“My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.” SelfMotherTermPiecesAcceptedSavages Author:Cheryl Strayed
“The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.” IfsMotherFallPiecesPlansAdviceSticksFall BackPlan B Author:Zoe Tapper
“I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.” ChildrenMotherPiecesDesignObjectsBrotherSaltBrothers And SistersCousinPeppersMother And ChildShakersSalt And Pepper Author:Eva Zeisel
“"You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not. Why should I? But the Oracle did not ask me to carry out its decision." [...] "The Earth cannot punish me for obeying her mesenger," Okonkwo said. "A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into its palm."” IfsShouldChildrenSaidEarthMotherDiesAsksSoundDecisionPiecesAuthorityHotFingersAsk MeShould IPalmsObeyingOraclesThings Fall Apart OkonkwoYamsOkonkwo Author:Chinua Achebe
“We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves.” PersonsMotherFatherPiecesBrokenPicksStrangerBrokeShakesOur LoveOur FatherBroken Pieces Author:Tarryn Fisher
“Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.” MotherPiecesRelateOrchestraViolin Author:Anton Webern
“It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God.” MindLawMotherPassionPiecesTaughtStrangeCostGloriousPsalmsLove Passion Author:John Ruskin
“My mother is a good woman - a very good woman - and I am, I think, not quite all criminality, but we do not pull together. I am a piece of machinery which, not understanding, my mother winds up the wrong way, setting all the wheels of my composition going in creaking discord.” ThinkingWayTogetherMotherUnderstandingPiecesWindVery GoodSettingSettingsWheelsCompositionMachineryWrong WayDiscordGood WomanCriminality Book:My Brilliant Career Source: My Brilliant Career
“I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked with my father - and later trainers. My style became very technical. I sacrificed a lot of things. I was always hunting for the king, for the mate. I'd forget about my other pieces.” YearsMovingMotherFatherForgetFivePiecesStyleKingsChessFive YearsMatesHuntingTrainersFive Year OldsPlaying Chess Author:Garry Kasparov
“If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.” IfsWayLifeInspirationalFeelsEarthMotherChangePiecesMeditationEatingRainRootsGratefulSoilSunshineMother EarthCarrotsTrue Life Author:Nhat Hanh
“I believe the alphabet is no longer considered an essential piece of equipment for traveling through life. In my day it was the keystone to knowledge. You learned the alphabet as you learned to count to ten, as you learned "Now I lay me" and the Lord's Prayer and your father's and mother's name and address and telephone number, all in case you were lost.” BelieveMotherFatherNamesLostI BelievePrayerNumbersLordKnowledgeCasesPiecesTenEssentialsLaysAddressesEquipmentTelephonesAlphabetKeystones Book:One Writer's Beginnings Source: One Writer's Beginnings
“Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of humanity, with a body like some plate in Godey's book of fashion, and a mind after the type of Father Gregory's pattern daughters, loaded down with the traditions, proprieties, and sentimentalities of generations of silly mothers and grandmothers, but left free to be, to grow, to feel, to think, to act. Development is one thing, that system of cramping, restraining, torturing, perverting, and mystifying, called education, is quite another.” ThinkingFeelsMindBookSoulBodyMotherHumanityGirlFatherLeftGrowsFreedomPiecesGenerationsOne ThingFashionTypeDevelopmentDaughterTraditionPatternsSillyGrandmotherArtificialPlatesClayLoadedSentimentalityProprietyRestrainingMother And Grandmother Book:History of woman suffrage Source: History of woman suffrage
“My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother...first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.” YearsFirstsLongTwoBigsMotherWhitePiecesFeetStonesTwentiesBoundsRoundsChinaWoundsCrushGrandmotherTwo YearsSoleInwardToesMy GrandmotherArchesBendingTwo Year Olds Author:Jung Chang
“Most baby books also tend to romanticize the mother who stays at home, as if she really spends her entire day doing nothing but beaming at the baby and whipping up educational toys from pieces of string, rather than balancing cooing time with laundry, cleaning, shopping and cooking.” IfsBookHomeMotherPiecesBabyCookingEducationalStringsShoppingToysCleaningDoing NothingLaundryStay At HomeWhipping Author:Susan Chira
“My mother gave me a piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. The correction was the meat, the substance. And then she would sandwich that, sandwich that with another piece of bread, which was love and encouragement. That was very important in shaping and molding our morality, our understanding of ourselves, making sure that we didn’t think we were better than or less than anyone, feeling no more worthy or no less worthy than anyone else.” ThinkingImportantFeelingsMotherUnderstandingPiecesMoralityEncouragementWorthyBreadSubstanceMeatSandwichesCorrectionsMolding Author:Lauryn Hill
“I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows how I learned to read? It was before I went to school, so I would go to the library and just take things off the shelf. My mother had to sign a piece of paper saying I could take adult books.” KnowsBookHandsSchoolMotherKnow HowPiecesTaughtPaperAdultsLibraryShelves Author:Joan Didion
“A certain monk told me that when he was very sick, his mother said to his father, "How our little boy is suffering. I would gladly give myself to be cut up into pieces if that would ease his suffering." Such is the love of God for people. He pitied people so much that he wanted to suffer for them, like their own mother, and even more. But no one can understand this great love without the grace of the Holy Spirit.” PeopleIfsInspirationalGivingLittlesSaidWantedChristianSpiritMotherCertainSufferingFatherReligiousBoysGracePiecesCuttingHolySickGod LoveEaseHoly SpiritOrthodoxMonkGreat LoveLittle Boys Author:Silouan the Athonite
“I've been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother's a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going to do a line and dive into the fashion world.” WorldLongMotherLinesMy OwnPiecesFashionDesignLong TimeDesignerJewelryFashion World Author:Christian Serratos
“It's my real name. My mother's name is Rose Rock. It was the worst name as a kid to have. They called me Piece of the Rock, Plymouth Rock, Joe Rockid, and Flintstones. Now they call me Mister Rock.” RealKidsMotherNamesPiecesWorstRocksRoseCall MePlymouthFlintstonesPlymouth Rock Author:Chris Rock
“When my mother would make me sandwiches for school - zucchini and eggs, pepper and eggs, everything was with eggs - the oil would drip out of the bag. She didn't care if I lost the sandwich - she wanted that brown bag back. She used to give me artichoke sandwiches. You have no idea how embarrassing it is to sit in the schoolyard eating an artichoke with a piece of bread. A lot of kids didn't know what it was, they'd say, Look at that guy eating flowers!” IfsKnowsGivingLooksIdeasCareKidsWantedSchoolUsedMotherGuyLostPiecesFlowerEatingGive MeOilBreadNo IdeaBrownBagsEggsEmbarrassingSandwichesThat GuyPeppersArtichokesZucchini Author:Pat Cooper
“When war ends, women are the first to pick up the pieces. Where there is no market place, they go door to door. When homes are destroyed, mothers and daughters haul stones to rebuild or plow fields together.” FirstsWarEndsHomeTogetherMotherPiecesDoorsFieldsPicksDaughterStonesDestroyedMother And DaughterHaul Author:Zainab Salbi
“I really try and work very closely with the designers to be as consistent as possible to their vision and for their look because I know how intricate and how much time it takes for them to make it. My mother was a seamstress and I really honor the art of each piece that's made and so for me it's all about that.” KnowsTryingLooksArtMadeMotherVisionKnow HowPiecesHonorDesignerConsistentIntricate Author:Jaime King