Quotes of: Better-mother Keyword

[Korben is arguing with his mother on the phone] Korben's Mother: Oh, I get it. You wanna make make your only mother to beg. Is that it? Korben Dallas: No, I don't wanna make you beg. All I want is an explanation. Look, I just got in. I just smashed ...

The Fifth Element

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: Mother. Mother Sister Alberto: Yes? Alberto Granado: We want to eat. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: We deserve to eat like everyone else. Mother Sister Alberto: Yes, but you didn't go to mass. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: N...

The Motorcycle Diaries

Maria: Reverend Mother, I'm sorry. I couldn't help myself. -The hills were beckoning and... the sky was so blue today... and everything was so green and fragrant, I had to be a part of it. The Untersberg led me higher like it wanted me to go through ...

The Sound of Music

There was even a story passed among the queen’s court that when freshly hatched, Rhiannon bit her mother on the neck when she tried to cuddle her new daughter. But Rhiannon didn’t believe that for one second. True, she believed she bit her mother...

Dragon Actually

Not setting the 'proper and accepted' religious example for them conjured up images of the bad mother, the worst mother. Yet wouldn't the example of a mother being true to her journey, taking a stand against patriarchy, and questing for spiritual mea...

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter

The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes its children. That is why the paradigmatic poor family in the United States is a single mother ...

Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter

Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers. Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people's minds and know when anything unusual w...

The Mystery of the Hidden House

May each of us remember this truth; 'one cannot forget mother and remember God. One cannot remember mother and forget God.' Why? Because these two sacred persons, God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.

Pathways To Perfection: Discourses Of Thomas S. Monson

My mother used to tell me to be a leader, never a follower. As a respect to my the words of my mother, I cannot place my faith in God or anyone else, because if I do, I am merely a follower. In order to respect my mother's wishes, I had to dethrone G...

Lionel Suggs

In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while p...

Chuck Palahniuk

Animal Mother: I'm going first. Private Eightball: Now, back off, white bread! Don't get between a dog and his meat. Animal Mother: All fucking niggers must fucking hang! [responds to protests] Animal Mother: Hey, hey, I won't be long! I'll skip the ...

Full Metal Jacket

I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I s...

Quincy Jones

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

Harold Coffin

Being a good mother is being a hero. Right?

Necklace of Kisses

Opportunities are born by learning!

Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love

The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.

Orthodoxy

I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.

Mavis Staples

I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.

Bong Joon-ho

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

Honore de Balzac

My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere.

John Barrymore

I believe I was actually the first single mother in a major film.

Dee Wallace