Quotes About Mother

I love JFK. My mother had been a worker on his campaign and adored him.

You're thinking about one woman while trying to reach another, and despite this apparent abundance of women, you feel lonely and desolate as hell, and, almost unconsciously, you drive to the house of a third, and the third woman is your mother. It has to be unconscious, because conscious, you'd know right away that it's a big mistake. Somewhere, there's a therapist sitting alone in his office, staring wistfully at his door, wishing for a patient like you.

The book was something of a national phenomenon and turned my mother into something of a celebrity expert on parenting. Predictably, my siblings and I were screwed up beyond all repair.

The Great Mother impels—pushes (with certainty of mortality) and pulls (with possibility of redemption)—development of consciousness and of self-consciousness.

Chaos is mater, origin, source, mother; materia, the substance from which all things are made.

Imagine a toddler repeatedly striking his mother in the face. Why would he do such a thing? It's a stupid question. It's unacceptably naive. The answer is obvious. To dominate his mother. To see if he can get away with it. Violence, after all, is no mystery. It's peace that's the mystery. Violence is the default.

The Oedipal mother makes a pact with herself, her children, and the devil himself. The deal is this: "Above all, never leave me.

It's not for nothing that the Holy Mother and Infant is a divine image—as we just discussed. Societies that cease to honour that image—that cease to see that relationship as of transcendent and fundamental importance—also cease to be.

El caos, lo desconocido, se asocia simbólicamente con lo femenino. Eso se debe en parte a que todas las cosas que hemos ido conociendo nacieron en un primer momento de lo desconocido, de la misma forma que todos los seres con los que nos hemos encontrado nacieron de madres. El caos es mater, origen, fuente, madre; materia, la sustancia de la que están hechas las cosas.

Imagine a toddler repeatedly striking his mother in the face. Why would he do such a thing? It's a stupid question. It's unacceptably naive. The answer is obvious. To dominate his mother. To see if he can get away with it. Violence, after all, is no mystery. It's peace that's the mystery. Violence is the default. It's easy. It's peace that is difficult: learned, inculcated, earned.

Curiosamente defendía a su madre. No podía culparla. Se había visto empujada a hacer cuanto hizo. Quererla representaba una deuda, un pago, su propio compromiso. Y la posibilidad de facilitarle la paz interior.

Mas ele guarda seu segredo. É uma coisa tão grande demais encontrar na terra uma mãe que já morreu. Dalva não o entenderia.

La naturaleza es la más amorosa de las madres cuando el dolor se ha adueñado de nuestra alma; y si la felicidad nos acaricia, ella nos sonríe

La tierra es madre de todos, pero también da ponzoña

Do you remember that night, that stormy night when you, seeing me alone and crying next to my mother's lifeless body, came toward me and put your hand on my shoulder, the hand that for so long you refused to let me hold, and said to me: 'You have lost your mother, I ever had one.' And you cried with me. [...] Could I ever forget you?

The author of 2 Enoch follows a tradition in which an aged mother, who had been barren up to her deathbed, miraculously conceived Melchizedek without human intervention. Before she was able to give birth to the baby she died. The baby then emerged from her dead body with the maturity of a three-year-old boy.

35. There were three women named Mary (Bitter) who walked with the Lord all the time. They were his mother, his sister and Mary of Magdala, who was his consort (companion). Thus his mother, his sister and companion (consort) were all named Mary.

And an unaware witch means a witch who doesn't know she's a witch, and because she's a women that makes her double trouble. Never trust a women." My mothers a women," I said, suddenly feeling a little angry, "and I trust her." Mothers are usually women," said the Spook. "And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out!

I have become the mother of death.

he realized that this visit, all his visits, were really trips to a cemetery, paying respects at the grave, the way they had visited his father's, flowers in hand, his mother solemn, Leon bored and uncomfortable, not knowing, as he did now, that she wasn't visiting his father but some younger part of herself, what she used to be.

Green eyes like his mother's. Like beautiful marble. You could catch the fever from somebody's eyes.

Meine Mutter, wiewohl wachsam und wiewohl Lehrerin, war niemand, der ausdrücklich Orientierung offerierte, und vielleicht ist es sogar ihr zuzuschreiben, dass ich Liebe ganz selbstverständlich mit einem in Schweigen verfallenen Haus assoziiere.

I'd bet a moon of dawn patrols those apprentices had something to do with it," Birchfall meowed. "Why else would they disappear back to ShadowClan without their mother?" Dustpelt let out a snort of amusement. "I can just picture those three holding Blackstar down until he agreed.

With this life I give you protection," she told him. "Use it well to care for your Clan as a mother cares for her kits.