Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virginia Satir

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Khalil Gibran

You may give them your love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts.

Khalil Gibran

For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

Jodi Picoult

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

Ewan McGregor

The thing about parenting rules is there aren't any. That's what makes it so difficult.

Leo Tolstoy

Everything depends on upbringing.

Joyce Brothers

The greatest happiness is family happiness.

Joan Jett

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

Joan Rivers

Your proudest moment is to watch your egg not just function, but to achieve on her own.

Romola Garai

Motherhood so often comes in conflict with women's capacity to express and live their own lives.

Nelly Furtado

I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different.

Natalie Wood

I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.

Maria Edgeworth

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

Natalie Merchant

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.

Kate Moss

When Lila was born, "I felt like, now I've got a partner in crime".

Rachel Cusk

What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.

Rachel Cusk

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

Tess Gerritsen

Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.

English Proverb

Kill not the goose that lays the golden eggs

Two Chainz

If you a chicken head, go somewhere and lay some eggs

Ron Ben-Israel

Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.

William Morris Hunt

How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

Ronald Reagan

A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

Robert Jordan

The yellowfly is almost too small to see, but if you leave its egg in your skin, you will lose an arm or leg before it hatches - if it does not kill you.

Vladimir Nabokov

At a very early stage of the novel's development I get this urge to collect bits of straw and fluff, and to eat pebbles. Nobody will ever discover how clearly a bird visualizes, or if it visualizes at all, the future nest and the eggs in it.

Tony Gerlicz

Clearly, an organization has to be accountable, but (should not have to) put all (its) eggs in a narrow testing basket.

Steve Smith

I keep stressing that last year put everything in perspective. I felt like football was my whole life. When it was taken away from me, I felt the Lord was teaching me a lesson to not put all my eggs in one basket. ... That's why I am enjoying playing.