Mother Quote by Naomi Shihab Nye Download Open image “Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.” — Naomi Shihab Nye ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Died Young Instantly Old Maybe Mother Mother Mother died Parenting Young
Can you imagine, I lost my mother at age six? My childhood ended then. — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people. — Cynthia Asquith Copy Share Image
I guess I can be surprised I'm alive. I'm taking a little better care of myself than when I was a young person. My… — Loudon Wainwright III Copy Share Image
When your mother dies in your arms, your perception of life changes. I think the whole thing is just a fleeting illusion. — Gaspar Noe Copy Share Image
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
One of the most surprising things in life is the sudden realization that one has become old — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“But I know we need to keep warm here on earth And when your shawl is as thin as mine is, you tell stories.” — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body, skins and moles and old scars, secret and public hair,… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“We walked where the ancient pier juts into the sea. Stood on the rim of the pool, by the circle of black boulders. No… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“rounded shoulders, the shoulders of women no one has touched for a long time. Men” — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I can never see fashion models, lean angular cheeks, strutting hips and blooming hair, without thinking of the skulls at the catacombs in Lima,… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I am looking for the human who admits his flaws Who shocks the adversary By being kinder not stronger What would that be like?… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Remembering your mistakes more acutely than any minor success. This was the worst. The things that kept you up at night. Tip a waiter… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Grief is an ambush. You’re walking along feeling fine, look down, see a leaf, and begin to weep. —Jack” — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
What did exclusivity ever have to offer but a distorted, unrealistic view of the world? People who stuck only to their own kind were… — Naomi Shihab Nye 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