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“For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship.”

Way Writing Mother Father Powerful Example Son Regret Absence Most Powerful Facing Death New Mother

Author:Nicole Krauss

“I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me, "Mother, you've been very cross and edgy with us and we notice you haven't been writing. We wish you'd go back to the typewriter. That did a lot of good for my false guilts about spending so much time writing. At that point, I acknowledged that I am a writer and even if I were never published again, that's what I am."”

Ifs Writing Years Mind Said Mother Wish Havens Changed Son Crosses Guilt Spending Discouraged Wish You Typewriters Edgy

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“Turn to Mary, tota pulchra, all pure and wonderful, and tell her: Our Lady and Mother, the Lord wanted you yourself to look after God and tend him with your own hands. Teach me, teach us all, how to treat your Son!”

Looks Hands Wanted Mother Turns Lord Teach Wonderful Son Pure Treats Mary Your Son

Author:Josemaria Escriva

“Baseball, more than any other sport, has a magical way of connecting fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren and ancestors back down the line. - From The Brooklyn Nine”

Mother Father Sports Son Daughter Baseball Ancestor Grandparent Grandchildren Father And Son

Author:Alan Gratz

“I should have suspected my husband was lazy. On our wedding day, his mother told me: "I'm not losing a son; I'm gaining a couch."”

Should Mother Son Husband Losing Should Have Lazy My Husband Couches Wedding Day Our Wedding

Author:Phyllis Diller

“As I got older, the role that I ended up (playing) on One Life to Live was a mother because, by then, I had a stable marriage - so I thought - and a beautiful son and mother roles became what I was doing well. I was still the Latina mom who very much related to people who love family. All those traditional values (were) coming back into my life.”

People Wells Stills Beautiful Mother Values Roles Son Mom Traditional Related Stable Coming Back Family Love Latina Mother And Son Traditional Values One Life To Live

Author:Patricia Mauceri

“There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them and makes it hard for them to live together. But the fact that in civilized societies mothers-in-law are such a favourite subject for jokes seems to me to suggest that the emotional relation involved includes sharply contrasted components. I believe, that is, that this relation is in fact an 'ambivalent' one, composed of conflicting affectionate and hostile impulses.”

Source: Totem and Taboo

“Today, Arizona's sons and daughters, mothers and fathers are proudly serving their country.”

Country Today Mother Father Inspiring Son Daughter Serving Mothers Day Arizona Mother And Father Mother Daughter Son And Daughter

Author:Jane D. Hull

“My mother always texts me saying 'Fighting! Do well, my handsome son!'.”

Wells Mother Fighting Son Handsome Text Me

Author:Jay Park

“You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.”

People Giving Looks Kind Book Light Mother Night Son Wall Fool Cold Thousand Gun Prison Ships Desert Flash Sail Moses Muzzle Points Of Light Prison Walls

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“If you turn on the television, you'll find the mothers of the most obvious criminals that man could ever diagnose, and they all think their sons are innocent. That's simple psychological denial. The reality is too painful to bear, so you just distort it until it's bearable. We all do that to some extent, and it's a common psychological misjudgment that causes terrible problems.”

Ifs Thinking Men Problem Reality Mother Turns Causes Simple Common Television Son Bears Terrible Painful Obvious Criminals Innocent Psychological Denial Turn-on Bearable

Author:Charlie Munger

“A father who is a chronic debtor, an adulterous mother, a beautiful wife, and an unlearned son are enemies in one's own home.”

Home Beautiful Mother Father Enemy Wife Son Debtors Beautiful Wife

Author:Chanakya

“Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. One thing we know: our god is also your god. The earth is precious to him and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.”

Knows Men Children Doe Earth Mother Teach One Thing Blood Taught Son All Things Our Children Creator Connected Harm Your Children Contempt Strands Web Of Life

Author:Chief Seattle

“A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us and it's also not that fun to watch.”

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Author:Dan Fogelman

“My parents' loss was compensated by the birth of my son Aryan and daughter Suhana. I believe they're my parents. In comparison to them, I behave childishly. My 13-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son behave like my mother and father. They're not my weakness. I love them a lot and give them a lot. I'll give them so much that by the time they are adults they wouldn't want anything.”

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Author:Shahrukh Khan

“I feel so lucky to have both a son and a daughter, because there's a different relationship with each of them.”

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Author:Hugh Jackman

“I believe our legacy will be defined by the accomplishments and fearless nature by which our daughters and sons take on the global challenges we face. I also wonder if perhaps the most lasting expression of one's humility lies in our ability to foster and mentor our children.”

“When my son was a mere three months old, I started working at the State Department. I was not only the youngest Assistant Secretary of State but I was also a breastfeeding mother. I'm the first to admit that this felt crazy at times, and the balancing act is never ever easy. But my two kids are the most wonderful things that have ever happened to me.”

