Enid Bagnold Quotes

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

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• I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.

  

  Tamara Feldman
  • Help
  • Baby
  • Sea

• When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Life
  • She
  • Mother

• My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Spend

• Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Help
  • Baby
  • Grace

• Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

  

  Flavius Josephus
  • Great
  • Father
  • City

• Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Women
  • Character
  • Intriguing

• I'm the one who often makes the 'Murder, She Wrote' reference, and ABC hates that, they don't want me to do that. And I say that having never actually watched 'Murder, She Wrote'. I think people have been trying to compare it to crime shows that are on right now, and all I can do is listen. I don't watch a lot of TV.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Trying
  • She

• I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I find out she's not attracted to me, it brings down my level of attraction to her. If I'm interested and find out she's not, I tend to cool off.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Me
  • Interested
  • Wants

• So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Together
  • Nature
  • Father

• Looking after a disabled child pushes you to the limits of what you can cope with... physically, emotionally. It's because there's this baby, this child that you love more than you can possibly imagine, in some way more than a normal child because you worry about them 24 hours a day. But at the same time you are so, so proud of them.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Time
  • Love
  • Day

• I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Father
  • Parents

• I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Work
  • Baby
  • Lucky

• Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Up
  • Family
  • Business

• I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Music
  • Father
  • Roots

• I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Father

• I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman.

  

  Karolyn Grimes
  • Family
  • She
  • Woman

• I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later.

  

  Diego Rivera
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Winning

• With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.

  

  Doris Roberts
  • People
  • Life
  • Attitude

• You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Love
  • Positive

• 'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles.

  

  Twyla Tharp
  • People
  • Action
  • Lost

• A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

  

  Enid Bagnold
  • She
  • Father
  • Baby