Quotation Explorer - 'Mother'

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. - ― Albert Ellis
And I remind you of your mother now? I have got to look into a manlier cologne. - Cassandra Clare
He'd wanted to mend her just like his mother had mended his favorite teddy bear when his arm had come loose after too much play. He offered her his pudding cup instead. - Brooke Warra
Mother is the dead heart of the family, spending father's earnings on consumer goods to enhance the environment in which he eats, sleeps, and watches television. - Germaine Greer
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration. - Olive Schreiner
Every life matters. Be like Mother Nature and love everyone without judging. - Debasish Mridha
A mother who would stop at nothing for her child is dangerous woman when crossed. - Solange nicole
Mother, you have my father much offended. - William Shakespeare
My mother is my life's breath. - Muhammad Faisal Yaqoob
I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have. - Brooke Hayward
I was so hungry to learn. My mother drilled this into me. When you read,she said, you know--and you can help yourself and others. - Carole Boston Weatherford
Nothingness is the basis of everything that exists today. It's the mother of creation & consciousness! - Vishwanath S J
I wonder if my first breath was as soul-stirring to my mother as her last breath was to me. From 14 Days: A Mother, A Daughter, A Two-Week Goodbye - Lisa Goich
A mother's love is the morning sunshine that always enlightens our way. A mother occupies the most special place in our heart every moment of every day. I wish all mothers a very happy and brightest Mother's Day. - Debasish Mridha
In the garden of humanity every baby is a fresh new flower who can smile, laugh, giggle, dance, love and sing with mother earth. - Debasish Mridha
A child fish asks mother fish, 'Mother, why cannot we live on the Earth?' Mother fish replied, 'Dear… it is not the place for fish, it is the place for selfish - Santosh Kalwar
I didn't know when I told God that I wanted to be a mother that I needed to be more specific. Instead of asking to be a mother of my own children, I now realize that I was given the responsibility to be a mother to all of God's children. - Monika Zands
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. - Walter Bagehot
I believe that religion is the belief in future life and in God. I don't believe in either. I don't believe in God as I don’t believe in Mother Goose. - Clarence Darrow
A mother is the most important blessing of your life. - Debasish Mridha
My mother says we’re supposed to make mistakes. That’s the way we learn. Rocky Ryan in Bully At Ambush Corner. - Karen Mueller Coombs
It won't do to be afraid of failure. Failure is the mother of success; a long journey begins from the ground beneath his feet. - Gen Urobuchi 虚淵 玄
Mother Nature moves in sunshine and storms... I am her child. - Rachel M. Walls
A true mother is known for her compassion, love and passion; she is everly dedicated to her calling. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
There are one or two people - I’m not talking about family, about Zhenya or your mother - whom a pariah can trust. He can contact these people without first waiting for a sign. - Vasily Grossman
What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth. For the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish, and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs to him only? - Massasoit
Necessity is the mother of delusion. For true love to exist there must be nothing that is necessary to it. Lovers have to live happily ever after, no matter what happens. - Billy Bob Stone
What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person. - George Orwell
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. - Agatha Christie
I am a feminist because in every woman I can see reflection of my mother. - Debasish Mridha
The only person can love you in the world is Your mother (real)She forgets with in seconds the bad behavior you did wtih her, she comes backs again with love! - akshay Me
Mother Teresa once said, "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted are the greatest poverty." To this I will add: Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities. - Adeline Yen Mah
We all intuitively know that a mother's love is crucial to the creation of a well-adjusted human and that we are all born with an instinctive expectation of receiving unconditionally selfless love from our mother. - Jeremy Griffith
There is no one who takes care of us as lovingly as our mother does. She is our living God. - Mohtasham Usmani
ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution. "My accountability, bear in mind," Said the Grand Vizier: "Yes, yes," Said the Shah: "I do -- 'tis the only kind Of ability you possess." Joram Tate - Ambrose Bierce
Is it better to be the lover or the loved one? Neither, if your cholesterol is over six hundred. By love, of course, I refer to romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters. - Woody Allen
To know myself as woman in the image of God to know God as Mother and to know my own mother as a window into God: these three are inseparable.If one is implausible to the heart the other two are as well. - Roberta C. Bondi
You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be -I had a mother who read to me - Strickland W. Gillilan
In late 1949, at two and a half years old, I arrived in Jamaica for the first time. I had crossed the Atlantic by air from England. My Jamaican father was studying in London, my European mother was sick, and so in true Jamaican style I was sent home to my grandparents. - Rachel Manley
What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation. - Steve Maraboli
My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping. - Rita Rudner
My mother and father held hands. I wondered what that was like, to hold someone's hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand. - Benjamin Alire Sáenz
A case in point of the difference between Like and Love is that a daughter often likes her Mother but loves her Father. - Anuj Somany
