#mother

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#body #dancer #i #instrument #like

My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#any #bestow #care #cost #good

I feel betrayed by own mother. ↗

— Aaron Carter

#feel #i #i feel #mother #own

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#any #children #duties #fulfilling #heart

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cliff #fallen #good #his #man

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#forces #iraqi #iraqi forces #mother #retreats

'My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.' ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#country #desperate #drunk #ever #except

The mother must socialize her daughter to become subordinate to men, and if her daughter challenges patriarchal norms, the mother is likely to defend the patriarchal structures against her own daughters. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#become #challenges #daughter #daughters #defend

I have two sisters and a mother, obviously, so I grew up with a household of girls. Maybe I have a greater respect for women because of it. ↗

— Hayden Christensen

#greater #grew #household #i #maybe

Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way. ↗

— Steven Chu

#details #efficient #efficient way #focus #i