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Quotes About Fear

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
~ Eartha Kitt
Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.
~ Ameen Rihani
Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.
~ Rebecca West
I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.
~ Spalding Gray
My mother, who hates thunderstorms, Holds up each summer day and shakes It out suspiciously, lest swarms Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there.
~ Philip Larkin
When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."
~ Andrew Sullivan
When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Fear, she's the mother of violence.
~ Peter Gabriel
Dont hurt me,'Caine whispered. He didnt have the will to look up at her. Gaia laughed. "Have you seen Mother? I seem to have lost her.
~ Michael Grant
My mother's five foot two and, I'll be honest with you, she's the only person I'm scared of.
~ Kiefer Sutherland
Every year when it's Chinese New Year here in New York, there are fireworks going off at all hours. New York mothers calm their frightened children by telling them it's just gunfire.
~ David Letterman
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
~ Edmund Burke
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
~ Victor Hugo
A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.
~ Confucius
I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.
~ Felix Baumgartner
Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight.
~ Henry Taylor
Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.
~ Jeremy Taylor
I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.
~ Jodi Picoult
Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.
~ Shirley Manson
I think my mother was always worried about me when she was alive.
~ Martha Wainwright
We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we do a great deal, it does not much matter what we are.
~ Mother Mary Francis
One of my greatest anxieties as a mother is head injuries.
~ Rachel Zucker
When my mother and I walked to the grocery store, men would circle the block in cars. It was very, very scary, especially as a young boy. Very predatory - a hunt.
~ Ryan Gosling
Fear is the mother of foresight.
~ Thomas Hardy