When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse. - Chico Xavier
My mother always used to say, "The older you get, the better you get. Unless you're a banana. - Betty White
To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow. - Maya Angelou
A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman's crowning creative experience of a lifetime. - John Stevenson
I would consider all women as my mother but not all girls as my sisters. - M.F. Moonzajer
So reality your mother builds you a room in which to run and test, your father give you the stuff on which to handle. Tests and everything needed and you just upgrade yourself! - Deyth Banger
Getting caught is the mother of invention. - Robert Byrne
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. - Calvin Trillin
Holy mother of rectangles. - Dan Howell
I don't believe in love at first sight because my mother started loving me before seeing me. - Luffina Lourduraj
A woman is a mother, daughter, and sister of every man; how she could be wrong? - Debasish Mridha
People mean well; they just aren't here enough to get what we are dealing with or what home means to my mother. Everyone thinks they know what should be done, and their suggestions make me suspect they must consider me an idiot who doesn't comprehend the situation. - George Hodgman
My mother is a poem that I could never write for she deserves multitudes; all of praise. - Sinovuyo Nkonki
These wrinkles are nothingThese gray hairs are nothing,This stomach which sagswith old food, these bruisedand swollen ankles, my darkening brain,they are nothing.I am the same boymy mother used to kiss. - Mark Strand
But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother, was stalking her. - P.L. Travers
My mother said my father had a drop of dragon blood.Two drops. That, or a cock six feet long. - George R.R. Martin
I signaled the bus-driver and he stopped the bus for me right outside the cottage, and I flew down the steps of the bus straight into the arms of the waiting mother. - Roald Dahl
By nature man without woman can feel no joy. She is his mother, his sister, his loving friend. She is seldom his enemy. - Christine de Pizan
If pride is a sin, then love must be the mother of sin. - Lionel Suggs
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. - John Lennon
Back in the day, it was either both a mother and her daughter had pubic hair, or the daughter didn’t. Today, in many a case, the mother is the one who doesn’t. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does. - Evan Esar
Mother are wife are saints, If they are not together - A G Maran
My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother. - Debasish Mridha
Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. - Mary Chase
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a- bitch.
At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air. - Vladimir Nabokov
I felt the need to distance myself from my problems, instead of dealing with them. My mother said It’s not uncommon for people to run away from their fears to start somewhere new with a better attitude. - Documentary Recordings
My mother says I'm crazy, I'm not crazy, I just have a different way of looking at things. - James Kidd
I told my kids I just want three words on my tombstone, if I have one. I'll probably be cremated. One is "woman." I'm very comfortable in that role. I've loved being a woman, I've loved being a mother, I've loved being a grandmother. I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair
I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me... - Masashi Kishimoto
It's in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I'm clearly dramatic. - Mariah Carey
Mother Teresa didn't walk around complaining about her thighs -- she had shit to do. - Sarah Silverman
Bombs on my backpack lunchbox full of fivestar crackers pockets loaded with rockets im gonna spit fireworks explosive rhymes connected like judas belt here comes my ride a mother rocket fly so high reach and bursts into the night sky - patrick cruz
Gazing from the moon, we see one earth, without borders, Mother Earth, her embrace encircling one people, humankind. - Frederick Glaysher
A wholesome mother knows the software to delete, download, upgrade and upload for the best results. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Mother is the center of the family; everyone else surrounds her. - Debasish Mridha
Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be. - Patrick Rothfuss
It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive. - Lauren DeStefano
You live in a society, that always demands you to have a label to define yourself. Now it's up to you, whether you choose man-made labels like 'religious' and 'atheist', or your innate natural label gifted by Mother Nature, i.e. 'human'. - Abhijit Naskar
. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth are traceable to the age of Ignorance, the mother of credulity. - Edward Clodd
Instead of falling to the ground like a heavy doll, as Kermin had seen the prisoners do at the Chetnik executions, his mother shrank into herself, a reverse blossoming, coming to rest in a sitting position, like a ruminative Buddha - Reif Larsen
The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had once been, hushed for ever on her bosom. - Charles Dickens
The wild women in his lap,' my father enthused, 'laying their breasts on his head.'There was a moment of stunned silence. Then my mother spoke slowly, with an edge to her voice. 'I think you mean "wild beasts laying their heads in his lap".''Do I? - Patrick Rothfuss
Necessity, who is the mother of invention. - Plato
I wrote Seventh Heaven for my mother who I miss every dayFrom Facebook post - Alice Hoffman
A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by mother, who sees that the others get it.
I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.
There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. - Jill Churchill
I'd rather be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.
Success will not come to you like a baby who came to his mother - Isra
I will always love my mother for who she is and everything she does. - Tammy-Louise Wilkins
Necessity is the mother of invention.
