Quotes of: Mother-teresa Keyword

Very few writers thank their mothers for keen editorial insight; I'm happy to be the exception.

The Borrower

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

Jean Piaget

For a period of 17 years - from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old - my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.

Chiang Kai-shek

At an early age, my mother gave me this feeling that anything is possible, and I believe that.

Howard Schultz

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

Jeanne Moreau

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

Larry Elder

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

Michael Caine

My mother at the age of 65 decided she was going to run for mayor. She had never run for public office, and she decided she wanted to try and do some things for the community.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.

Troy Garity

When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.

Lil Mama

I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

Ziggy Marley

My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.

Harley Viera-Newton

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House.

Louise Mensch

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

Donald Barthelme

My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.

Jerry Saltz

Show me how to lactate, and I’ll be the best mother a father could be.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Love of democracy can be likened to a mother's love for her son.It must be cherished,nurtured and protected for all of time

American Amaranth

Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.

Anansi Boys

I knew my mother's limitations because they formed the marrow of my bones.

The Almost Moon

a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.

The Heroines