Marmee Quotes

#1. I never had a particularly strong craving to procreate, except for earlier fantasies of wanting to be Marmee in Little Women.

Anne Lamott

#2. Sleep is highly overrated, Marmee; especially when there are books to be read. I shall sleep when I am dead and have enough of it.

H.L. Stephens

#3. Tell me how you do it, Marmee dear." "My good mother used to help me..." "As you do us..." interrupted Jo, with a grateful kiss. "But I lost her when I was a little older than you are,

Louisa May Alcott

#4. To have the recognition of your colleagues is great. The public attention is a mixed blessing.

Joshua Lederberg

#5. I should be sorry if I have only succeeded in entertaining them; I wished to make them better.

Georg Friedrich Handel

#6. The communal life of human beings had, therefore, a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love.

Sigmund Freud

#7. I think it is more like a ghost that has been following us both. Something vague that we're not seeing, something more like a feeling.

Conor Oberst

#8. As a father, we need to actively listen.

Asa Don Brown

#9. Only thieves and children run.

Tracy Chevalier

#10. People get really irritated by mental illness.

Maria Bamford

#11. Let the world know you are alive!

Abigail May Alcott

#12. I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other's misfortunes for entertainment.

Amandla Stenberg