My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature. - Audrey Hepburn
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. - Shirley Temple Black
Jo claimed that the reason people survived breakups was that within days of the amputation, Mother Nature started reminding you of what you had been doing without, what could have been better, all the samll discontents you had been filing away. - Emma Donoghue
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers. - Wallace Stevens
If you honour your mother, the Mother of the Universe will guard you against harm. - Sathya Sai Baba
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. - Mae West
A mother is a dealer of hope. - Farshad Asl
A virtuous mother sows and sows seeds of greatness with great life in mind. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother. - Andrew Sean Greer
People do not often respond to a person who is consistently true to his words and deeds, but the mother nature will definitely reply to him in its language. - Anuj Somany
God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. - Phyllis McGinley
We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead. - Jane Austen
Mother Earth reintroduced me to my people. - Anasazi Foundation
Never tell a mother how she has to raise her children and give no advice over their schooling, health or nutrition if you are not asked to. - Rossana Condoleo
Once she had thought that she might discover some key to her mother if only she could get her likeness right, but she has since learned that the mysteries of another person only deepen, the longer one looks. - Debra Dean
Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child. - Amit Kalantri
Who thinks to interview their own mother? As a self-fixated teen, I never imagined that she had an actual personal history. To my young eyes, she was Source of Cash Obsessed With De-Cluttering - Jancee Dunn
Tell me what you'll do if you're captured by the coyotes... Well, that might work, but does your mother live near here? - Charles M. Schulz
Mother nature pushes you back the faster you go, same way people will full you back, the faster you succeed. - Arlin Sailesh Kapadia
Let me talk to my mother. She is listening from above. - Debasish Mridha
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Every woman is a gift when she becomes a daughter, Every woman is beautiful when she becomes a lover, Every woman is special when she becomes a wife, Every woman is a god when she becomes a Mother - Vivek Thangaswamy
A mother understands what a child does not say. - Jewish Proverb
He knows that if his father had been a different man, or his mother another women, he would have been the same. He would have lived all his years the same way. They played no part. Any combination would have produced the same result. The same man. - R.A.Lucas
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. - Lois McMaster Bujold
People usualy use "move on" when their heart broke because of love. Most don't understand when father, mother, sister or brother has died, you might have needed more strength to move on. It was like living with no air. - Glad Munaiseche
An industrious mother is an initiator of a good course; always charting new course for her loved ones. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
I believe that it should be the blessing of every child to be born into a home where that child is welcomed, nurtured, loved, and blessed with parents, a father and a mother, who live with loyalty to one another and to their children. - Gordon B. Hinckley
In my eyes, all readers are my father and mother. You may see a boy, with all of his body and heart bared, resplendently smiling to mom, and that boy is me. - Xue Mo
Woman! She's mother, she's daughter, she's sister; she's a unique creation of God; her womb is also root cause of mankind; her shadow provides gallantry; her affection heals life into the languid body; love her, worship her, you'll find paradise. - Tanmaya Guru
Chicken Soup: An ancient miracle drug containing equal parts of aureomycin, cocaine, interferon, and TLC. The only ailment chicken soup can't cure is neurotic dependence on one's mother.
Earth rejoices our words, breathing and peaceful steps. Let every breath, every word and every step make the mother earth proud of us. - Amit Ray
I hate the way my mother thinks. - M
My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one. - Groucho Marx
Some plant lips on Mother Earth in a display of gratitude.Meanwhile, she is kissing the soles of your feet, recognizing the one to be worshiped is you. - Taylor Patton
Nobody loves me but my mother, And she could be jivin' too.
You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you. - Meryl Streep
my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw - Charles Bukowski
Oh, Oh my fucking mother she screw ups everything! - Deyth Banger
In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
And honestly, given the choice of facing my mother or a vampire, I think I'd always choose the latter. - Krystle Jones
The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother.
Any bride who doesn't suck up to their husband's mother is a fool. - Julian Fellowes
Love the world as the mother loves her little child. - Debasish Mridha
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. - Ellen DeGeneres
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph. - Shirley Temple
Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen". - Richard Nance
Last words of his mother to his father: "Keep eternity before the children. - Dallas Willard
When my mother died and left me all alone, I began to realize that some things, like being loved, were more important than one's image, money, and accomplishments. - J. Matthew Nespoli
Whatever time mother goes to heaven, it is always too soon. Fortunately, she is forever. - R. N. Prasher
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. - Dan Quayle
Compassion is like mother giving love to her children. Mother’s ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide. - Amit Ray
My mother groaned, my father wept,into the dangerous world I leapt. - William Blake
I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends. - Ana Monnar
Hey, GreenHollyWood ruin my vision. I don't want to be gay... because what's shown in Mr.Robot it's geysish, mother fucker! - Deyth Banger
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny. - Albert Ellis
[W]hat my grandmother and my mother and I all know is that our beauty is no miracle. It is bought and paid for. - Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War
There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation. - James E. Faust
Greatness is in simplicity and in kindness, like Mother Theresa. - Debasish Mridha
Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod. - David Scheier
Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother. - Germaine Greer
The most comfortable place on earth is the arms of a mother. - Debasish Mridha
