Isabel Gillies Quotes

My mother has always been a worker bee, but she's also a serious foodie.

Isabel Gillies

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• Bee
• Foodie

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• I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Family
  • History
  • Mother

• Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her grandma could give someone the evil eye, and I'd better not cross her because she had some of that blood in her. Mother always believed that she could predict the future, and she had dreams that came true.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • True
  • Mother
  • Future

• We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • World
  • Mother
  • Door

• The Saints are the elect children of the spouse of Christ, the precious fruit of her body; they are her crown of glory. And when these dear children quit her to reap their eternal reward, the mother retains precious memorials of them and holds up their example to her other children to encourage them to follow their glorious traces.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Up
  • Children
  • Mother

• Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Mother

• Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going to work; they can't get used to you ignoring them. And work sometimes gets the message you're not as committed.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Work
  • Home
  • Kids

• While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Mother
  • Silent
  • Affairs

• I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Stories

• Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Mother
  • Language
  • Thought

• I spent a whole year in New York without going back to France. And I always came back because my mother was living in New York since I was 13. So I went to summer camps, hang out at the Roxy, go to class for ballet, so I always had part of my life in New York.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Summer

• My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead characters was named Lark. She decided then she would name me and she stuck to it, and here I am.

  

  Lark Voorhies
  • Movie
  • Mother
  • Name

• I adore acting; it's in my blood - quite literally - but I can honestly say the most creative thing in the world for me is being a mother.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • World
  • Mother
  • Creative

• I'd grown up with a lot of women. My mother was a famous lesbian in the '20s and '30s, and I grew up with only women, so I was used to getting on with them.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• I make the best eggplant parmigiana. Except maybe my mother. The way she makes it is delicious. If I told you how, I'd have to kill you.

  

  Cara Buono
  • Mother
  • Delicious
  • Eggplant

• My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Myself

• As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Mother
  • Feel
  • Better

• My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • World
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I had a mother who prayed for me, and prayer changes everything.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • Mother
  • Prayer

• My mother was all about unconditional love, and I don't think we give that to our patients a lot. At the end of the day, what they really need you to do is to look at them in the eye and say, 'I'm here for you. I'm going to make sure this works out.'

  

  Mehmet Oz
  • Mother

• As more women have gone into the workforce, they find it harder to be a good mother and a good worker. When I go into the office, I always feel guilty. I'm thinking about the children. When I'm at home, I'm thinking about my work. So you're always under tremendous pressure. Women feel very stressed. They feel like they're working harder and harder and harder. And society is not really helping them.

  

  Carolyn Maloney
  • Children
  • Home
  • Mother

• I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.

  

  Steve Fossett
  • Books
  • Distance
  • Flights

• Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May

• My mother has always been a worker bee, but she's also a serious foodie.

  

  Isabel Gillies
  • Mother
  • Bee
  • Foodie