Top 41 Mother Journey Quotes
#1. Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.
Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen".
Richard Nance
#2. It is not a good omen to meet a lot of cats when one sets out on a journey, so the Lieutenant spat three times for each cat, as his mother had taught him to do ...
Selma Lagerlof
#3. CHAPTER XXXV CONTAINING THE UNSATISFACTORY RESULT OF OLIVER'S ADVENTURE; AND A CONVERSATION OF SOME IMPORTANCE BETWEEN HARRY MAYLIE AND ROSE
Charles Dickens
#4. My mother always tells me that when I was a little kid, my first ambition was to be a truck driver, and after that, I went through everything from wanting to be a Prime Minister to an air hostess, but never an actor. So I became one, and it was a great journey. I learnt a lot, worked very hard.
Preity Zinta
#5. My father had been from Glasgow; my mother, from Los Angeles. They had both enjoyed the quip that the difference between an American and a European was that to an American, a hundred years was a long time, and to a European, a hundred miles is a big journey.
Mercedes Lackey
#6. Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons. Like a mother, it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.
Chanakya
#7. The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward - toward my people - instead of backward, away from them.
Anasazi Foundation
#8. How soon do you think it is? Time will tell me. When it's autumn, the leaves fall. When the time comes, I'll know it.
[Responding to a question about when he will start throwing his slider in his attempt to comeback from a career-ending stroke.]
J.R. Richard
#9. I think that the tying of the Montenegrin economy with the euro is a much better option than the adventure of printing our own currency.
Igor Luksic
#10. Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Stein's memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the author's journey to reclaim - and celebrate - that most primal of relationships, the one between mother and child. I dare you to read this book without crying.
Mira Bartok
#11. Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
#12. My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#13. The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn't.
Marcus Samuelsson
#14. The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother and brother had not been there I would have made no move to jump.
Sylvia Plath
#15. Losing my mother at such an early age is the scar of my soul. But I feel like it ultimately made me into the person I am today; I understand the journey of life. I had to go through what I did to be here.
Mariska Hargitay
#16. I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.
John Hodgman
#17. You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose.
Peter Schiff
#18. Mother's particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth's direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.
Mary Karr
#19. My mother taught me three things: respect, knowledge, search for knowledge. It's an eternal journey.
Tupac Shakur
#20. I had to learn what my grandfather and mother knew about some of this journey's problems. My job was to sit back and let the Lord work it out according to His will. That's the best way - always!
Deborah L. Parker
#21. My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.
Gloria Steinem
#23. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
Richard Bach
#24. I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.
Sam Kinison
#25. Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.
Maria Montessori
#26. Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me.
Jill Scott
#27. JOURNEY: I'm never more proud of my mother than after seeing her handle her parents that year. She's finally learning to be herself around people who'd like to keep her in a box of their expectations.
Bijou Hunter
#28. I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding.
Christopher Meloni
#29. That's a journey I've been on for many years. I mean, being a working mother, realizing that I have to make and find my balance.
Donna Karan
#30. Once upon a time in the Land of Sad, / a girl went on a journey. / She was not a princess, except to her mother... / Her father had vanished some tipsy moons ago, / kidnapped by the pirate Captain Smirnoff.
Susan Browne
#31. How is it possible to feel exiled from a language that isn't mine? That I don't know? Maybe because I'm a writer who doesn't belong completely to any language.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#32. Remember even when alone, that the divine is everywhere.
Confucius
#33. Our present intricate humanly consciousness evolved after a long journey of struggle. And the beauty of natural selection is that our struggle against nature made us worthy of being rewarded with the 3 lbs. lump of highly advanced biological computer by our Mother Nature herself.
Abhijit Naskar
#35. Reading in the car was so much my personal journey that when my mother urged me to put down my book and look out the window, I would protest, But I just looked an hour ago!
Gloria Steinem
#36. Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#37. My mother, who taught me how to read and write and home-schooled me for the first 12 years of my life, whose presence shaped me as much as her absence did, who imbibed in me the values of empathy and fearlessness and hard work, looks down on me today with great pride.
Sharad Vivek Sagar
#38. By the time I sit down ready to write, I've done a lot of longhand and a lot of note collecting along the way.
Jill McCorkle
#39. I didn't go to America to be a star, but to try to reclaim my life.
Lysette Anthony
#40. From Mother you will inherit the belief that you can journey to your fate, there's a place to be located on a map that's destiny. If only you can get there. If it isn't too late. If no one stops you.
Joyce Carol Oates
#41. I bring the experiences of women. As a daughter, as a mother, as a wife, as a sister. That is who I am. Those experiences are part of me. And it is part of our American journey that we have moved through so much of what used to hold people back because of gender, because of race.
Hillary Clinton
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