The man who shows great respect for his mother, and the women in his life; will have respect for those he meets. - Ellen J. Barrier
Satan impregnated my mother one lovely spring morning. We didn’t have the heart to tell my father. - Holly Hood
No man is poor who has a Godly mother. - Abraham Lincoln
i lost a whole continent.a whole continent from my memory.unlike all other hyphenated americans my hyphen is made of blood.when africa says hellomy mouth is a heartbreakbecause i have nothing in my tongueto answer her.i don’t know how to say hello to my mother. - african-american ii nayyirah waheed
On a good day, my style is librarian chic. On a bad day, it's frumpy mother. - Cassandra Page
You know Becky, you haven't been the same since that crowbar fell on your head." - - said to me by my mother after I eloped with a guy I'd known for about 30 days, when I was 18 years old! - Becky Lewellen Povich
Let me talk to my mother. She is listening from the above. - Debasish Mridha
I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave. - Sebastian Horsley
One thing that became clear to me is that images of a divine mother are surprisingly important in the psychological wholeness of women, especially in the process of women taking up residence in their own authority. - Sue Monk Kidd
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children; and here was one who was worshipping a stone! - William Makepeace Thackeray
Mothering your man is not sexy for you or for him. If you want your man to "start being a man", start being his lover not his mother. - Miya Yamanouchi
Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack in that mother fucker's reflection. - Lady Gaga
A foolish man enjoys the company of prostitutes;a wise man enjoys the company of his wife.The mother of a prudent son will rejoice;the father of a mindless son will groan. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Laziness is the mother of all bad habits, but ultimately she is a mother and we should respect her - Shikamaru Nara
A mother has the best of all smiles; she is a wonderful friend, lover and adviser. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. It just seemed so amazing to me. - Moon Unit Zappa
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty. - Thomas Aquinas
I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me. - Darnell Lamont Walker
I don't buy that overused line about a woman's job making her a better mother. The children need more time. Everything in our home needs more time. - Holly Peterson
It strkes me as singularly inappropriate for a school to use its students for fund-raising. It reminded me of the first time I saw a gypsy mother send her baby out to beg.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. - Dorothy C. Fisher
You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me. - Strickland Gillian
Be humble and kind. Kindness has power in it. Look at Mother Teresa, the truest example of kindness. She was humble, kind, and fragile yet she was also a symbol of power. I have never heard of a woman more powerful than her. When we hear name, we must bow our heads with deep respect. - Debasish Mridha
We, the Hawaiian people, who are born from the union of Papahanaumoku and Wakea, earth mother and sky father, and who have lived in these islands for over 100 generations, will always have the moral right to the lands of Hawai'i now and forever, no matter what any court says. - Lilikalā K. Kame'eleihiwa
Oh! You are a woman! You are the pure reflection of my mother, sister, and daughter. I can never hurt you. - Debasish Mridha
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies. - William Faulkner
our earth is the most beautiful mother :) - shivangi lavaniya
Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler. - Charlotte M. Mason
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. - Francis Maitland Balfour
Holy Mother we do believe,That without sin Thou didst conceive;May we now in Thee believing,Also sin without conceiving. - A.P. Herbert
Present, rather than past, is the mother of future. So, your future must take after your present. But if it resembles more your past, the granny must be a slut! - Raheel Farooq
My mother had a kindness that embraced all life.She knew her place well and was comfortable in giving everything she had.This is the tradition of native women. - Dan George
Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you - Munia Khan
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia. - Dame Edna Everage
The possibility to love another scared me; terrified me actually. Being a free spirit, apart of me is most alive when roaming, than I became a mother and for the first time I felt my heart live outside my body and that's the moment his laughter became my medicine. - Nikki Rowe
My mother had morning sickness after I was born. - Rodney Dangerfield
My mother belonged to that group of low IQ individuals who find everything alarming and believe that raising your voice is the most effective form of communication. - Annabelle R. Charbit
Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. - Abigail Adams
Invention is the mother of necessity. - Thorstein Veblen
That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in. - Whoopi Goldberg
Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Gandhi, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci and Jesus Christ. - Shannon L. Alder
Think twice before you pull your trouser and rape a woman; she may be your mother, sister or friend, and you know the consequences that follows. - Michael Bassey Johnson
We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother. - George Eliot
There’s still a little girl inside every grown woman who would love to be able to fall into the arms of her mother and cry her eyes out every now and then. - Toni Sorenson
my mother and then my mom then my mom - wael abd
My mother was the greatest philosopher. I am nothing but a reflection of her imagination. - Debasish Mridha
You will do as you are told the second you are told to do it. Is that clear?''I'm not six mother, I think I can grasp standard sentences.' Whether I chose to pay attention to them however... - Heather James
You only think women are inferior when your own mother is failure. - Frans Hanghome
She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity. - D. Morgenstern
Life is like Mother Nature - unpredictable. Friends /relatives who promise to help, will avoid you when you need them. Then, you struggle to get through and suddenly, some stranger walks in offering you the help you needed. The hope, the betrayal and the miracle...all are just part of our life... - Sandhya Jane
However my mother had once said, ‘When you go to art school, you’ll find everybody sitting around practicing how to do their signature'; and sure enough, there they were, some of them doing just that. - Richard Williams
Mother earth cried so much that she has pool of tears more than the land of happiness. - Santosh Kalwar
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her. - Jodi Picoult
A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.
