Quotes of: Mother-teresa Keyword

A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.

The Color Purple

Don't get mad about the infestation of fleas if you keep shopping at the dog pound.

The Forbidden Secrets of the Goody Box: Relationship Advice That Your Father Didn't Tell You and Your Mother Didn't Know

A good mother... when you CRY, she CARRIES you; when you are HUNGRY, she will HURRY to feed you; when you are about to SLEEP, she SINGS for you! Long live good mothers! Thank you mama!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces ...

Handle with Care

Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it from her father. But whomever she got it from she was certainly a talker.

Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown

Friends who love us know that motherhood is about transitioning--and adjusting, constantly, to those changes. We must become masters of change because that is what life demands of us.

The 10 Habits of Happy Mothers: Reclaiming Our Passion, Purpose, and Sanity

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.

If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

I believe all women know in their heart of hearts that they truly are divine and magical, even if they've temporarily forgotten.

If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

Dreams won't always take you on a straight path to destiny, but they're usually related to what your soul wants for you.

If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

Mother Nature is our teacher—reconnecting us with Spirit, waking us up and liberating our hearts. When we can transcend our fear of the creatures of the forest, then we become one with all that is; we enter a unity of existence with our relatives�...

Joy of Bears

The air was fresh and crisp and had a distinct smell which was a mixture of the dried leaves on the ground and the smoke from the chimneys and the sweet ripe apples that were still clinging onto the branches in the orchard behind the house.

Recipes and Recollections: Treats and Tales from Our Mother's Kitchen

A (wo)men travels the world over in search of wht (s)he needs and returns home to find it

Recipes to Remember: My Epicurean Journey to Preserve My Mother's Italian Cooking from Memory Loss

Woods are grim places. Farmers shoot squirrels, crows, magpies, and hang them up on trees to warn Mother Nature to get it together or else. Much notice she takes, being in league with God. They're a right pair, more carnage than the rest of us put to...

The Rich and the Profane

Although I notice there is never a truly good time to have a nice long chat with one´s mother-in-law, unless you are having an extraordinary life and marriage and your mother-in-law is, say, Maureen Dowd, or Indira Gandhi. Someone of that ilk.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.

Mrs. Sappho: The Life Of C. A. Dawson Scott, Mother Of International P. E. N

Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.

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

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I believe I can achieve something in my life.

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

I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you make me love her more. She is unjustly treated by you, and I must make the balance even.

North and South

What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from the dim, conjectural dawn of history. But being human they were as apt to change as mother nature to remain constant.

One Man Caravan

I was so happy that my mother, father, and two brothers had somehow found one another. Perhaps my mother and father have gotten back together, I thought.

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier