Mother Complex Quotes

#1. I'm an actress. In this sense, my profession is less complex than that of a model. True, they're into beauty in Hollywood, and it is age-related, but you can't put a girl with hot lips and no wrinkles and say: 'That's the mother of a 14-year-old.'

Ayelet Zurer

#2. We need the life ... We need to know what we take left someone weaker or dead. It reminds us what we were. The Hunger when you start out, it isn't in the stomach or brain. You want to kill because you hate that others get to live.

Thomm Quackenbush

#3. It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus

#4. The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

Wynonna Judd

#5. I grew up in Burbank - but not the Burbank of valet parking and TV studios. In the late 1950s, there was a small apartment complex on Elmwood Avenue that rented mostly to families on welfare. I lived there from age 3 to 11 and again from 14 to 18 with my mother, Shirley, and my younger sister, Toni.

Rene Russo

#6. How lucky Drew was to have this mother of hers, this constant, reliable, if at times irritating presence in her life
this mother, like so many other mothers, beloved and blamed. Lucky she was to have experience, through her mother, the twisted intricaciesof deep, and deeply complex, love.

Daphne Kalotay

#7. The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex.

Sigmund Freud

#8. My first and strongest memories about perfume come from childhood, from my mother, and they are a complex blend of her private and public selves.

Mary Gaitskill

#9. The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

Charles Baudelaire

#10. The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.

Mary Blakely

#11. Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist
memory shrinks without forgetting

Fady Joudah

#12. I'm eternally grateful to {our birth mother}, but wish I had never needed her. It's a loaded friendship, a complex connection.

Jana Wolff

#13. The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now, when I am 71 and living in California and she is 92 and living in Chile, we are still in touch daily.

Isabel Allende

#14. We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.

Pranab Mukherjee

#15. As an expert, I can deal with complex problems. As a mother it is much, much harder.

Rosalind Wiseman

#16. When men feel the wound that cannot heal, they either bury themselves in woman's arms and ask her for healing, which she cannot provide, or they hide themselves in macho pride and enforced loneliness.

James Hollis

#17. One Jewish lady was talking to the neighbor, and she said, "The psychoanalyst who is treating my son has said that my son suffers from an Oedipus complex." And the neighbor lady said, "Oedipus schmoedipus! Doesn't matter as long as he is a good boy and loves his mother!

Osho

#18. When I first got pregnant, I freaked out. Then I had to remind myself: I'm turning 30.

Melissa Joan Hart

#19. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Clifford Odets

#20. O come all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant,
O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.

Frederick Oakeley

#21. I, sir, I just like to work. I'm humble.

Bruce McCulloch