I don't understand why some kids git a good school and mother and father and some don't. But Rita say forgit the WHY ME shit and git on to what's next. - Sapphire
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. - Francisco de Goya
My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those. - Stephen Fry
As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,For they are women's children, and we mother them again.Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses! - James Oppenheim
An excellent mother knows she has the beautiful life, and she is a big time programmer. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
I could say it all began with my mother. - Shannon Celebi
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants. - Coco Chanel
A woman is a loving mother, a gorgeous daughter, and beautiful angel of imagination. - Debasish Mridha
The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Women of Our World are like Mother Earth. They don't just give life to the next generation but also to Hope. The Women of Our World are to be loved, respected and protected. - Avijeet Das
A praying mother is more precious and valuable than all the riches in the world. - Violet James
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. - Mark Twain
Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father. - Gloria Steinem
Do not insult the mother alligator until after you have crossed the river. - Haitian Proverb
lov3 mOthEr coz shE is onE givE time 2 mother coz shE is onE don,t waste timE wid girlz becoZ they r many :) mom <3 - Muhammad Jawad
I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean. - Lana Del Rey
Daughter follows mother in actions and habits and some times also follows her granny. - Tayyab Nawaz Sulehri
Prayer was never meant to be magic,' Mother said.'Then why bother with it?' Suzy scowled.'Because it's an act of love,' Mother said. - Madeleine L'Engle
Om is that God of love. Like a loving mother Om cleans us of our clutters collected through many incarnations. - Banani Ray
No mother ever wants a war, they want to see their children grow up in peace, surrounded by love. - Debasish Mridha
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one. - Groucho Marx
She ain't my mother, so I ain't gonna get her nothin'.
My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. - Quentin Crisp
Hey.... hey mother fuckers, waky, waky, wake up, wake up.... - Deyth Banger
I pursued education not instead of being a good mother, but because being a good mother required that I build a better life for my family. - Wendy Davis
To talk about God, except in the context of prayer, is to take His name in vain.One may, indeed, talk to a child about God, but this is on a par with telling him that he was brought to his mother by a stork. - Ferdinand Ebner
The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after. - Tallulah Bankhead
I lived with my mother for only a short time. Even though I left, she is always surrounding me with her love. - Debasish Mridha
When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso. - Pablo Picasso
No man can protect you like your father, No women can love you like your mother. - Pradeepa Pandiyan
then suddenly one day he awake to find that time had gone; the house completed, the imortelle tree cut down, his mother dead. - Earl Lovelace
If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me. - Judith Viorst
I was born because my mother needed a fourth for meals.
...Being a mother is like being a gardener of souls. You tend your children, make sure the light always touches them - Karen White
I never found myself alone, because of my mother. - imahmedyounis
My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call. - Cathy Guisewite
Sadly, I hate foreigners. And Americans. And animals. And flora, and some fauna. Also the magma that is the very core of this our mother earth. I'm full o' hate! - Joss Whedon
Leisure is the mother of philosophy. - Thomas Hobbes
My evolution as a writer? Mother said "stop talking like that", teachers said "you're weird", readers say "best book ever - Daniel Marques
It isn't what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you do for God that isn't self serving, which sets the stage for children to learn to care about something other than what is expected. - Shannon L. Alder
Mother! Believe me, this word is more sacred than the name of Lord Ram. - Tanmaya Guru
Speak truth and believe in the power of truth, the more you will believe in yourself, the more you will see the beauty of nature and mother earth. - Santosh Kalwar
Polly tried to conquer the bad feeling; but it worried her, till she remembered something her mother once said to her: "When you feel out of sorts, try to make someone else happy, and you will soon be so yourself. - Louisa May Alcott
Nothing lasts forever. But the thing is, you can reuse some. Use your mind. - Leo's Mother, The Lost Hero - Rick Riordan
God Father (the Creator) geometrizes, God Mother (Nature) fractalizes. - Stefan Emunds
A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart. - Kahlil Gibran
Looking at the Blessed Mother, Kevin felt the pull of a special allegiance with her. To Serve God, to honor Mary who speaks to my soul, sending me messages I cannot know the meaning of? Is this what my life is about? - Peter J Tanous
When my mother died, I thought I’d drown in sorrow. But my grandmother said something very wise, and I’ve always held it close to my heart. She said that not even the sea is infinite, and neither is grief. - T. Frohock
Woman cannot be free until man’s mind is liberated from the megalomania! His self-exaltation is the mother of the gender inequalities. Till we eliminate his exacerbated narcissism, woman will remain unfree! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother. - W. C. Fields
I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But I never bump and grind. Why, that's vulgar. I'd never do anything vulgar before an audience. My mother would never allow it. - Elvis Presley
An indoor man eats nothing, except that which is prepared and served by his mother with lots of insults, an outdoor man eats that which he buys, prepares, served and eaten with lots of respect. - Michael Bassey Johnson
My mother remains unmatched in quality, competent in business process, and is never contested for any faults - Priyavrat Thareja
You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older. - Lillian Gish
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you. - Nora Ephron
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before. - W.H. Auden
It's amazing to be a woman because even without children of your own, you can still be an excellent mother. - Gugu Mona
There is a girl.I named her love.She has a father. His name is desire.Her mother has a name,but not always the same. We call her destiny.Love calls her mommy. - Debasish Mridha
