Top 88 Quotes About Mother Jones
#1. Pray for the dead, but fight like hell for the living. - Mother Jones
Ann Jones
#2. Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion ... religion is institutionalized spirituality. - Mother Jones November/December 1997.
Huston Smith
#3. I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.
Mary Harris Jones
#4. I'm a political analyst. I'm a political wonk. I read everything I can get my hands on as a contributor to the 'Weekly Standard.' Of course I read that. I read the 'National Review' on the right. I read 'Mother Jones' on the left. If I want a good laugh, I'll watch MSNBC or read 'The Nation.'
Michael Ramirez
#5. There are still people who essentially live in intellectual silos and either read Mother Jones or watch Fox News, based on their worldview. And they pick information out that reinforces it rather than keeping an open mind.
Andrew Revkin
#6. Slowly those who create the wealth of the world are permitted to share it. The future is in labor's strong, rough hands.
Mother Jones
#7. The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was a coal miner for nineteen years, and the expectations of making it out of my town were slim to none.
Thomas Jones
#9. As often happened, Charmain began to despair of getting her mother to understand. She's not stupid, she just never lets her mind out, she thought.
Diana Wynne Jones
#10. At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.
Edward P. Jones
#11. All the average human being asks is something he can call a home; a family that is fed and warm; and now and then a little happiness; once in a long while an extravagance.
Mother Jones
#12. I had yet to be a mother, but I would have thought it difficult to forget something it took thirty-seven hours of excruciating pain to push out from between my legs ~Charley Davidson
Darynda Jones
#13. The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.
Mother Jones
#14. That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.
Mother Jones
#16. My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a white teacher until I got to high school.
Edward P. Jones
#17. I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.
Mother Jones
#18. Gather up your loins, daughter. You named Lillian Florence Jones after my mother. A toughter lady never lived. Find your talent and drive it.
Toni Morrison
#19. My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in a single-parent family. My mum brought my brother and I up.
Felicity Jones
#20. Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!
Mother Jones
#21. Did you know that at some point, a mama eagle pushes her babies out of the nest? She shoves them right out, and they have to fly to survive the fall." "And if they don't fly?" "I guess they don't buy her a Mother's Day present.
Jenny B. Jones
#22. Poetic injustice ... having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ... are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world.
Mother Jones
#23. If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!
Mother Jones
#24. I know that there are no limits to which the powers of privilege will not go to keep the workers in slavery
Mother Jones
#25. That's my entire weekend. I had plans"
"A Vampire Dairies marathon is not plans." She looked at me like I lost my mind.
"Have you even seen the Salvatore brothers? Holy mother of gingersnaps.
Darynda Jones
#27. I'm not the kind of guy a girl would take home to her mother. She'd kick the girl out and probably call the cops on me.
Steve Jones
#28. Sarah's death and how it haunted you, how you were swallowed by your guilt. But your mother was at least partially responsible for how you handled that situation as well. Let's not forget that you were just a kid. With the right guidance, you might have come through that incident better." Jones
Lisa Unger
#29. I preferred sewing to bossing little children.
Mother Jones
#31. She said her mother has a strap-on named Event Horizon.
Darynda Jones
#32. Holy mother of banana cream pie. They had pictures.
Darynda Jones
#33. When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you can't be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.
Edward P. Jones
#34. I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!
Marissa Jaret Winokur
#35. Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
Caleb Landry Jones
#36. My mother told me never explain, never complain. Even as a young actress, I determined I would never give personal interviews, since they made me so uncomfortable.
Jennifer Jones
#37. I get a lot of inspiration from my surroundings, people I'm with. Mother Nature. It's combination of everything and really wanting to live life to the fullest. I feel very fortunate to be healthy, so I try to take advantage of it.
Jeremy Jones
#38. The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.
Ernest Jones
#39. I definitely think the fact that I come from a multicultural background, my mother living life in a white skin and having white skin privilege from the time I was little, I was aware of that.
Sarah Jones
#40. And honestly, given the choice of facing my mother or a vampire, I think I'd always choose the latter.
Krystle Jones
#41. The most she knew about gardens was the Bakers' own backyard, which contained one large mulberry tree and a rosebush, plus the window boxes where her mother grew runner beans. She knew there was earth under the plants and that the earth contained worms. She shuddered.
Diana Wynne Jones
#42. I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
Mother Jones
#43. My mother always told me that no matter how late it is, you take your makeup off. Take it off!
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#44. Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.
Mother Jones
#45. I know," he said in almost bored contemplation. "My manners suck. I like to chalk it up to a dissatisfying childhood."
"I'd chalk it up to that narcissistic personality disorder laces with a smidgen of schizophrenia. Your mother would be proud.
Darynda Jones
#46. You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
Mother Jones
#47. They held me and told me everything would be fine, that sadness would rise from our bones and evaporate in sunlight the way morning fog burned off the river in summer. My mother rubbed the kites on my hands and arms and told me to think of my lungs as balloons. I just want to feel safe, I said.
