Friends, I was pretty sure, lift their friends up; they don’t weigh them down like a sack full of stones. —Dana Reinhardt in The Summer I Learned to Fly More about this quote Tags: friendship friends certainty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. —Joseph Campbell More about this quote Tags: life acceptance planning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. —Minna Antrim More about this quote Tags: genius wisdom humor knowledge self Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. —Nathaniel Hawthorne More about this quote Tags: love selfishness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet? —Lily Tomlin More about this quote Tags: wonder language feet anatomy names Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. —Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. More about this quote Tags: certainty doubt principles civilization civilized Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. —Florida Scott-Maxwell More about this quote Tags: optimism hope improvement mother motherhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Certainly I can say that my own childhood was unhappy. This was due to a clash of wills between my mother and myself. My early life was a series of fierce battles, from which my mother invariably emerged the victor. If I could not be seen anywhere, she would say, "Go and find out what Bernard is doing and tell him to stop it." —Bernard Law Montgomery More about this quote Tags: childhood victory mother battles conflict Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I figure when my husband comes home from work, if the kids are still alive, then I've done my job. —Roseanne Barr More about this quote Tags: life success survival kids Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it. —Fran Lebowitz More about this quote Tags: career children death husband motherhood Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Being asked to decide between your passion for work and your passion for children was like being asked by your doctor whether you preferred him to remove your brain or your heart. —Mary Kay Blakely More about this quote Tags: children work feminism sexism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions. —Nancy Stahl More about this quote Tags: religion possessions obligation motherhood relinquishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
But the mother's yearning . . . feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man. —George Eliot More about this quote Tags: failure man mother child Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity; it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. —Agatha Christie More about this quote Tags: love law mother child pity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world. —Jamaica Kincaid More about this quote Tags: life mother shadow Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email