Over Mothered Quotes

#1. The church has been under-fathered and over-mothered.

Matt Redman

#2. People who take more than 2 weeks to plan a wedding are pussies

Riki Lindhome

#3. My heart had been touched by him, battered by him, cradled by him as the days passed. He was cruel without meaning to be yet he was kind, and I needed him too much to let myself want him

Mackenzie Herbert

#4. The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in their relationship to larger truths, and who therefore assigned to them a prominence out of all proportion to their true importance.

Alfred North Whitehead

#5. I might even pursue a career in politics. If I do, I will have had great practice dealing with the avalanche of daily criticism from working at Fox News and being a former Miss America. I'm ready for anything!

Gretchen Carlson

#6. Young. Old. Just words. Inside we feel like our shoe size.

George Burns

#7. We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

Orison Swett Marden

#8. Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports.

Andre Norton

#9. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

E.B. White

#10. Stillness is the ruler of haste.

Laozi

#11. A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry.
It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly.

Desmond Tutu

#12. ...it was hard to be a mother when you had never been mothered yourself. Your children's needs remind you of your needs. Their pain reminds you of your pain. All of it reminds you of how bad it felt, how hard it was, how much you wanted and needed and didn't get. It's very hard.

Sarah Dunn

#13. I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language.

Sally Potter

#14. I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time.

Karen Armstrong

#15. The poor old earth which has mothered us and nursed us we treat with scant respect. Our awe and veneration we reserve for the worlds we know not of. Our senses sell us out. The mud on our shoes disenchants us.

John Burroughs

#16. I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism.

Assata Shakur

#17. In the fight between you and reality, be discouraging.

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

#18. I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.

Donald Woods Winnicott

#19. Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad.

Wilfred Owen

#20. I feel bad for her - i do. a damn shame, really, that i had to have a mother. it can't be easy having me for a son. nothing can prepare someone for that kind of disappointment.

David Levithan

#21. The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read.
They mothered each other.

Louise Penny

#22. I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

George Edward Woodberry

#23. Now it was done. He was free of Xanth forever. Free to make his own life, without being ridiculed or mothered or tempted. Free to be himself.
Bink put his face in his hands and cried.

Piers Anthony

#24. As in biomedical science, pioneering industrial inventions have not been mothered by necessity. Rather, inventions for which there was no commercial use only later became the commercial airplanes, xerography and lasers on which modern society depends.

Arthur Kornberg

#25. Sadie, I'm not fragile," he complained. " I don't need a protector."
"Rubinho," I said. " That's macho bluster, and all boys like to be mothered.

Rick Riordan

#26. The least we can do is to respect the Constitution because that's the foundation on which our republic is built. If you give the Constitution the go-by, your republic will be under stress.

Kishore Chandra Deo