Shane Jones
#48. Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.
Beverly Jones
#50. But in Shimabukuro's hands, as he breaks out experimental jazz, lays down a steady blues train, or shreds on rock anthems, this little jumping flea becomes a melodic monster.
Mother Jones
#51. SOMETIMES I SYMPATHIZE WITH SIRIUS' MOTHER. I'D WANT TO BLAST YOU OFF MY FAMILY TREE TOO.
Birdy Jones
#52. My friends, it is solidarity of labor we want. We do not want to find fault with each other, but to solidify our forces and say to each other: We must be together; our masters are joined together and we must do the same thing.
Mother Jones
#53. I spent my earliest years in Colwyn Bay in north Wales with my mother and grandmother, while my father was stationed with the RAF in India.
Terry Jones
#54. His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to do so, though for long the direction this would take remained uncertain.
Ernest Jones
#56. There're lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I've got to make a record with my mother's voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I'm a baritone. She's a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.
Grace Jones
#57. My mother relied on her memory to do things because she couldn't read. Part of that was not really knowing numbers.
Edward P. Jones
#58. I was raised by a strong mother and I never felt like I had to be a role, you know, I was just me, who I am.
Rickie Lee Jones
#59. My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.
Mother Jones
#60. Cookie's cousin Lucille, for example. Or her second cousins. Or her uncle on her mother's side. Her whole family, in fact, was a Harvard study waiting to happen.
Darynda Jones
#61. When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
Quincy Jones
#62. I eat like a horse - my mother still brings me Cadbury's chocolate from Britain; I do have a very healthy appetite - but I work out.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#63. My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in first grade. But she couldn't afford the payments. I think it must have hurt her a lot, not to be able to give me a Catholic education.
Edward P. Jones
#64. The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!
Mother Jones
#65. Cookie saw him, too. "Holy mother of all things sexy," she said, her eyes drinking him in.
"Right there with ya.
Darynda Jones
#66. I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators.
Mother Jones
#67. My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.
Grace Jones
#68. The Romans did not see [the tale of Romulus, Remus and the she-wolf] as a charming story; they meant to show that they had imbibed wolfish appetites and ferocity with their mother's milk.
Terry Jones
#70. we saw a man walking in our midst who would have made James Bond feel insecure. Indiana Jones would have looked like a momma's boy compared to the man in the leather jacket with two days' growth of beard who walked to where my mother stood and then - horror of horrors - winked at her.
Ally Carter
#71. Unreadable. I've always said my mother is the biggest bitch on the hill, and the kindest flower in the garden.
Lisa Renee Jones
#72. My mother and I are more than best friends; we are partners in crime. After she and my father, Quincy Jones, separated when I was 10 years old, my sister, Kidada, who was 12, went to live with our dad, and I stayed with my mother.
Rashida Jones
#73. Two whores who finally found something to mother. A guy could write a book about it, he thought bitterly, call it From Hair To Maternity. It would probly be a very long book. Whores did not produce as fast as rabbits.
James Jones
#74. The employment of children is doing more to fill prisons, insane asylums, almshouses, reformatories, slums, and gin shops than all the efforts of reformers are doing to improve society.
Mother Jones
#75. There was in my mother's love of me something of the creative spirit of an artist -- it was her wish to produce me as a finished specimen framed in a perfect setting.
Belinda Jones
#76. I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
Felicity Jones
#77. far as I was concerned we were extremely lucky to have a mother who was so devoted, so encouraging, such fun - how ungrateful would it be to focus on a disappeared dad? Shouldn't we be glad for the good things?
Belinda Jones
#78. Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.
Felicity Jones
#79. If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.
Quincy Jones
#80. I'm sorry to have to tell you this way, but your mother and I are separating." When I pressed my mouth together, he corrected, "Stepmother. We're just - We're going in different directions."
"I don't know what to say, Dad. 'Hurray' just seems wrong.
Darynda Jones
#81. I've been interested in LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka's work for quite a while. My first introduction to LeRoi Jones was when my mother used to read me the 'Dead Lecturer' poems when I was a kid.
Rashid Johnson
#82. I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!
Mother Jones
#83. Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living
Mother Jones
#84. The realization that Garrett actually had a mother kind of disturbed me. But only for about twelve seconds. I rarely held thoughts in my head any longer than twelve seconds. Damn my ADD.
Darynda Jones
#85. I'm ashamed, this is my mama. No matter how fly my braids is, how I grease my skin, scalp, no matter how many jew'ries, this is my mother. -Said by Precious Jones in Push
Sapphire.
#86. When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor.
John Rhys-Davies
#87. A TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.
Mother Jones
#88. My husband used to shout at my mother, 'What is wrong with your daughter? I'm married to a man.'
Grace Jones
