Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

Richard Louv

In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!

Ezra Taft Benson

I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.

Jerry B. Jenkins

I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

Joan Rivers

There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother's advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.

Phyllis Schlafly

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

Dilma Rousseff

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

Phyllis Schlafly

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

Siobhan Fahey

I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.

Julian Clary

In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and, tucked into the spare-tire well, one of my father's old, tobacco-stained shirts, for a smock.

Jill Lepore

The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

Paul Engle

You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.

Courteney Cox

When my dad needed a shirt ironed, he would yell downstairs to my mother, who would drop everything and iron his shirt.

Hope Davis

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

Lorna Luft

And after my mother's death I became more open to and empathetic about other people's struggles and losses.

Meghan O'Rourke

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

Diane Keaton

My mother enjoyed few things more than investing in the underdogs and showing them that they were special and could achieve their dreams.

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed, and she would share her dreams with me.

Liz Murray

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

David McCullough

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

Sue Kelly