Quotes About Bad Mothering

#1. his mother, who had never been able to manage him, sent him to school to get rid of him, lamented his absence till he returned, then writhed and fretted under his presence until again he went.

George MacDonald

#2. It's not impossible, right? Just harder.

Anonymous

#3. My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.

Paloma Faith

#4. I think at some point every actor has practiced their acceptance speech while they're having a shower. It's fun.

Jared Harris

#5. Pierre Patenaude, whom she was currently interviewing, had just explained that the staff changed almost every year, so it was necessary to train most of them. "Do you have trouble holding on to staff?" she asked. "Mais, non," Madame Dubois said. Agent Lacoste had

Louise Penny

#6. I have to remind myself that it isn't bad to think about myself in this busy mothering season I'm in.

Kristen Welch

#7. Johnson was unknown to the vast majority of the blues audience and ignored by all but a handful of his musical peers until the "blues revival" hit in the 1960s.

Elijah Wald

#8. It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

Matthew Arnold

#9. I'm sauteing asparagus, Brussels sprouts,broccoli, some boneless, skinless chicken breast, some halibut. That's about it; that's all I'm allowed. That's what's legal for me to saute.

Ron Funches

#10. Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other.

Pankaj Mishra

#11. Her mother's quiet disapproval and withdrawal was a death in itself, and Franckline's despair at it was transmitted, she was sure of it, to the child. She transgressed twice, first by making the child, then by giving it her despair, the despair that left it unable to live.

Pamela Erens

#12. After getting dressed at warp speed, I actually managed to drive all the way to high school before I realized I'd forgotten my morning coffee. Mystery, intrigue, and naked dreams aside, that didn't bode well for my chances at making it through the morning without killing myself. Or someone else.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#13. You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

Edouard Manet

#14. All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

Oliver Goldsmith

#15. Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. One of the biggest sicknesses this world has is expectation. We all expect other people to be a certain way or to do a certain thing. Most people, they spend their whole lives under the wants of other people.

Eric Shonkwiler

#17. The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.

Martin Rees