Ambitious Mother Quotes

#1. The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

Victor Hugo

#2. How did pretty little Anna go from Westchester suburb brat to New York hooker? Now that's a story.

Stacey Trombley

#3. The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your love, O Lord, endures forever - do not abandon the works of your hands.

Anonymous

#4. I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

Will Rogers

#5. It's a sort of computer. There are special drawing programs for it. For children,' she whispers a little louder.

And something is shining in her eyes.

Something that Ove recognizes.

Fredrik Backman

#6. Like many children of the rich and famous, Paris Hilton didn't always get to spend quality time with her parents, especially her mother. A socially ambitious young woman, Kathleen Elizabeth Avanzino Richards Hilton, who had married into the celebrated Hilton Hotel family, was often out and about.

Jerry Oppenheimer

#7. The Freys are prickly where marriage contracts are concerned.

George R R Martin

#8. Nothing worth doing right is easy.

Mike Matheny

#9. Your mother and I had always been secretly pleased that you were so headstrong and passionate about your causes. Once you were gone, we understood that these were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women as trouble.

Karin Slaughter

#10. My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I think he'd have been pleased if I'd made a career of working in the shoe store. But my mother was ambitious. She encouraged us to read books, and she pushed us toward a musical education.

Alan W. Livingston

#11. Whatever happened to "Ia, Ia, Cthulu fthtagn"? ... No one has a sense of style anymore
-Harry Dresden

Jim Butcher

#12. In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that version doesn't come close to the truth.

Karen Abbott

#13. From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment.

Ellsworth Huntington

#14. Now I've devoted my life to making sure that I can be a trailblazer for any other African American kids or any other gay kids or any other kids that just feel weird or uncomfortable and have their own issues and don't know how to express themselves. I want to be like a beacon for those kids now.

Todrick Hall

#15. Bob Davis has his hair differently this year, short with curls like Randy Jones wears. I think you call it a Frisbee.

Jerry Coleman

#16. Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#17. I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.

Tea Obreht

#18. Being in drag for three months - I now have an idea of what women go through. At least maybe a little.

Michael Rosenbaum

#19. Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about the tough climb ahead, but dream about the view from the summit.

Bill Owens

#20. Is it my power ripening or the natural will of a man to want to control what he thinks is his? It didn't matter. Blood would paint the streets if another touched her.

Kenya Wright