Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.

Ben van Berkel

My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.

David Blaine

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought.

David Rockefeller

Overall, I think any opportunity to expose people to art on a mass level - to have some kid in Oklahoma say to his mother, 'I want to be an artist' - is a good thing.

Jeffrey Deitch

As a mother, I love the Leapster handheld because it really delivers on educating children while they play. My daughter enjoys it because it's fun and touches on all of the activities she is interested in - videos, books and art.

Marcia Gay Harden

He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark.

Armed and Dangerous

It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!

Are You My Mother?

You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world.

Abide With Me

Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.

Are You My Mother?

The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary. Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.

Ariel

My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died", said Riddle

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

The Iron Hunt

One, you moved here with your father, which means your a daddy's girl. No girl leaves their mother unless they are.

Ink

You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.

Killosophy

The more a daughter knows about the details of her mother's life - without flinching or whining - the stronger the daughter.

The Red Tent

Sometimes it's better to live without a mother than not to live at all.

A Small Free Kiss in the Dark

Long ago you were a dream in your mother's sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth.

Sand and Foam

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

Summer Island

Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.

Sleepless

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

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