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized. - Adi Shankaracarya
There is such a thing as crazy-mother bonding. . . . It happens when one realizes the other also has had a crazy mother, and it is both painful and pleasurable. There are more crazy mothers than you might think. - Minrose Gwin
A woman has but two loves in life: the one who broke her heart and the one she spends the rest of her life with."- Carolyn Chase, former Broadcast Journalist and heroine Kate Theodore's mother - Liz Newman
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow. - Rita Rudner
The only thing between you and success is your thinking. Defeatist thoughts are the mother of inaction. - Iimani David
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
"One cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband, and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman’s selfhood and her dreams." Mother to Sherlock, Mycroft, and Enola Holmes by author Nancy Springer - Vannessa Anderson
I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask, Mother, what was war? - Eve Merriam
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house. - Beverly Cleary
In every man, there is a child. In every woman, there is a mother. - Santosh Kalwar
A government that kills its own citizens is like a parent that kills their own kids aka filicide or like a mother that kills her unborn by abortion . - Youns Hussein
My mother is a never ending song in my heart of comfort, happiness, and being.I may sometimes forget the words but I always remember the tune.I love my mom! - Farooq Shah
A good mother does not live only for her children. She always has some bond with other mothers, no matter what class, nationality or race they may be. All mothers have the same joys, the same sorrows, the same anxieties. All mothers think first of their child and of children. - Werenfried Von Straaten
My mother once said that having a small child is like having a permanently drunk houseguest. - Moira Hodgson
I'm not sure how much easier it is for a mother to balance her life now - have we simply swapped one set of restrictions for another? - Sara Sheridan
It went automatically to a heavy-weight mother with beetling eyebrows who looked as if she had just come from doing a spot of knitting at the foot of the guillotine. - P.G. Wodehouse
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one. - Jill Churchill
I love you the way a knife loves a heart, the way a bomb loves a crowd, the way your mother warned you about, essentially. - E. Horne and J. Comeau
One can survive every hurt and move on, except the hatred of a mother formed without reasons, that one could not elucidate. - Darmie Orem
A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing ‘Sleep sweet sleep’. (The Children of Ankh series) - Kim Cormack
The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. - Nancy E. Turner
You may have learned from your mother or any other hunted woman. Smiling at devils is a useful learned thing. Swallowing discomfort down in spades. Holding it tight in your belly. Ageing on the inside only. Keeping it forever sexy. - Yrsa Daley-Ward
My mother buried three husbands ... and two of them were only napping. - Rita Rudner
No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. - Margaret Sanger
If we take care the Nature it will be our careful Mother. - Jan Jansen
Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun. - Larry Niven
When Mother Nature speaks, even the Gods hold silence. - Abhijit Naskar
Never hurt a woman because she is someone’s mother or will be someone’s mother. Could you hurt your mother? - Debasish Mridha
Sometimes, somehow...I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,that mourns over terrible great sin done by men. - Toba Beta
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. - George Washington
When I was a kid, I used think that my mother has some kind of magic in her hands because the same food eaten by her hands, tasted different.And now when I am grown up.. I am sure.. she has some magic in her hands.. - Himmilicious
A woman is a blissful mother, a wonderful sister, a gorgeous daughter, and a friend with a kind heart who really cares. Wishing you a wonderful International Women’s Day - Debasish Mridha
Mother Earth has never been more crowded, yet her inhabitants have never been more lonely. - Anasazi Foundation
Move on, sky is not limit, wind can touch you, water can dip you, mother will care you, wife will nurture you and above all, oneday you will see your child following, up above the sky; you became a star, twinkling, watching and waiting to come back again, on earth. - Santosh Kalwar
We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, killings, of wars, or of hatred...If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other? - Mother Teresa
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones. - Victor Hugo
When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it's a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway. - Erma Bombeck
My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sometimes when Anna is talking to Louise she sees words coming out of her mouth like fistfuls of stones. But she doesn't intend to spew stones; it's simply the only way Anna knows how to takl to her mother. - Jessica Anya Blau
Diligence is the mother of good luck. - American Proverb
Faith is a natural evolutionary trait of the human mind, selected by Mother Nature as an internal coping-mechanism. - Abhijit Naskar
A word mother, means a world to me. - Auliq-Ice
Even God would say"Finish the task you have undertaken". He would never recommend breaking her mother's heart, damaging her parents' lives. "Your mother and then your mother and then your mother," the Prophet had said, "and then your father." But what about her own life? What is to become of that? - Ahdaf Soueif
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. - Florida Scott-Maxwell
In most stories she knows, children have a mother and a father, like Iphigenia had Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, and Helen had Leda and Zeus. Sometimes they have teachers too, but not always, and they never seem to have sergeants. - M.R. Carey
If necessity is the mother of invention, then surely greed must be the father. Children of this odd couple are named: Laziness, Envy, Greed, Jr., Gluttony, Lust, Anger and Pride. - John R. Dallas Jr.
For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know. - George R.R. Martin
The only god visible to my eyes is "My Mother - sarav
My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up. - Donald E. Westlake
you can pass a football,you can gas,but you yourself cannot just pass~cam after lilly's mother informs her that lilly has passed - Wendy Wunder
Ignorance is the mother of admiration.
