Edith Konecky Quotes

My mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.

Edith Konecky

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• My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Moments
  • Voice
  • Responsible

• I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • My Life
  • Forget
  • My Mother

• I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Kid
  • My Mother
  • Household

• My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Written
  • Artistic
  • My Mother

• My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Tea
  • My Mother
  • British Culture

• First my mother was Spanish. Then she became a Jehovahs Witness.

  

  Geri Halliwell Spice Girls
  • First
  • Spanish
  • My Mother

• My mother is a singer herself.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Singer
  • My Mother

• I'm very chill, and when I'm out, I want to make sure that my outfit makes me feel comfortable and that I don't feel restricted.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • Chill
  • Make Sure
  • Restricted

• I think "waste of your brain" is something that my mother would say to me occasionally - I think it's usually when I'm telling her something like that I can remember every outfit I've ever worn.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Remember
  • Brain
  • My Mother

• And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Proud
  • Daughter
  • My Mother

• My mother played a little bit of the old time clawhammer. She tuned the banjo up and picked one tune for me, and it just become natural to me. When she picked it, I just started and picked it, too.

  

  Ralph Stanley
  • My Mother
  • Picked
  • Banjo

• My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Truth
  • Bible
  • My Mother

• My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.

  

  Georgina Chapman
  • Disease
  • Destroy
  • My Mother

• Trust. We stake our lives on it, but it's a subject that not even the Gallagher Academy can teach. When do you let your guard down? Who do you let in? And I knew at that moment, as I sat beside my mother, bathing in the warm spring light, that those were the questions a good spy never stops asking

  

  Ally Carter
  • Light
  • Trust
  • My Mother

• You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,' Hale said simply, as if that should explain everything. 'Binky has a nasty habit of shedding all over the living room furniture, you see.' Gregory Wainwright nodded as if he understood perfectly. 'And so we had to get new living room furniture, which, unfortunately, does not go with the Monet.' Kat stood there for a moment, staring into that small window of the world where someone would tire of a Monet simply because it clashed with the couch.

  

  Ally Carter
  • My Mother
  • Furniture
  • Couch

• I beg your lordship's patience till I can procure my papers. I cannot plead until I have those papers that I insisted upon.

  

  William Kidd
  • Patience
  • Papers
  • Insisted

• I'll simply say here that I was born Beatrice Gladys Lillie at an extremely tender age because my mother needed a fourth at meals.

  

  Beatrice Lillie
  • Age
  • My Mother
  • Meals

• I might have been told to put a comb through my hair once or twice - by my mother!

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Hair
  • My Mother
  • Comb

• My mother taught me to believe in silver, to believe in things, but I think it's more important to believe in me.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Believe
  • My Mother
  • Silver

• I agree that Ruskin has done much harm to counter balance much good in giving people the trick of talking about Art instead of really doing a little of it to enable them to understand.

  

  William H. Hunt
  • Art
  • Doing
  • Harm

• I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Book

• I'm a micro-celebrity, about as small a celebrity as you can be.

  

  Steve Burns
  • Small
  • Celebrity
  • Micro

• Though we are politically enemies, yet with regard to Science it is presumable we shall not dissent from the practice of civilized people in promoting it

  

  John Hancock
  • Practice
  • Enemy
  • Civilized

• My mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.

  

  Edith Konecky
  • My Mother
  • Make Sure
  • Insisted