Mother Quotes - Page 158

Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.

The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came in and said, 'Lionel, my wife loves you, the kids love you, my mother-in-law loves you, the family loves you.

My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.

All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.

Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.

I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate.

But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.

My mother's side of the family is from the Bahamas, and I spent time there on and off when I was growing up. It's the place where I feel at peace.

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

I used to play my records aloud until one night my mother was like, "This is too loud. I'm not having it," and so I put on headphones. But the headphones didn't stretch all the way to my bed from the record player, so I had to sleep on the floor in order to hear the records. I slept on the floor right next to the record player until I was probably 19 years old.

The loneliness is the mother of wisdom.

I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with an apron on.' And I thought, that's right, honey, you did not. That was his concept of what a mother should be.

The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

There is a thing inherent and natural which existed before heaven and earth. Motionless and fathomless, It stands alone and never changes; It pervades everywhere and never becomes exhausted. It may be regarded as the Mother of the Universe. I do not know its name. If I am forced to give It a name, I call it Tao, and I name it as supreme.

Thinking about the women that you know: your friends, sisters, mothers, we know that we are kind of stereotyped. You like sports, you're a tomboy. There are all of these labels ,which is natural for us as a society to do, but it's just really about reminding women of the power that we have inside of us and that you can do anything you put your mind to. You don't want to get stuck. You don't want to get stuck in your own mind.

Faith is a strong word in my life. That's one thing my mother has always stressed to me.

Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter.

Every time I see a cardinal, I know my grandmother is with me. This regal, red bird was Grandma's favorite.

Though the white man is a kind of Satan, and though the black man is Satan for selling his own children into bondage and assassinating the image of his own mother, because he himself wants to be white'I can assure you that Africa has known no greater Satan than the twins, Arab and Islam.

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

Motherhood puts everything into perspective, changes the way you look at life, and your perspective of what's actually important.

Always and Forever is a Grandmothers love