Firsts Two States Kids Mother Three Felt Easy Wonderful Happened Crazy Son Months Mere Department My Son Secretary Wonderful Things Assistants Three Months Breastfeeding Balancing Act

Author:Susan Rice

“It's necessary to readjust and then try again. And then readjust and try again. Fathers have to do that with sons and mothers have to do that with daughters. The level of readjustment isn't quite so much when fathers are dealing with daughters and mothers are dealing with sons.”

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Author:James Spader

“My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That's what I do.”

People Knows Giving Kids Mother Stuff Cry Son Adults Cancer Reaching Hospitals Reach Out God Knows Visiting

Author:Mr. T

“You're not going to have the police force representing the black and brown community, if they've spent the last 30 years busting every son and daughter and father and mother for every piddling drug offense that they've ever done, thus creating a mistrust in the community. But at the same time, you should be able to talk about abuses of power, and you should be able to talk about police brutality and what, in some cases, is as far as I'm concerned, outright murder and outright loss of justice without the police organization targeting you in the way that they have done me.”

“Only a war that serves no conceivable national interest gets the New York Time's endorsement. Liberals warm to the idea of American mothers weeping for their sons, but only if their deaths will not make America any safer.”

Ifs Ideas War America Mother Interest New York Son Warm Weeping New York Times Endorsements National Interests

Book:Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism

Source: Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism

“Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?”

Giving May Home Body Mother Father Son Giving Up Daughter Bags Coming Home Mother And Father Servicemen

Author:Sean Hannity

“I've certainly faced some raw, real pain in my life. I lost my father to a car accident when I was young. My mother died ten years ago. My son was very sick as an infant. Eventually, I have attempted to transform this pain into art, to make meaning out of it.”

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Author:Dani Shapiro

“Well, when Eleanor Roosevelt's mother dies, she goes to live with her Grandmother Hall. And her Grandmother Hall is in mourning. She's in widow's weeds. She's in her 50s, but appears very old. And she's exhausted from raising rather out-of-control children. Her favorite daughter, Anna, has died (Eleanor's mother), and she has living at home two other sons, Vallie and Eddie. And they are incredible sportsmen, incredible drinkers, out-of-control alcoholics.”

Wells Children Two Home Mother Dies Son Daughter Died Incredibles Mourning Grandmother Halls Weed Exhausted Alcoholics Widows Anna Drinkers Eleanor Sportsman

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“Let's just put the business aside and talk about family. Family's just amazing. My wife Jenny-Lynn is an incredible mother. Our son Geddy is just unbelievable. Nothing but love and laughter and that's what life should be. It's so hard when you're in the industry we're in. It can be very negative. I've tried my whole life to stay positive with this gig, and I do. I just love what I do - but more importantly - I love life.”

Should Hard Whole Mother Wife Son Industry Laughter Negative Incredibles My Wife Whole Life Love Life Unbelievable Gigs Stay Positive About Family I Love Life Jenny Love And Laughter

Author:J. Robert Spencer

“I think rappers are the fall guy because some of us don't have the wits to point the finger back. The thing is when you take a whole generation and whip them out, string the mothers out and put the fathers in jail - the reason I know respect is because my father is the mediator between me and my grandfather. I'm the mediator between my son and my father because I'm old enough to understand where my father is coming from and young enough to understand what my kid is trying to do. When you whip out the mediator the kids run wild and the old people are scared of them.”

“I'm really interested in, who's booked the guests, who's decided to have Lena Dunham and to have the mothers of sons who were shot - sons and daughters who were shot by the police and, you know, the other performers, Paul Simon and Alicia Keys.”

Knows Mother Son Keys Daughter Shots Decided Police Performers Guests Son And Daughter

Author:Terry Gross

“I don't really like to compare my life as an actress and being my son's mother. My personal life and my professional life are very different, and I try to keep them separate, just because my personal life is so precious to me.”

Trying Different Life Is Mother Son Actresses Compare My Son Personal Life Professional Life

Author:Nia Long

“When you put a halo on concepts - gender roles, religion, nationality or pride - or you put a halo on any topic - anything that you hold dear like the relationship between a father and son or a mother and daughter, what it means to be married or what it means to be single or what it means to be a free spirit or what it means to be an artist - if you just put a halo on something and say it's untouchable - "that is special and that is perfect" - you immediately close your eyes to the truth of it, because the truth is that nothing is perfect.”

“I know you were surprised when, after the fall of Dacca, Pakistani and Indian officers shook hands. But do you realize that, up until 1965, in our army and the Pakistani one you could come across generals who were brothers? Blood brothers, sons of the same father and the same mother.”

