Mother Quotes - Page 51

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter.

Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.

To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

Children should have a balanced start in life: a mother and a father. I think that's the only reason to get married.

You are not your mother, your father, your history, or your cultural influences. You are uniquely and originally you. Be bold and daring and fearless and unconventional. Be willing to use your voice in service to your soul. Go on. Rock that damn boat. The wave you create might just change the world.

Like everyone else in the world, I've been devastated by the loss and suffering of so many in South Asia....As a mother, I cannot imagine the pain that they are experiencing. We can all see that it's going to take a long time for those people to rebuild their lives, and they will need our help for years to come.

Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.

I feel sorry for people of good heart who have never had a chance to learn the realities of Native American everything - not just our history but the sweetness and the beauty and the reasons why were so close to Mother Earth.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts which gleam like mother-of-pearl, over the Ruhr or the city of Frankfurt, it is as though there were no people, only the things they have made and in which they are hiding.

The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.

Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind.

Laziness is the mother of all evils.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

The Mother of the universe is the Mother of all. From Her have come out both good and evil.

I can never refuse anyone who addresses me as Mother.

My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.

Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in the 1930s, attributed his success to the way his mother used to greet him when he came home from school each day. "Did you ask any good questions today, Isaac?" she would say.

Jack the Ripper's mother, who said to Jack, How come I never see you with the same girl twice? Never got a dinner!