A Matriarch Quotes

#1. All I want to do really is get married and be a matriarch.

Sally Phillips

#2. Like Sarah, treat your husband like what he might become. When all the facts said Sarah would have no vineyard, she became a matriarch to nations. Sarah learned to behave as though she would become a mother to nations
and she did.
pg 21

Michael Ben Zehabe

#3. A matriarch who considers powerful sneezes as noise disruptions worthy of eviction.

Alessandra Torre

#4. It's rather good to pretend to be normal with someone.

Ana Franco

#5. When I was playing football, I always felt in complete control. When I play golf and come under pressure, it's a completely different ball game.

Alan Hansen

#6. In marriage, those who persevere are rewarded with the most precious thing this earth has to offer: Marital love
a partnership that conquers the years. It takes time, but those who persevere are rewarded with, falling in love with their spouse.
pg v

Michael Ben Zehabe

#7. ..."Unforgiveness," said Pastor Allen, "is the cup of poison that we pour for another, and then drink ourselves."
'You are becoming a very bitter and twisted person, Hana Du Rose,' she chided herself as they sang the final hymn.

From the New Du Rose Matriarch

K.T. Bowes

#8. I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.

Xi Jinping

#9. Last time I was in London, I visited Number 5, Bruton Street, which is the address I gave to Violet Bridgerton, the matriarch of the Bridgerton clan in my novels. It was a bit disconcerting to learn that it's actually a pub.

Julia Quinn

#10. While the matriarch operates on the basis of knowledge, the rest of the herd operates on the basis of trust.

Frans De Waal

#11. She called herself Mater Tantibus." I scraped the rust off my Latin. "Mother of Nightmares?" "Pretentious, right?" Said the Grand Matriarch of the House of Dead Roses, I thought, but I was smart enough not to say that out loud.

Craig Schaefer

#12. The weird thing is, hearing stories like this makes me feel a kind of kinship with the Almighty, because it proves that even God has psychotic episodes.

Neal Shusterman

#13. Maureen clapped her hands together. "Oh," she said in her elfin little voice. "It's pretty."
"Pretty?" Simon looked quickly at the hunched shape on top of the concrete block. "Maureen, what the hell-

Cassandra Clare

#14. She was the cook, the hostess, the comforter, and the keeper of all the mysterious secrets for how to do just about everything.

S. Kelley Harrell

#15. Ninety percent of the people don't realize that there is anything below the head. They think that the head is carried around by something very mysterious, and they're not aware that it's the body, something they should be in tune with.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#16. Liberalism ... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#17. Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.

Albert Camus

#18. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

Tony Scott

#19. Real love is not about being powerful, it's about rendering yourself powerless.

K.T. Bowes

#20. I wouldn't be honest if I didn't say my mom. Apart from the fact that she's my mother, she's a brilliant comedian and a force as a producer. She paved the way for women to produce and star in their own films, and to balance that with being the matriarch of our family is really inspiring.

Kate Hudson

#21. The tradition of Italian cooking is that of the matriarch. This is the cooking of grandma. She didn't waste time thinking too much about the celery. She got the best celery she could and then she dealt with it.

Mario Batali

#22. Love. Comfort. I didn't know what those were, but I wanted them. I would have them. I closed the distance and snapped the man's neck.
As the third corpse dropped to the floor at my feet, the Matriarch smiled.

S.J. Kincaid

#23. When the matriarch is gone, so is the herd's collective memory.

Jodi Picoult

#24. Every family has one living patriarch or matriarch, the final arbiter and repository of ancient family history, and Nicole's Aunt Patti was the last woman standing.

Liz Rosenberg

#25. The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom.

Nick Bakay

#26. We inhabit a three-body cosmos. Sophia is essentially the matriarch of a single-parent family - a single-planet goddess, if you will. But she relies on the support of the surrogate parents, sun and moon, to manage her terrestrial brood.

John Lamb Lash

#27. Mum just laughed gleefully at his mounting frustration, like the villainous matriarch in a Roald Dahl story. I suspect a TV guide would describe her idea of comedy as 'dark', or, at very best, 'alternative'.

Matthew Crow

#28. Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.

Lillian Smith

#29. Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.

Tony Scott

#30. My grandmother, Angela, was the Fox family matriarch. She was magnetic but also wicked. She had this huge life force and was great fun, but she would play each member of the family off against each other, which could make for extremely dramatic Christmases.

Emilia Fox