Quotes About Matriarchs

#1. I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

Erykah Badu

#2. In addition to being the most beautiful score I have ever sung, 'Piazza' gave me the opportunity to honor the matriarchs of my Southern family.

Victoria Clark

#3. When you're single, you're very independent. Very independent women raised me. We didn't have a lot of male figures as the head of our household, so I got, and took on, a lot of that strong spirit from the matriarchs in my family.

Tichina Arnold

#4. The women in my family were hardworking matriarchs. But the stories I saw on TV and movies and even in many books said they were anomalies

Kameron Hurley

#5. Barzel, what some believe is a combination of letters taken from the names of the matriarchs of Jacob's family, Leah, Rachel, Bilhah, and Zilpah.

Alice Hoffman

#6. We come by aurora,
with a heavy and sovereign tread,
with the might of matriarchs to furnish our shoulders,
with the apricity of light to crown our heads

Michelle Franklin

#7. As for wife beating, one survey found support for it from 62 percent of Indian village women themselves. And no group systematically abuses young women more cruelly than mothers-in-law, who serve as household matriarchs in much of the world and take charge of disciplining the younger women.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#8. My object is to show that the chief function of the child
his business in the world during the first six or seven years of his life
is to find out all he can, about whatever comes under his notice, by means of his five senses ...

Charlotte M. Mason

#9. I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.

Katharine Hepburn

#10. Don't believe everything you hear today

Joe Hill

#11. But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That's what counts.

James McBride

#12. Everything is easier said than done. Wanting something is easy. Saying something is easy. The challenge and the reward are in the doing.

Steve Maraboli

#13. Hmmm. What you're saying is that you've never been kissed? He picked at a string on the blanket under us.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#14. American strategic [nuclear] forces do not exist solely for the purpose of deterring a Soviet nuclear threat or attack against the U.S. itself. Instead, they are intended to support U.S. foreign policy.

Colin S. Gray

#15. I missed Breaking Bad and people just go on and on about it until you're blue in the face with envy and you've got to watch it.

Rhys Darby

#16. When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.

Charles De Secondat

#17. Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.

Nichiren

#18. The most-honored ancestors of your matriarch besmirched the season of the orange blossom.

Nick Bakay

#19. It's nice to see something more pathetic than I feel right now.

Chuck Palahniuk

#20. Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.

Melissa Bank