Andrea Fay Friedman Quotes
My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.Andrea Fay Friedman
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Quentin Crisp -
On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
Ingmar Bergman -
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 -
How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?
Gail Parent -
In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.
Nancy Willard -
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
Natalie Wood -
I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.
Campbell Scott -
I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.
I. M. Pei -
When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.
Vera Farmiga -
My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me about the people at the paper and the articles she wrote. She had the best memory of anyone I know, and she could really tell a tale.
Candace Camp -
I torture my mother with all my problems, that poor woman.
Vanessa Ferlito
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I will carry on the torch of reviving Japan that the Democratic Party received from the people.
Naoto Kan -
Bolivar cannot carry double.
O. Henry -
Blessed sister, holy mother, spirit of the fountain, spirit of the garden, Suffer us not to mock ourselves with falsehood Teach us to care and not to care
T. S. Eliot -
A bat is bornNaked and blind and pale.His mother makes a pocket of her tailAnd catches him. He clings to her long furBy his thumbs and toes and teeth.And then the mother dances through the nightDoubling and looping, soaring, somersaulting -Her baby hangs on underneath.
Randall Jarrell -
I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.
Kristin Scott Thomas -
I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.
Robert Dwayne Womack
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I had a mother who prayed for me, and prayer changes everything.
Dennis Edwards The Temptations -
I'm very happy when I can find somewhere with some very good matzo ball soup, tasting exactly the same as the one my mother used to do for me.
Claude-Michel Schonberg -
Much of what we now consider to be problems concerning immigration and assimilation really concern Mexican immigration and assimilation.
Samuel P. Huntington -
Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically.
Jane Bryant Quinn -
I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
Malcolm X -
My mother did not carry me around under her arm like a loaf of French bread the way former Governor Palin carries her son Trig around looking for sympathy and votes.
Andrea Fay Friedman