Mother Quote by Fannie Hurst Download Open image “[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.” — Fannie Hurst ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mother Parenting Wish
[On being asked in her later years if she were Tallulah:] I'm what's left of her, dahling. — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
“Not that Beulah didn't present her own set of problems. She did. Not least of which was fighting the temptation to fake some scribbles… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
[On her father:] ... in losing him I lost my greatest blessing and comfort, for he was always that to me. — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
“She was my mother and she would not leave me. This I had simply accepted and expected. I had no more thanked her for… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
She was such a good loving mother, my best friend. Oh, who was happier than I when I could still say the dear name… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“She had not been the sort to have cared about the naming of things that existed well without it…” — Thomm Quackenbush Copy Share Image
“Son, you were your mother's peace. You brought her so much peace and joy from the very first time she held you, that she… — Courtney Cole Copy Share Image
“Well, my sister, have some courage and heed your dreams, not your mother’s demands or what the gossips may say or expect you to… — Linda Lafferty Copy Share Image
[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames. — Joan of Arc Copy Share Image
Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing. — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose.… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
My mother was strong-willed, demanding, and very supportive all at the same time. — Michael Spence Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I would give anything to be able to kick a ball with my son or read the kids a bedtime story. — Rob Burrow Copy Share Image
One of the ways that I discovered my confidence and my ability to overpower is becoming a mother. Suddenly, my world wasn't about myself… — Lights Copy Share Image
Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans. — Mortimer Zuckerman Copy Share Image
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