Well Being My Children Role Models Chasing Working Mom

Author:Kerri Walsh

“I think we all have something in our life's experience that makes us feel different. It's whether we have a gay parent or we have an alcoholic mother or maybe we don't know our father. And it's something that we feel bad about initially because we think we're abnormal. What's abnormal is our assumption that there's something called 'normal.'”

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Author:Amy Richards

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