Mothers Passed Quotes

#1. This sad, extreme example is more common than you might think. I have known daughters who felt tremendous relief when their narcissistic mothers passed away. They feel delivered out from under a huge burden, but guilty about admitting it.

Karyl McBride

#2. She goes silent. Ashamed of herself as mothers are when they realize they have passed that point in life when they want more from their daughters than their daughters want from them.

Fredrik Backman

#3. Mitochondria, as we have seen, are only passed on in the egg, so all 13 mitochondrial genes come from our mothers. If these genes really do influence lifespan, and we can only inherit them from our mothers, then our own lifespan should reflect that of our mothers but not our fathers.

Nick Lane

#4. Victory is only wrested by running risks.

Winston Churchill

#5. They'll realize that beneath your unfeeling exterior is a heart that's breaking! Silently, and in more pain than any of us can possibly understand, because that's what it is to be Vulcan!

Kelis

#6. 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

#7. As time passed from solstice to mild solstice in those occluded zones of my early childhood, I played beneath the distracted majesty of my mother's blue-eyed gaze. With her eyes on me I felt as if I were being studied by flowers.

Pat Conroy

#8. I've always known that writing plays is very difficult, because I've written three or four that have never been produced.

Rodman Philbrick

#9. But you have gift!"
"Gift? I was electrocuted and disfigured, and now I think my fucking television is talking to me. That's called schizophrenia.

Brian K. Vaughan

#10. I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?

Tarsem Singh

#11. There is no need, in order to explain three-quarters of the opinions held about people, to go so far as a love that has been spurned or an exclusion from political power. Our judgment remains unsure: an invitation refused or received determines it.

Marcel Proust

#12. Mothers don't go to heaven when they die. They get special permission from God to stay around a bit longer and watch over their children, no matter what has passed between them in their brief mortal lives.

Elif Shafak

#13. Government and business must come together on the interlinked issues of conservation, economic development and renewable energy. There are literally thousands of businesses, many in the tourism industry, that depend on an intact marine environment for their long-term survival.

Richard Branson

#14. We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equilibrium. A more helpful way of thinking about the economy is to imagine it as a living organism.

Paul Ormerod

#15. There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.

John Darnielle

#16. Each day is a new opportunity. Yesterday is over and done. Today is the first day of my future.

Louise Hay

#17. The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#18. Behind every successful woman is a hungry man.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#19. I looked at the clock with the faint unconscious hope common to all mothers that time will somehow have passed magically away and the next time you look it will be bedtime.

Shirley Jackson

#20. Mothers support certain illusions about their children, and one of my illusions was that I liked who I was, because she did. When she passed away, so did that idea.

Mitch Albom

#21. Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.

Arthur Symons

#22. I caught the preacher making love to Sister Mary Lou. God's gonna getcha for that.

Tammy Wynette

#23. Everyone is involved in experiments of one kind of another. Everything we do in life is the result of our own or someone else's experimentation. My experiment simulations are just conducted in a more honest format." Dillon explained.

Jill Thrussell