Quotes by Mother My mother thought I would have a hard life as a painter. My father thought the highest thing a person could be was an architect. Below that was a painter. So he thought it was much better than being, say, a doctor. Alex Katz doctors mother father I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was 14 - with my mother's adult education art classes. She liked to paint and I went along as a life model. Alex Kingston mother class art My mother's the most special person in my life ... I consider her my MVP: Most Valuable Parent. Alex Rodriguez mvp parent mother Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor. Alex Steffen driven poor mother If you can't be in awe of Mother Nature, there's something wrong with you. Alex Trebek nature mother fear What goes 0-300 in less than 2 seconds? Your mother on a scale. Alex Trebek seconds scales mother My mother isn't particularly vain. Growing up with a parent who put emphasis on personality over looks was important. Alexa Chung growing-up personality mother I was raised by a very strict, good mother, so I wont be getting out of line anytime soon. Alexa Vega strict lines mother But sons have to be soldiers. And soldiers adapt. Alexander C. Irvine mother-son mother son I do chat to my mother in Norwegian, particularly when we want a secret conversation. It is useful that way. Alexander Hanson secret mother want What happened to me is that as I grew up, I found that I was smart. My mother had insisted on that you see. Oh, but I loved to play ball. I loved the physical aspect. So you have one leg in one field, and one leg in the other and you're nowhere. Alexander Lowen smart mother play Did any of you, parents, ever hear your child wake from sleep with some panic fear and shriek the mother's name through the darkness? Was not that a more powerful appeal than all words? And, depend upon it, that the soul which cries aloud on God, "the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ," though it have "no language but a cry," will never call in vain. Alexander MacLaren prayer mother jesus And how we become like our parents! How their scorned advice - based, we felt in our superiority, on prejudices and muddled folk wisdom - how their opinions are subsequently borne out by our own discoveries and sense of the world, one after one. And as this happens, we realise with increasing horror that proposition which we would never have entertained before: our mothers were right! Alexander McCall Smith parent mother discovery My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write. Alexander McCall Smith nice mother father Daughters could survive a powerful mother, but boys found it almost impossible. Such boys were often severely damaged and spent the rest of their lives running away from their mothers, or from anybody who remotely reminded them of their mothers; either that, or they became their mothers, in a desperate, misguided act of psychological self defence. Alexander McCall Smith daughter mother running Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove? Alexander Pope weed mother men The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night. Alexander Smith mother night children I came across an old story of mine that I'd written a decade ago. The main joke of the story is that a mother is telling her children about how she met their father online. The majority of memories the mother has all have to do with really funny links he sent her, a music download that she loved, etc. - and because of these superficial details she fell in love with the father. Reading it today, it's hardly a dystopian story; it's simply a realistic story about how people actually meet. Alexander Weinstein mother memories children I believe it stands for 'mother I'd like to...befriend. Alexandra Adornetto i-believe mother believe When I was little, I thought about becoming a lawyer like my parents, and my mother would always tell me, "You can do anything you want - except be a lawyer." Alexandra Daddario parent mother want «678910111213141516»