Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.

Wherever You Go, There You Are

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

Woe to Live On

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

Benjamin Spock

I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.

Candice Olson

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.

Charles Perrault

For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best friend while that person's gone - the mother and father if you have kids.

Jessy Schram

Kingsley Amis was a lenient father. His paternal style, in the early years, can best be described as amiably minimalist - in other words, my mother did it all.

Martin Amis

I used to have seizures when I was young. My mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.

Prince

When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.

Shirley Knight

I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.

Sidney Poitier

In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best: They check out. They say, 'Ask your mother.'

Steve Schirripa

I dress in a sophisticated and classy way - I always dress in a way I know my mother wouldn't be embarrassed to see.

Jessie Ware

And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

Julian Castro

I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be.

Nicki Minaj

The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.

Naomi Watts

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

Peter Abrahams

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.

Poppy Z. Brite

I remember the day my mother died, and it's still hard to talk about it. I just blocked it out.

Peaches Geldof

I just feel like everyone and their mother thinks they can be an artist. You can't. Sorry. I know I was born to be one.

Paz de la Huerta