Mothers Grandmothers Quotes

#1. Girls are under enormous pressures rarely experienced by their mothers, grandmothers, and other women in previous generations. Today's little girls are being enticed to grow up too fast and are encountering challenges for which they are totally unprepared.

James C. Dobson

#2. Mothers, Grandmothers, and Mother Nature are the best doctors around.

Robert S. Mendelsohn

#3. Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.

Kerry Washington

#4. Because parents are transients in the maternity care system, there is little cumulative birth experience over successive generations of mothers. Women giving birth don't make the same mistakes as their mothers or grandmothers-they make new ones.

Elizabeth Noble

#5. We think back through our mothers and grandmothers, if we are women.

Virginia Woolf

#6. Nada Surf and Harvey Danger are good bands. I think they've just stayed true to why they play music in the first place, it's just because they love doing it and they love each other and that's the impetus for doing it, not trying to keep singles on the radio and on MTV.

Ben Gibbard

#7. Before I could answer that, I should have to see your soul." "To see

Oscar Wilde

#8. The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

Simeon Strunsky

#9. No man is more important than The Team. No coach is more important than The Team. The Team, The Team, The Team, and if we think that way, all of us, everything that you do, you take into consideration what effect does it have on my Team?

Bo Schembechler

#10. We all grew up, our grandmothers and mothers had about three channels to watch, so we watched those soaps and now, a generation has grown up with the Internet and computers and video games.

Jack Wagner

#11. I am the weed cast out of the rose garden. I am the crow chased out of the dovecote.

Jessica Khoury

#12. Mothers and grandmothers: these are the people that I admire most, not so much chefs.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#13. Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

Marina Warner

#14. My grandmother, a dim, stern figure, named her children Lily and Violet, which I guess from seeing a picture of my mother's paved, ugly backyard, was the nearest she came to a garden.

Emma Joy Crone

#15. At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers.

Kathleen Turner

#16. For I may fall and I may fail but I will stand again each time and you will find no satisfaction.

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#17. To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.
Quoted in "Paul Newman's Road To Glory", interview with Paul Fischer, Film Monthly (2002-07-01)

Paul Newman

#18. The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

Milton Friedman

#19. Whoever is free from prejudice should be ready to face misunderstanding.

Lion Feuchtwanger

#20. The two of them are like open books, they speak the truth at the risk of their own lives, and when they keep silent their thoughts blaze like a beacon from their eyes.

Juliet Marillier

#21. I was looking at myself, and acknowledged that I wasn't in love at all with him [husband]. I was in love with having children.

Nadya Suleman

#22. I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us.

Gordon Brown

#23. One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.

Samuel Smiles

#24. And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Alice Walker

#25. ...the state of perfection is an elusive goal; demanding something so obscure as almost unattainable and can become a compulsive, crazy making squirrel-on-a-wheel way of living.

David W. Earle

#26. She suddenly felt sorry for these people, for perverting the food of their childhood, the food of their mothers and grandmothers, and rejecting its unconditional love in favor of what? What? Pat did not understand.

J. Ryan Stradal

#27. Sometimes giving someone space is the most selfless thing you can do.

Brownell Landrum

#28. He said, "The spring was good enough for their mothers and their grandmothers before them. They will get ideas above their station in life if they have a well." She

Nevil Shute

#29. The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them ... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today

Matilda Joslyn Gage

#30. The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be ... The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough.

Adam Smith

#31. But there were no faerie godmothers. There were only mothers and grandmothers, and there was no magic wand to wave over a person's heart and make it all better. The fairy tales lied ... Fucking Brothers Grimm.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#32. Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

Alice Walker

#33. And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.

Zora Neale Hurston

#34. The children we bring into the world are small replicas of ourselves and our husbands; the pride and joy of grandfathers and grandmothers. We dream of being mothers, and for most of us that dreams are realised naturally. For this is the Miracle of Life.

Azelene Williams

#35. I saw a pattern forming, like a series of skipping stones that sent ripples through the generations: all the granddaughters and grandmothers who loved each other, all the mothers left stranded in between.

Nadja Spiegelman

#36. Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

Marianne Moore

#37. For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

Sheryl Sandberg

#38. ...and this is what grandmothers and mother-in-law and mothers do. They fight for the good.

Fredrik Backman