Quotes About Reflection

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

My first notebook was a Big Five tablet, given to me [at age five] by my mother with the sensible suggestion that I stop whining and learn to amuse myself by writing down my thoughts.

I was Hannah Montana's mother ... Where did I go wrong?

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'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

I take every opportunity to tell people how happy my mother is to be dead.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

Mother Mother Ocean, I have heard your call.

Mother Dolores Hart's prose is a reflection of the inner beauty she has always possessed. A fascinating read... and read again!

Life is not only meant to be appreciated in retrospect ... There is something each day to embrace and cherish.

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].

When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

I asked my mother I said, "You divorced my dad, how did you decide? She said, "I decided twelve years before he knew it." I was like wow; I'm learning something new every day.

Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.

My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.

I think "waste of your brain" is something that my mother would say to me occasionally - I think it's usually when I'm telling her something like that I can remember every outfit I've ever worn.

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.

Becoming a mother has taught me to simply things and also to appreciate being at home more.