Sophocles Quotes
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A loving mother–son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me – when I wasn't saying it to her.
Walter Kirn -
If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
Jack Canfield -
When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
Patricia Kaas -
Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
I think as any mother would be she was absolutely over the moon. And actually we had quite an awkward situation because I knew and I knew that William had asked my father but I didn't know if my mother knew.
Kate Middleton -
I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
Salma Hayek
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My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
Ursula Burns -
My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
Faye Wattleton -
Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.
Kary Mullis -
Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
Kate Millett -
I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
Raney Aronson-Rath -
My father and my mother separated when I was two.
Carla Gugino
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I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.
Nate Berkus -
I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.
Obie Trice -
My mother and my sister are big Jon Snow fans.
Carice van Houten -
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
Natalie Wood -
My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.
Ice T
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'Are stories true?''Which ones?''The mermaid mother and Hansel and Gretel and all them.''Well,' says Ma, 'not literally.''What's-''They're magic, they're not about real people walking around today.''So they're fake?''No, no. Stories are a different kind of true.'
Emma Donoghue -
Tous nous serions transformés si nous avions le courage d'être ce que nous sommes.
Marguerite Yourcenar -
Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought.
Alan Watts -
In the nineties, it was all women being blonde and from Sweden. But now it's changed: it's all men looking like Ellen DeGeneres.
Pablo Francisco -
Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.
Scott Westerfeld -
Laziness is the mother of all evils.
Sophocles