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Quotes About Mother

Majka svaki put ustraje u tomu da se prilikom tzv. -»davanja koncerata«, koji su slatka nagrada za uporno vježbanje, širom otvore prozori na ku?i kako bi u ?arobnim melodijama mogli uživati svi susjedi. Majka i baka tada stoje pored prozora, naoružane dalekozorom, i s visine svoga brijega promatraju jesu li susjeda i cijela njena obitelj sjeli pored stare ma?ke na klup?icu ispred ku?e poslušno slušaju?i »koncert«.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
By not encouraging injuries, a mother avoids having to close wounds later on. Erika's mother prefers inflicting injuries herself, then supervising the therapy.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
When the time came to sell cookies, my mother, to whom few things could have been more shameful than the idea of my going door-to-door trying to sell anything, sold all the cookies herself, to her own mother. Ten years later, when I was visiting my grandmother in Ankara, I found them in the pantry: thirty unopened boxes of Girl Scout cookies. "Why didn't you eat your cookies?" I asked. "Oh, they're cookies? I thought they were candles," said my grandmother.
~ Elif Batuman
It couldn't have been depressing, because my mother had worked so hard to make it not be depressing. And yet—was it possible that how hard my mother worked was part of why it had been depressing?
~ Elif Batuman
My mother said that that had been wrong. She said that children were people, whose dignity and privacy were worthy of respect. She was the only person I had ever met or heard of who thought or said anything like that.
~ Elif Batuman
On language—from the mother tongue came our father's sins.
~ Anthony Marais
the despair displayed by young children on loss of their mother is a normal response to frustration of their absolute need for her presence ... children usually manage to survive, it is true, but at the cost of developing a defensive attitude to emotional detachment, and by becoming self-absorbed and self-reliant to an unusual degree. Typically, they are left with lasting doubts about their capacity to elicit care and affection.
~ Anthony Stevens
He wondered what could have possibly happened with his predecessor to make her cross the street in tears. Had it been him they would have been tears of boredom. He remembered what his mother had told him when he was a child: "Waiting is doing what you don't want until you get to do what you want." He would bide his time in the new sinecure, waiting for Francis.
~ Antoine Wilson
A mother is so,so selfish that she even cooks the dish for her children only of her own liking only ,but asks them as what they want to have to merely see if their food demand matches with her wish.
~ Anuj Somany
A woman is so jealous that she often compares herself with her mother's personality and even feels envious of her mom's beauty, so how it could happen that she spares others & her mother-in-law.
~ Anuj Somany
Mother is often the most selfish and Mother-In-Law is highly likely to be the most devilish
~ Anuj Somany
Mother is the most selfish and a man's Mother-in-law is the most devilish to him and a person who does not subscribe to this belief should do invariably a thorough introspection.
~ Anuj Somany
Often have seen a person who professes a profuse love for own mother on social media actually uses her for getting Likes on own facial beauty and/or garnering some publicity only.
~ Anuj Somany
The more a mother intrudes with her advice into her married daughter's house, the more she spoils her daughter's relationship with the spouse.
~ Anuj Somany
The more a wife brings own mother's advice to her house, the more she wants her husband to act like a meeky mouse and that often causes feud with her spouse.
~ Anuj Somany
It was a stalemate Silas was willing to live with, and apparently, so was his mother. They both knew it wasn't about the hem on a pair of pants. One of them was mourning, the other was not, and their individual reactions to Amos's disappearance created a powerful tension. The air in the house was charged with it.
~ Ari Berk
because an infant is born with only 25 percent of its adult brain volume, "its physiological systems are unable to function optimally without contact with the mother's body, which continues to regulate the baby much like it did during gestation." McKenna
~ Arianna Huffington
And do you too grunt with joy and follow your mother, my little pigs?
~ Aristophanes
My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.
~ Arlen Specter
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
~ Arnold Bennett
I told my friends that my worst nightmare would be to feel somebody shaking me and hear my mother's voice say, "Arnold, you overslept! You have to get up! You're going to be two hours late for work. Hurry! You have to get to the factory!" And I'd be saying, "Noooo! Why did you wake me up? I was having the most incredible dream. I want to see how it turns out.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
Je kunt het de mensen niet vragen van je te houden, het is te veel gevraagd. Alleen van je moeder mag je dat vragen.
~ Arnon Grunberg
Quality of life is very important in France. I have many friends who turned down promotions and more money because it would affect their quality of life as a couple or a mother.
~ Mireille Guiliano
She's my mother and the Queen.
~ Princess Anne