Age Quote by Miles Franklin Download Open image “... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.” — Miles Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Age Mother No problem Old age Parenting Problem
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty,… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating. — Beatrice Wood Copy Share Image
My mother was a fine woman. But it couldn't have worked. Dad was such a macho guy and she was eight years older and… — Jack Hemingway Copy Share Image
My mother caught my ex-wife and sister's husband red handed, in compromising situations many times. — Raj Kundra Copy Share Image
My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy. — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Cowards always drag in the Bible to back theirselves up far more than proper people does. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
the way to wean any one from a desire is not by condemnation of it. — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand! — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called LOVE is a delirious inhuman state of mind:… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
“There is any amount of love and good in the world, but you must search for it. Being misunderstood is one of the trials… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
Men always say there is no female Shakespeare.' 'Humph! You study the fellows who say that, and you'll see they are a long way… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
When I first started writing, when I was 15, I would go to work with people and they would tell me my lyrics were… — Sabrina Claudio Copy Share Image
Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of… — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion. — Marion Jones Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
I am just enjoying the dream of being Milan coach at the age of 40. — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed. — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
I calculated that if I live up to the age of 80, then I end up using 450 toothbrushes in my life. All that… — Dia Mirza Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image