My mother, who taught me how to read and write and home-schooled me for the first 12 years of my life, whose presence shaped me as much as her absence did, who imbibed in me the values of empathy and fearlessness and hard work, looks down on me today with great pride. - Sharad Vivek Sagar
She thinks of her mother, sitting cross-legged, sewing marigolds into garlands for the gods, telling her: "The biggest mistake we make is thinking we are powerless - Isha Karki
How in the world do you tellyour wife that her mother was born a unicon? - Bruce Coville
My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes... - Adriana Trigiani
Reality is Like Mother NatureSometimes BeautifulSometimes Painful Sometimes Memorable Sometimes ForgetfulSometimes CaringSometimes HarshBut we all Accept it Because its the Same For EVERYONE! - Look Im A Cat
Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. - Samuel Smiles
it was always something what we did or said, and there would be this flash, and then it didn't subside. all your past sins would be brought up, it was just endless. and my mother attributed it sometimes to having neuralgia, but she never showed that outwardly - Alice Schroeder
If there were something that Mother Nature or God could do with money, She or He would have sold immortality to the rich a long time ago. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
It takes a female to have a baby,It takes a woman to raise a child,It takes a mother to raise them correctly,It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world. - Shannon L. Alder
It seemed like an unachievable goal for one person to bring sunshine to one hundred little faces when what they need is a mother apiece. - Jean Webster
Ever since I was 12 years old, my mother have always taught me to learn to be a leader. To start learning now! When you have the time to take time to learn and have every chance to be mentored. Don't be ashamed to be high maintenance when it comes to development. - Janna Cachola
For the hand of a beauty with honest words and sensibilities so mighty.Though your mother and father had hoped for something more fragile (and flighty), - Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney
A mother is an irreplaceable gift that God has given every mankind. Your (a child's) duty is to honour, adore, respect and serve her. Your blessings are tied in how honour she felt. - Wisdom Kwashie Mensah
To profoundly understand a baby, you must first be a mother. - Debasish Mridha
When your mother and your father are having a fight, do you want them to kill each other? Or do you just want them tostop fighting? - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Motherhood is a blissful chain...I have a mother - my precious gift...I am a mother - the best of my kind! - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
A great woman has three identities: a lovely daughter, a passionate lover, and a kind mother. - Debasish Mridha
Mother's ways are higher than others, even when everyone rejects, mother accepts with her arms open and wide. - Amit Ray
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
My mother is a living angel; she is always protecting me with the wings of her love. - Debasish Mridha
He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother. - Augustine of Hippo
We have no peace because we have forgotten that we all came from the same mother. We are brothers and sisters. - Debasish Mridha
The newborn has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breatfeeding satisfies all three. - Grantly Dick-Read
How like God's love yours has been to me- so wise, so generous, and so unsparing!" exclaimed Pancratius. "Promise me one thing more- that is, that you will stay near to me to the end, and carry my last legacy to my mother. - Cardinal Wiseman
Truth is the mother of hatred. - Ausonius
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life. - W. Somerset Maugham
Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan. - Gary L. Francione
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. - Albert Ellis
Time is the mother of truth. - Khalid Masood
OUR MOTHER EARTH CAN LIVE WITHOUT US BUT WE CANT LIVE WITHOUT HER - Lennon alipio
Ryder Delaney was the one imperfection in my life.He was the bad boy,black sheep,the one your mother always warned you about.He had only one hard-and-fast rule-Don't Fall In Love - Paige Weaver
Women often forget that the man she is complaining about is a creation of a mother like her. - Debasish Mridha
It's okay to be proud of your good English. But don't be proud of being poor at your Mother tongue. Only the scum of the earth do that. - Manasa Rao Saarloos
You are never old enough to lose your mother. - Linda Kinnamon RN
My mother said to me, if you go into the military, you will become a general. If you go into the clergy, you will become Pope. Instead, I became an artist, and I am Piccaso.
A woman should have not only equal rights but much more rights than men because she is our sacred and beloved mother. - Debasish Mridha
You can't fool Mother Nature, and you can't fool market forces (at least not for long) - Richard McKenzie
You never forget the books you loved as a kid. You never forget the poems you memorized, the first book you read until the cover fell off, the book you read hidden from your mother. What an honor to hold hands with a child's imagination in this way. - Meg Medina
Difficult but worth it-- that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi. - Kamila Shamsie
The charismatic portrait of the modern leadership looks nothing like Fidel Castro. It is a faceless portrait that epitomizes the toughness of Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela's charisma, and the most compassionate heart of Mother Theresa. - Anthony Obi Ogbo
and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last. - Khaled Hosseini
My mother often said, as long as a person is happy at work, then poverty is nothing to be ashamed of. - Yu Hua
I've always liked Anna, but according to my mother, her family is complete New Money, and my grandmother has pointed out on several occasions that they're not even really Southern. - Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War
Biologically speaking, you are the child of Mother Nature, and neurologically speaking, you are the heirs of immortal bliss. - Abhijit Naskar
Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude. - Irvin D. Yalom
When a rich man's dog died, everyone commiserated. When a poor man lost his mother, no one noticed.
