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Quotes About Reflection

The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Yes', she replied 'but not the same ones.'
~ David Finkelstein
Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.
~ Mother Teresa
When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.
~ Jill Scott
I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life... And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.
~ Andy Griffith
Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.
~ Liz Murray
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
~ Khalil Gibran
My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.
~ Lord Mountbatten
Scrum is like your mother-in-law, it points out ALL your faults.
~ Ken Schwaber
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
~ Aeschylus
I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.
~ Julie Walters
Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.
~ Eminem
Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.
~ Jonathan Winters
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.
~ Cher
I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.
~ Hoagy Carmichael
I didn't go to the North Pole to do something about my mother. I was invited to the North Pole and I realized it was impossible to go there without thinking about her.
~ Sophie Calle
I am still confused because I still don't know who my father is. And so who is my mother? The feeling is still there.
~ Eartha Kitt
You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter.
~ William Saroyan
What are you looking at?" she asks. What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person I was put on this earth to find? Yes.
~ Pete Wentz
Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime...
~ William Shakespeare
The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.
~ Laura Ingalls Wilder
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.
~ Joanne Harris
Solitude is the mother of anxieties.
~ Publilius Syrus