Quotes About Experience

What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.

Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of New York.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

My mother was my Girl Scout leader, and George's mother was his Cub Scout leader. In fact, that's when some say her hair turned white.

It was no great tragedy being Judy Garland's daughter. I had tremendously interesting childhood years - except they had little to do with being a child.

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.

My mother always used to say: 'The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana.'

I also want to go to an Italian island and do cuisine properly with some famous Italian chef and, like, his mother.

My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.

I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.

It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I was once like you and liked to do the wild thing.

Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

I really felt the growth of myself as a human being, as a person [becoming a mother].

Nothing is ever going to describe in words what your mother looked like at twenty when the moonlight just fell on her face in such a way. Only a picture can show you that.

I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.

I have lovely memories of Los Angeles in the 1930s. I came down to live with my mother's cousin and they invited me to come and go to junior college for a year.