Quotes of: Mother-tongue Keyword

The trouble is, we are incurable sentimentalists. We insist on makin over historical characters to suit our preconceived notions of what they should be, chipping, sandpapering, and polishing each personality until it assumes what we consider the prop...

The Mother of Washington

I became a marine mom with the signing of a paper, but it would take a phone call, late one night, for me to fully absorb the impact this new title would have on my life.

A Mother's Side of War

Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.

Not Like My Mother: Becoming a Sane Parent After Growing Up in a Crazy Family

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.

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

Neglected but Undefeated I stand today living the life I was told I would never live all because my faith grew.

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

You'll never know the the outcome unless you just go out there and just do it.

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

I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.

'night, Mother

...I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it wasn't the truth, Jessie. Things don't have to be true to talk about 'em, you know.

'night, Mother

I remembered my father telling me when I was a little girl, "Guilt is bullshit. Don't ever let anyone make you feel guilty.

Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir

If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.

A Life For God: The Mother Teresa Reader

Elinor placed all that was astonishing in this way of acting to his mother's account; and it was happy for her that he had a mother whose character was so imperfectly known to her, as to be the general excuse for every thing strange on the part of he...

Sense and Sensibility

Mother nature changes her looks for the same reason any woman changes her looks—to be noticed.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

Children have rights outside their mother's womb without having to be victim's of Domestic Violence inside their mother's womb.

A Trap Of Malicious Blind Love A Memoir Of Sex, Seduction, Manipulation & Betrayal

I'll teach you," Tiger Lily offered with a shrug of her shoulders. "Did your mother teach you?" he asked. "I don't have a mother," she said. "Like you." For some reason, Peter was glad to hear it.

Tiger Lily

My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension inside her about who she wanted to be and what she wanted to do and how she couldn't achieve the things she wanted to.

Natalie Merchant

To Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands, Romy Schneider... To all actresses who have played actresses, to all women who act, to all men who act and become women, to all the people who want to be mothers. To my mother. - Dedication, Todo Sobre Mi Madre

Pedro Almodovar

My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My mother took in ironing and she was a waitress. My father was working in the factory and he did people's tax returns.

Patti Smith

My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this little needle going up and down joining fabric together that I'd use it when my mother went out to feed the chickens.

Philip Treacy

My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to hit London; there's only six people left, and one of them's in purple underwear. That was always my mother, running from this meteor in purple underwear and s...

Paula Yates

Each one of us comes out of our mother's body crying, with or without exceptions. But we are not aware of it. Are you? Do you remember that you cried the very first time you come out of your mother's body? If not, then why are you crying now?

Santosh Kalwar

David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.

Shaquille O'Neal