Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Mertz

There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

Ayelet Waldman

I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

Ayelet Waldman

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

Ayelet Waldman

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Benjamin Disraeli

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Jane Austen

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

Janis Joplin

After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [expletive deleted by the New York Times], maybe they'll have a second thought - that they can be themselves and win.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

Barry White

I woke up when I was 14 and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Jack Horn

This is a serious problem nationally and statewide as well as in the county, ... Solano County has been particularly proactive, signing people up on various programs, particularly children with the SKIP program, but it's still a serious problem, no question about it.

Barbara Mertz

Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

Ogden Nash

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

C. S. Lewis

But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan.

C. S. Lewis

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

Celine Dion

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

Celine Dion

I am the youngest of 14 children, so I rarely got a chance to speak. If I have an opportunity for talking, I talk

Carson McCullers

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

As a young boy, when you get splashed by a mud puddle on the way to school, you wonder if you should go home and change, but be late for school, or go to school the way you are; dirty and soaking wet. Well, while he tried to decide, I drove by and splashed him again.

Mike Morgan

Arson investigation is very slow, tedious, dirty work,

Jules Carlysle

A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Irish Sayings

Even a tin knocker will shine on a dirty door

Donald Trump

I don't want to jump the gun. I don't want to talk about that. There's a lot of dirty pool played at the election, meaning the election is rigged.

Stephen Fry

I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body; the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche.

Miranda Richardson

Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

George Papandreou

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.

George Mikes

It is often said that the Japanese are extremely clean at home, or inside any house or office, but dirty and untidy outside. 'Go and look at a railway station,' I was told, 'and you'll be horrified.' I went and was horrified; horrified by the cleanliness of the place.