Bradley Denton Quotes

A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.

Bradley Denton

• Mother
• Belief
• Comforting
• UFOs

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• My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Mother
  • Always
  • More

• My mother taught me to read.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Read

• When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'

  

  Olivia Hussey
  • Why
  • Mother
  • Girl

• You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
  • Mother
  • My Life

• My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Work
  • Mother
  • End

• When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Life
  • School
  • May

• I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • School
  • Mother

• For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mother
  • Grandmother
  • Loving

• My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Amazing

• 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
  • World
  • Mother
  • Grace

• Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• 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
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Black

• I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Mother
  • Respect
  • Yourself

• My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mother's sisters loved each other intensely. The uncles loved each other intensely.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Strong

• I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • World
  • Mother
  • Possible

• To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Mother
  • Strong
  • Be Strong

• 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

• If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Mother
  • Desire
  • Baby

• When I was 12, my brother and I moved back to Honolulu to live with our mother. Hawaii felt like another universe, and reflecting on it, I am struck by how much more open and accepting it was.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Live
  • Mother
  • Universe

• I've been doing 'How I Met Your Mother' for so long, and it's been so great, and I just feel like it's second nature at this point.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Great
  • Long
  • Mother

• She still remembered sitting for hours as a little girl and pretending to be a hassock. A foot stool. Because if she could just stay very small, and very quiet, her mother would forget she was there, and then she wouldn't scream about people and places and things that had gone wrong.

  

  Eloisa James
  • Mother
  • Girl
  • Remembered

• I hope that I can be an inspiration to kids that are young and may feel different or may feel like they don't belong.

  

  Jonathan Knight
  • Kids
  • Hope
  • Inspiration

• I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Great
  • Family
  • Love

• A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.

  

  Bradley Denton
  • Mother
  • Belief
  • Comforting