Quotes of: Mother-teresa Keyword

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

Walter Bagehot

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.

William Blake

Mother, you have my father much offended.

William Shakespeare

When the child is ill, the mother will know how to pray.

Wasif Ali Wasif

Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

Yoko Ono

I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

Adam Sandler

My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.

Caitlin Flanagan

My mother always said I should have a back-up profession if the acting doesn't work out.

Gina Bellman

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

Carre Otis

We all know that television is better for women as they get into their 40s. You could be more three-dimensional, not just the wife or the mother.

Dana Delany

I think women who lead full lives are better mothers.

Jada Pinkett Smith

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Oscar Wilde

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

Patricia Hill Collins

But she wasn't a wife and mother. And, Joey aside, she didn't want to be one. Her mother had spend every last minute cooking for Papa, cleaning for Papa, looking nice for Papa, entertaining for Papa, producing babies for Papa. The measuring stick she...

Fair Play

We say, "It wasn't that bad. It was all my fault. I’m making all this stuff up. " All my life, I spoke bitterly of my mother's treatment of me as a child. Friends asked, “What did she do to you?“ I couldn't really describe it, and in frustratio...

Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder

July 15, 1991 Nita: Mv mother was a paragon of our neighborhood, People always come up to us with hugs, saying "You have the most wonderful mother." l'd think. “Don't you see what's going on in this house?” To this day, if somehow even in jest ra...

Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder

I had uncovered a widely held but overlooked attachment: our attachment to the view that every problem must have a solution. We delude ourselves that we can think our way out of a problem or we see it as a matter of finding the right person to advise...

Buddhism for Mothers of Young Children: Becoming a Mindful Parent

When I ask French parents what they most want for their children, they say things like "to feel comfortable in their own skin" and "to find their path in the world." They want their kids to develop their own tastes and opinions. In fact, French paren...

Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information....my mother called me to set the table for dinner. She sat me down in the kitchen, and under the classic caveat of 'loving each other very,...

I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Jamie reflected that if he purposely went down to the crags of the Pacific and threw himself to the sharks, when he came before God and his father and mother, he could carry no smiling secret on his face. He would not have kept the faith. He would ha...

The Keeper of the Bees

She had watched other women with infants and eventually understood what she craved: the boundless permission-no, the absolute necessity- to hold and kiss and stroke this tiny person. Cradling a swaddled infant in their arms, mothers would distractedl...

The Snow Child