Knows Hands Mother Fall Father Realizing Blood Son Brother Army Indian Officers Blood Brothers

Author:Indira Gandhi

“What the articles which have been written about The First Man propose is humility. The acceptance of these contradictions. Seeking an explanation is death. The lie is death in [Albert] Camus. That's why in Camus' play The Misunderstood the son dies, killed by his sister and his mother, because he lied. He never told them who he was. They killed him because they didn't recognise him.”

Men Firsts Has Beens Play Lying Mother Dies Written Acceptance Humility Son Seeking Explanation Contradiction Articles Misunderstood Lied Propose Recognise He Lied

Author:Catherine Camus

“My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.”

Mother Actors Father Son Directors Actresses Filmmaker

Author:Sergio Leone

“Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.”

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Book:The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy

Source: The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy

“What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?”

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Author:Rose Kennedy

“I was shamed.My son, Bill, who was 14 come to me and said: "Mother, you've been professing that you're an atheist for a long time now. Well, I don't believe in God either, but every day in school I'm forced to say prayers, and I feel like a hypocrite. Why should I be compelled to betray my beliefs?" I couldn't answer him.”

Feels Should Believe Wells Long Said School Mother Belief Prayer Answers Son Long Time Bills Don't Believe Atheist My Son Believe In God Betray Should I Compelled Hypocrite

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“I've stood in long lines, in the rain and under the sun, just to buy a pack of butter or a box of paper napkins. I've seen mothers running after the corpses of their martyred sons, oblivious to whether their headscarves or their chadors or their stockings and shoes were slipping off or not. I won't say any more. In the light of all this, how did you expect my poetry to be joyful or, as in my recent poem, to speak of love? Even so, more than half of my poetry is joyful and these are the products of the moments when I've felt happy.”

Long Moments Running Mother Speak Son Rain Poetry Is Joyful Oblivious

Author:Simin Behbahani

“Arthur Miller said one of my favorite lines ever, that he had the mother say to her two sons about a very unstable father in Death of a Salesman. She said, "Attention must be paid." It's one of the most resonant lines that I think he ever wrote, and I think attention must be paid to the truth.”

Thinking Mother Father Attention Son My Favorite Salesman Arthur

Author:Mandy Patinkin

“I was thinking a lot about myself and my own super inextricably Jewish boy link with my mother. I felt like even a Jewish spy would have this relationship, so yes, I was very much exploring this relationship of boys and their mothers, and Jewish boys and their mothers. Exactly that, the ridiculous lengths that a doting mother will go for her son, and the ridiculous lengths that - I will pretend this is distanced from me - the ridiculous neediness of a grown man for a mother.”

Thinking Men Mother Boys Son Ridiculous Exploring Spy

Author:Nathan Englander

“Do you want to see a mother and son antagonistically attack each other every single episode for five years? I don't think so.”

Thinking Mother Son

Author:Jeffrey Donovan

“For many years, I did pantomime with Marcel Marceau. I was a writer for him and got to know very well how to use the body for illustration. I wanted to do a mother without arms, but using the arms of her son in Santa Sangre. The tragedy should always have something funny. Something weird.”

Mother Son Tragedy

Author:Alejandro Jodorowsky

“It may be unfathomable in architecture, but it is very practical, or routine, for a person in theater to use action. You have the line, "Come home, son," but you can't play that line by going out and being a mother; you can't be a noun. But you can play to smother your son; you can play to grovel to your son. Again, the real information is carried in action. And, to an annoying degree, theater people talk to each other in infinitive expressions. If you don't have a vivid verb to describe what you're doing, you're probably going to be a pretty bad actress.”

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Author:Keller Easterling

“It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.”

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Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“I did not raise my son, Sam, to celebrate Mother's Day. I didn't want him to feel some obligation to buy me pricey lunches or flowers, some annual display of gratitude that you have to grit your teeth and endure.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.”

Eye Mother Son Flower Brown My Son Frantic Hummingbirds

Author:Anne Lamott

“Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!”

Mother Literature Enemy Son Brother Kings Bitter

Author:Honore de Balzac

“All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

Book:Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln

Source: Anecdotes and Stories of Abraham Lincoln

“I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer. I realize with my son, I have to sometimes be tough, especially now when he's pushing boundaries. With my daughter, I can get a little stern with her and she pretty much will listen.”

Littles I Can Sometimes Kids Mother Realizing Son Lovers Daughter Tough Boundaries Pushing My Daughter My Son Pushing Boundaries

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.”

World War Mother Son Husband Died War Of The Worlds Second World War

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.”

Mother Father Responsibility Trouble Strange Son Duty Grew Grew Up Curiosity Debt Gambling Mixtures Presbyterians

Author:Rupert Murdoch

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