Like Mother Theresa, your greatness unfolds by the kindness you show to the weakest members of humanity. - Debasish Mridha
Distrust won’t do good to you.But still if you ever do.Doubt you husband,Maybe doubt your wife.But never suspect,your kid’s father,or the mother of your child. - Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Tall and thin, Mademoiselle Baptistine was a pale and gentle person. She was the incarnation of the word 'respectable,' whereas to be 'venerable,' a woman should lso be a mother. - Victor Hugo
Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers. - Warsan Shire
I was a normal person, living in a rough area with a foreign mother, I endured it and came out of the other side to help hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to change their lives just like I had mine. - Stephen Richards
With red clay between my toes,and the sun setting over my head,the ghost of my mother blows in,riding on a honeysuckle breeze, oh lord,riding on a honeysuckle breeze. - Brenda Sutton Rose
The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said. - Samuel Beckett
Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal. - David Assael
Don’t be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about. - Lorde
As if you are their mother, be kind to others. - Debasish Mridha
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors. - Maya Angelou
My name is , and I'm an Arkansas Razorback. My father is a Jew from Little Rock, Ark., my mother was a Christian from Harrison, Ark., and somehow I'm an atheist now living in L.A. I am a Razorback living in the Razorback diaspora. - Matt Besser
My books are friends that never fail me."(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817) - Thomas Carlyle
If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap? - Steven Wright
His Nana's prayers were moving toward his mother like little butterflies of thoughts wrapped in the most beautiful colors. Each prayer looked like a mini-rainbow. - H. L. Balcomb
What-what do you want?" Annabeth asked, trying to maintain a tone of confidence.The voice cackled maliciously.'To curse you, of course! To destroy you thousand times in the name of Mother Night!'"Only a thousand times?" Percy murmured. "Oh, good...I thought we were in trouble. - Rick Riordan
You breathe.You feel.You seeand hearand smelland tasteand thinkand moveand laughand weepand healand danceand singand love.Thank your mother. - Richelle E. Goodrich
It is not what to do, but how much love we put into the doing. We can do not greats, only small things with great love." - Mother Theresa - Mother Teresa
Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris - Martin Luther King Jr.
Think of your mother and smile for all of the good precious moments. - Ana Monnar
We can do more for the peace just by changing our thoughts. Be an example of compassion and kindness like Mother Teresa. We all can do that without harming anyone. - Debasish Mridha
My mother always told meNo monster lived beneath my bed,But she had failed to warn meIt laid on top of it instead. - Erin Hanson
Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover. - Matt Groening
I don't know what it is about food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory. - Mitch Albom
There is No Greater Satisfaction God greater then mother. - Suraj Dahal
Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality. Mother Jones November/December 1997. - Huston Smith
Mother Teresa said that she couldn't imagine doing her work for more than thirty minutes without prayer. Do you and I have work that we can't imagine doing for thirty minutes without prayer? - Gary Haugen
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. - Marya Mannes
Creativity is the mother of invention. - Ane Krstevska
No one is blessed to love more than one to the peak level except mother! - Nelson Jack
I wanted to explore this idea that the bogey man in the closet is scary, but being a mother is scarier. - Joe Hill
Quality speaks by itself. Rightly communicated it creates Joy. Like an Infant needs no words to express to her mother. Any success of communication enhances beauty of both, which too needs no words to endorse. - Priyavrat Thareja
My favourite thing is when my mother goes in the other to go and to talk to the phone, I use that moment for wisdom. - Deyth Banger
Being a single mother should not stop you from helping your children to reach their full potential. - Gugu Mona
I really can't come to your party Mrs. Parker, I can't bear fools." That's strange; your mother could. - Dorothy Parker
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober." - G. K. Chesterton
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful? - Mahatma Gandhi
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. - Benjamin Spock
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. - James Thurber
...wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen. - David Whyte
A praying mother symbolizes grace, strength and wisdom; she is an icon of productivity and ingenuity. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
I thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong. - Scott Spencer
your mother is the longest magic show you will ever seeno one knows how her face is target practice for her partner and a shield for her childrenhow she makes a mouthful of blood disappearerases bruiseshardens teethhow she wakes up and dresses her children beforedressing her wounds - Nia Afyah
Mother and wife are saints,If they are not together - A G Maran
Forgetting nature is like forgetting your mother. Remember you are a child of nature. You are connected to it and belong to it. So don’t forget to protect her. - Debasish Mridha
Nature understands you more than you understand nature. Nature is your true mother. - Debasish Mridha
Silence is the mother of truth. - Benjamin Disraeli
Knowledge is power and at the end of the day, our health, the health of our children, the health of our community, and the health of Mother Earth is our responsibility. Therefore, it is imperative that we understand the human and environmental affects of the products that we buy. - Obiora Embry
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children - William Makepeace Thackeray
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father. - Jean de La Bruyère
Last night I did things my mother told me not to with the people I shouldn't see in the places that I should not go.. - Nick Santino
What is Poverty? A hateful good; a mother of health; a putting away of cares; a discoverer of wisdom; business without injury; ownership without calumny; happiness without anxiety. - Secundus the Silent
No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother. - Margaret Sanger
As my mother said, I never sprang out of bed with a glad shout! My voice needed oiling and then it took off.
He who is truly honest with his words will be shown instantly ,upon his speaking , by the mother nature the picture first of the people who are either the worst or the best to him and others of his nature. - Anuj Somany
People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you. - Amit Kalantri
I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to. - Pamela Anderson
Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow. - Yoko Ono
Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. - Rita Rudner
There is no other like a mother. - Debasish Mridha
Mother Earth taught me that my angertoward nature was unfounded.And she therefore invited me to open my heart to thispossibility: so too may be my anger toward man. - Anasizi Foundation Good Buffalo Eagle
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