Quotes by Mother Sometimes, when I have to learn the lines in German and French, it's that much more difficult because it doesn't just sink in automatically, organically. I have to memorize it. It's a tricky thing, as well, as when you improvise, sometimes you want to say something but you don't know how to put it. It's more difficult than in your mother tongue. It's a challenge but, at the age of fifteen, I put myself up for it and I was aware that it would be an obstacle and many times. Alicja Bachleda-Curus age challenges mother Although I am good at enumerating my father’s flaws, it’s hard for me to sustain much anger at him. I expect this is partly because he’s dead, and partly because the bar is lower for fathers than it is for mothers. Alison Bechdel bars mother father Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow. Alison Bechdel yeah mother You are wrong when you say there is no power in being a woman. When I think of my mother and the women in my tribe, and the hidden women in the harem, I know there are many types of power in this world...I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life? I don't think I could do it. Alison Goodman mother lying thinking Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention. Alison Gopnik technology mother play People talked about being a parent, or being a mother or a father. We don't talk about "wiving" our husbands or "friending" our friends, or "childing" our parents. We just talk about being in a relationship with those people. You don't measure whether your marriage was good based on whether or not your husband is better now than he was 10 years ago, or whether your friend is richer than when they first became your friend. The relationships between parents and children is a kind of love, rather than a kind of work. Alison Gopnik husband mother children Teachers have had a great effect on me as a child. I've always loved school and had a great appetite for learning. I cried when it was time to go back home and tried to jump from my mother's moving car to run back there. Alison Hawthorne Deming mother running teacher For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible. Alison Lohman selfish daughter mother Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now Alison McGhee mother boys son When I saw contestants fighting for their lives on 'The Biggest Loser,' I realized I just wanted to be healthy - to have fun playing soccer with my son or teaching my daughter to shoot hoops. Then it was so much easier to say no to carbs, soda, or dessert, and the weight just came off. Alison Sweeney daughter mother soccer Children should be able to see the Gospel modeled in the way their father loves their mother with a sacrificial love. Alistair Begg mother father children Ladies, [motherhood] is a full-time job. Do not kid yourself that you can be a dental receptionist and a mother; that you can be a typist and a mom; that you can be a Vice President and a mom. One of the two things will win. Now look at your Bible and ask what you have to do. Alistair Begg mom mother jobs It is one of the many merits of this admirable biography of Proust's mother that it invites one to return to the novel with perhaps a fuller understanding of Proust's heredity, hinterland, and upbringing. . . . This fascinating book is full of interesting social and cultural observation, of information about French Jewish life, the position of Jews in society and, of course, the Dreyfus case. But it is essentially a study of one of the most remarkable and fruitful of mother-son relationships. As such it is a book that every Proustian will want to read. Allan Massie mother book son Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive Allen Tate swimming light mother And do respect the women of the world; remember you all had mothers. Allen Toussaint mother remembers-you remember-you The mother-in-laws themselves weren't natural jokes but most comedians used to use that. Allen Toussaint comedian law mother My mother was a feminist and a divorcee who worked. She was very smart. Alley Mills smart feminist mother I really am a person that tries to take care of everyone before I take care of myself, so it's actually a new thing in my life that I'm really trying to take time for myself. I'm finding that it's helping so much to be a better person individually, but also a better wife and mother. Allison Holker wife mother trying Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head. Allison Pearson balls laughter mother My mother was a stay-at-home mom until I was about 11, when she got a job - and it was like a light came on inside her. It's not wrong to be passionate about your career. When you love what you do, you bring that stimulation back to your family. Allison Pearson mom mother jobs «1213141516171819202122»
