Henrik Ibsen Quotes

It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.

Henrik Ibsen

• Mother
• Beliefs
• Vitality
• Inherited

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• I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Magic

• I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.

  

  Samantha Power
  • America
  • Mother
  • Me

• If there's a problem, we at Wine Library never tell ourselves that once we handle this issue, we'll never have to deal with the person again. We talk to every single person as though we're going to wind up sitting next to that person at his or her mother's house that night for dinner.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Up
  • Mother
  • House

• I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Mother
  • Problem
  • Woman

• I am truly multi-racial. I never knew my biological father. I've always had less information than I would have liked to have had. All I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Cultures

• My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Mother
  • Catholic
  • Very

• Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job interview.

  

  Karen Bender
  • She
  • Job
  • Mother

• A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

  

  Washington Irving
  • May
  • Love
  • Mother

• My mother turned me onto St. Jude back in the days when I was wild and crazy. She took me to the shrine on Rampart Street.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Crazy

• My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Mother

• My name is Frances Louise McDormand, formerly known as Cynthia Ann Smith. I was born in Gibson City, Ill., in 1957. I identify as gender-normative, heterosexual, and white-trash American. My parents were not white trash. My birth mother was white trash.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • American
  • Mother
  • Parents

• My mother is chairman of a bank called the Indo-Zambia Bank. It's a joint venture between Zambia and India. My father runs Integrity Foundation, an anticorruption organization.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Organization

• 'No mother, no father, no Sight.'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Mother
  • Father

• I find it very difficult to be two different characters at the same time - actress and mother.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Time
  • Different
  • Mother

• I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Great
  • She
  • Job

• My first thought in life was wanting to be an actor. I was in ballet slippers and on pointe as soon as I could walk. I always wanted to be an actress, not a mother or housewife.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Ballet

• I love art. My sister is an artist and my mother is a painter, so it is very much in the family. I haven't ever wanted to be a fine artist myself - my sister robbed me of my artistic talent, I think.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Family
  • Art
  • Mother

• It is France. I know the league well. It is my mother tongue. Inevitably, there is an attraction for me. A return? It might not be my first choice, but of course, it is not impossible.

  

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
  • Mother

• I love celebrating Mother's Day. Since I was a kid, it was a special day to tell my mother and grandmother how much I love them. Now that I'm a mom, it is a special day to spend with my children.

  

  Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Mom

• That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

  

  Charles Babbage
  • Country
  • Knowledge

• If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts.

  

  George Strait
  • Trying

• As every bird-watcher knows, the beauty of a bird's song is inversely correlated with the colourfulness of its plumage.

  

  Matt Ridley
  • Song
  • Bird

• It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Mother
  • Beliefs
  • Vitality